Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
When I saw Nwando Achebe‘s book The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana Universit
Imagine this: a young African girl, barefoot but wearing a dress and head wrap, clenches her fists a
Several months ago I interviewed Steve Bloomfield, the author of a book on African football, for New
Helen Tilley‘s new book Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scien
Raymond Jonas‘ The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Harvard UP, 2011) places Me
When was the last time you ate some chocolate? If you live in the developed world there’s a strong c
Much of the literature on modern Africa makes the unhappy comparison between hopes, especially upon
Aside from being aesthetically equated to Elizabeth Taylor, Cleopatra has not fared well in history.
We’ve dealt with the question of how racial categories and conceptions evolve on New Books in Histor
Few places can match the Djemaa el Fna in Marrakech for spectacle. As the shadows lengthen and dusk
A couple of days ago I had an unusual experience. I was staying in a hotel in Kampala, with a stunni
Globalisation has not passed Africa by. The recent boom in commodity prices has had a direct impact
In Chapter 3 of Erin Haney’s excellent book Photography and Africa (Reaktion Books, 2010) there are
Chances are, if you were one of the 700 million people who watched the 2010 World Cup, you likely he
In February 2002, British journalist James Brabazon set out to travel with guerrilla forces into Lib
Africans were the first migrants because they were the first people. Some 60,000 years ago they left
This is the first in a series of podcasts that New Books in History is offering in conjunction with
The thing about empire building is that when you’re done building one, you’ve got to figure out what
“Swords and Sandals” movies always amaze me. You know the ones I’m talking about: “Spartacus,” “Ben-
Every so often I read a book that reminds me that things weren’t at all what they appear to have bee
