Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers,
Cars promise freedom, autonomy, and above all, movement but leave whole cities stuck in traffic, bre
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one. Because
In her new book, The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (Wayne State Un
Today’s Namibia was once the German colony of South West Africa, for a 30-year period spanning of 18
Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the
In his new book, The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African B
There's so much discussion in the contemporary United States about marijuana. Debates focus on legal
Joseph Hill's new book Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senega
When President Trump talked of Africa as a continent of “shithole countries” where people lived in h
In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty. He had arrived ove
Madagascar lies so close to the African coast--and so near the predictable wind system of the Indian
Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to
For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another. M
To our eyes, eighteenth-century Britain can look like a world of opposites. On one hand everything w
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his
Last month Rwanda commemorated the 25th anniversary of the genocide. Unlike the recent outpouring o
Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because
Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens (Oxford University Press, 2019) is the
Are you tired of the constant refrain from our campus radicals and their bien-pensant allies in the
