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New Books in African Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb

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Emilie Cloatre, “Pills for the Poorest: An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa” (Palgrave, 2013)

2015/2/9

Emilie Cloatre‘s award-winning book, Pills for the Poorest:An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Med

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, “Patrice Lumumba” (Ohio University Press, 2014)

2015/2/2

Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country’s first democratic

Elizabeth Schmidt, “Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

2015/1/21

Elizabeth Schmidt‘sForeign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge

Randy J. Sparks, “Where the Negroes Are Masters” (Harvard UP, 2014)

2015/1/1

A kind of biography of the town of Annamaboe, a major slave trading port on Africa’s Gold Coast, Ran

Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, “Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe” (MIT Press, 2014)

2014/12/14

Words have meaning. More specifically, the definitions attached to words shape our perspective on, a

Cathy L. Schneider, “Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)

2014/12/8

Cathy L. Schneider is the author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

Michelle Moyd, “Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa” (Ohio UP, 2014)

2014/12/4

In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Ever

Lisa L. Gezon, “Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective” (Left Coast Press, 2012)

2014/11/28

Khat, the fresh leaves of the plant Catha edulis, is a mild psycho-stimulant. It has been consumed i

Olufemi Taiwo, “Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto” (Indiana UP, 2014)

2014/11/6

Olufemi Taiwo‘s unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana Un

Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)

2014/10/30

Amy Evrard‘s first book, The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), exa

Ernest Harsch, “Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary” (Ohio UP, 2014)

2014/10/10

Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poor

Todd Cleveland, “Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds” (Ohio University Press, 2014)

2014/10/3

“Diamonds are forever” or “Blood diamonds”–the one a pithy marketing slogan showing how diamonds enc

Rebecca Rogers, “A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story” (Stanford UP, 2013)

2014/10/2

In the early 1830s, the French school teacher EugÃ©nie Luce migrated to Algeria. A decade later, she

Deborah Mayersen, “On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined” (Berghahn Books, 2014)

2014/9/23

I live and work in the state of Kansas in the US. We think of ourselves as living in tornado alley

What Do We Now Know About the Rwandan Genocide Twenty Years On?

2014/9/13

In 1994 I was in graduate school, trying hard to juggle teaching, getting started on my dissertation

Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

2014/7/30

Slavery was pervasive in the Ancient World: you can find it in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Samuel Totten, “Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan” (Transaction Publishers, 2012)

2014/7/18

Most of the authors I’ve interviewed for this show have addressed episodes in the past, campaigns of

Donovan Chau, “Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania” (NIP, 2014)

2014/7/7

Donovan Chau is the author of Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, an

James Copnall, “A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce” (Hurst, 2014)

2014/6/20

July 2011 saw that rarest of events – an attempt to resolve a conflict in Africa by the redrawing of

Susan Thomson, “Whispering Truth to Power” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)

2014/5/24

This spring, I taught a class loosely called “The Holocaust through Primary Sources” to a small grou