Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profou
This summer, sound artist and “guerrilla academic” Ben Coleman got in touch to say how much he enjoy
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Af
Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period (Oxford UP, 2024) is a hi
Victim participation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has routinely been viewed as an empty
As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewabl
The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press,
In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliv
Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and C
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly
In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwin
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025) is the essenti
Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to
New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization (UP of Florida, 2017) examines the mo
With Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambri
In Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke UP, 2024), Samuel Fury Childs Daly te
How did the Algerian war of independence shape contemporary sociology? In Bourdieu and Sayad Against
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were
A note about content:This episode involves discussion of suicide, specifically in the contexts of sl
In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the compl
