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New Books in African Studies

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Michel Leiris, “Phantom Africa” (Seagull Books, 2017)

2017/12/20

Between 1931 and 1933, French writer Michel Leiris participated in a state-sponsored expedition to d

Hilary Matfess, “Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses” (Zed Books, 2017)

2017/12/18

Today we talked with Hilary Matfess about her new book Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapo

Sowande Mustakeem, “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage” (U. Illinois Press, 2016)

2017/12/14

Most scholars and members of the public believe the process of enslavement was confined to the Weste

Marie Grace Brown, “Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan” (Stanford UP, 2017)

2017/12/4

Marie Grace Brown’s Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Stanford Univer

Padraic Scanlan, “Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolutions” (Yale UP, 2017)

2017/12/4

What was the British abolition of the slave trade like in practice? Padraic Scanlan, in his beautifu

Stephane Robolin, “Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing” (U. Illinois Press, 2015)

2017/11/30

Writers have long created networks and connections by exchanging letters or writing back to one anot

Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017)

2017/11/28

Thanks to Scott Straus, Leanne Fujii and others, we know quite a bit about how men behaved during th

Gregory Mann, “From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Non-Governmentality” (Cambridge UP, 2014).

2017/11/17

Today we spoke to Gregory Mann about his book From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Ro

Keren Weitzberg, “We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya” (Ohio UP, 2017)

2017/11/14

Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the cou

Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)

2017/10/26

Regine Jean-Charles’ Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imagina

Anne C. Bailey, “The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2017/9/20

Contemporary conversations and debates over Confederate monuments underline how memory-making and th

Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)

2017/9/7

By drawing on a vast, never-utilized trove of archival materials along with oral histories, choreogr

Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)

2017/8/14

Michael Allan‘s In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton Uni

Michael Barnett, “Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2016)

2017/8/6

This podcast marks the beginning of a new occasional series of podcasts about the genocide in Rwanda

Adriana Helbig, “Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration” (Indiana UP, 2014)

2017/7/25

In 2004, during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Adriana Helbig saw African musicians rapping in Uk

Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)

2017/7/20

In his 1903 hit “Congo Love Song,” James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romanc

Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)

2017/7/13

In 218 BCE, the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca launched an invasion of Italy designed to bring

Sarah Ladipo Manyika, “Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun” (Cassava Republic Press, 2016)

2017/7/13

Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (Cassava Republic Pre

Sarah Eltantawi, “Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution” (U. California Press, 2017)

2017/7/12

Few images attached to Islam and to the Islamic legal tradition (the Sharia) in particular are more

Anita Hannig, “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

2017/7/10

Anita Hannig‘s first book, Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital (U