Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Cristina Brito's book Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa (Amsterdam Unive
States are often minimally present in the rural periphery. Yet a limited presence does not mean a li
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (
In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent re
In this highly original book Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans,
Where there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply res
How can territory and peoples be organized? After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state t
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World (University of California Press, 2022) b
Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity (Anthem Press, 2024) is written for those who ar
The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (Cambridge Univers
Ever since World War II, the United Nations and other international actors have created laws, treati
During the “global land grab” of the early twenty-first century, legions of investors rushed to Afri
Wisdom From the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times (Cornell University Press, 2023) descri
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work inve
In this episode of Ufahamu Africa, cohost Kim Yi Dionne presents on the state of democracy in Malawi
During the eighteenth century, Britain’s slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geograph
In White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation (Routledge
Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid So
