Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Today I talked to Stuart Reid about his new book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and
Christopher Tounsel's book Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solida
Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-war Statebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2024) by D
Newspaper (Bloomsbury, 2024) by Dr. Maggie Messitt is about more than news printed on paper. It brin
Zvenyika Eckson Mugari's book Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and
Boubacar N’Diaye's book Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and De
As the U.S. population ages and as health care needs become more complex, demand for paid care worke
Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya (University of Toronto Press,
In The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet
What does living “precariously” mean in Casablanca? In 2014 it meant being labeled tcharmil (seeming
Today’s book is: 100 Years of Radio in South Africa, Volume 1: South African Radio Stations and Broa
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separatio
Over the last two decades, historians have steadily moved away from writing longue durée national hi
Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640 (University of Texas Press,
Maarten Couttenier's Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) (Routledge, 2023) ex
In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of internat
Just a decade ago, before COVID upended everything, tens of thousands of migrants from African count
Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: Emerging from the Margins (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023)
Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell UP, 2024) answers a stra
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of
