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1
Young People and Democracy in Africa: Between E...
55 min
2
Samiha Rahman, "Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Is...
78 min
3
Mariam Goshadze, "The Noise Silence Makes: Secu...
56 min
4
Place Presents Itself To You in Fragments: Ivan...
39 min
5
Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the ...
49 min
6
D. Vance Smith, "Atlas’s Bones: The African Fou...
66 min
7
Oil and Militancy in Nigeria: A Conversation wi...
0 min
8
Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gamb...
60 min
9
Bimbola Akinbola, "Transatlantic Disbelonging: ...
62 min
10
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and th...
48 min
11
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decoloni...
63 min
12
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in...
66 min
13
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African ...
58 min
14
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational ...
86 min
15
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Gl...
33 min
16
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black an...
44 min
17
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval...
49 min
18
Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in ...
48 min
19
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequ...
75 min
20
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate...
61 min
21
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, O...
45 min
22
Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and R...
An interview with Alice Wiemers
52 min
23
Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa:...
In today’s podcast we talked to Dr. Sandra Greene about her book Slave Owners of West Africa. Decision Making in the Age of Abolition published in 2017 by Indiana University Press. In this book Dr. Greene presents us with the biographies of three indiv...
39 min
24
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
40 min
25
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscape...
63 min