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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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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

2014/4/10

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare‘s wonderful new book is a thoughtful, provocative, and balanced account of th

Sean D. Murphy et al., “Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission” (Oxford UP, 2013)

2014/4/6

Professor Sean D. Murphy is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at George Washingt

Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints” (University of Texas Press, 2013)

2014/3/16

What is the interplay between the physical human body and the body politic? This question is at the

Xolela Mangcu, “Biko: A Life” (Tauris, 2013)

2014/1/25

Host Jonathan Judaken speaks with Xolela Mangcu, biographer of Anti-Apartheid leader Steve Biko, abo

Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)

2013/12/27

In our fast-paced world, it is easy to move from one crisis to another. Conflicts loom in rapid succ

Jennifer Sessions, “By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria” (Cornell UP, 2011)

2013/12/21

Early modern European imperialism is really pretty easy to understand. Spain, Portugal, England, Fra

Gabrielle Hecht, “Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade” (MIT Press, 2012)

2013/11/10

We tend to understand the nuclear age as a historical break, a geopolitical and technological ruptur

Lidwien Kapteijns, “Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

2013/10/16

Lidwien Kapteijns is author of Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (University of

Simon P. Newman, “A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

2013/10/10

Ask most educated people about the development of American slavery, and you’re likely to hear someth

John K. Thornton, “A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820” (Cambridge UP, 2012).

2013/9/12

Thanks in no small part to John K. Thornton, professor of history at Boston University, the field of

Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)

2013/9/5

In 2010, for the first time, an African nation hosted the FIFA World Cup. The advertisements surroun

Elizabeth Foster, “Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940” (Stanford University Press, 2013)

2013/6/26

How did French colonial administrators, missionaries, and different groups of Africans interact with

Lee Ann Fujii, “Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2009)

2012/12/21

The question Lee Ann Fujii asks in her new book Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda (Corne

Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)

2012/11/14

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa

Martin Plaut and Paul Holden, “Who Rules South Africa?” (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012)

2012/11/7

Anybody who has been following the news in recent months knows that bloodshed has returned to South

Jason Brownlee, “Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

2012/10/28

In Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance (Cambridge University Press, 201

Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb, “Religion and AIDS in Africa” (Oxford UP, 2012)

2012/10/16

The liberal media in the Western World takes a firm line on how two of the big issues facing Africa

Sandra Chait, “Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest” (University of Washington Press, 2011)

2012/9/18

In the Pacific Northwest, immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia coexist, making a life for t

Bruce Whitehouse, “Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging” (Indiana UP, 2012)

2012/8/17

Every so often a book lands on my desk about something so obviously interesting that I have never re

Steve Kemper, “Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa” (Norton, 2012)

2012/7/20

Three years ago I travelled overland with my wife from Victoria Falls through Zambia, Malawi, Mozamb