Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Will Africa’s increasingly youthful population lead to new democratic and development breakthroughs?
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of pla
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated b
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive healt
Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conun
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2024) is a guide f
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource
An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present signi
Asaf Elia-Shalev's book Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
In Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (Unive
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global confl
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Depa
Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Ro
On May 29, South Africans voted in the seventh election since the end of political apartheid in the
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work inve
Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed the country’s presidential elections originally schedu
