Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million people every year; experts believe
Of all the blank spots in the mental maps of many Americans, Africa is one of the largest. Informed
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the act
Kathleen Keller’s new book, Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Int
Histories of African nationalism and decolonization have often assumed that political ideas such as
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider pub
Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniqu
How do you put Humpty-Dumpty back together again?Susan Thomson's new book Rwanda: From Genocide to P
Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (University of California Press, 2018) by
The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, i
At this point, it is hard to fathom the shear volume of studies of American slavery that scholars ha
The most recent addition to Baylor University Press’s Studies in World Christianity is Christianity
Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World(University of Californi
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Sco
In his book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford U
Despite enduring for nearly five centuries, the Roman Republic ended in a series of crises and wars
A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Mor
Today we talked with Ching Kwan Lee, professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Ang
