New Books in African Studies

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1
Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and R...
An interview with Alice Wiemers
52 min
2
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
3
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
40 min
4
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscape...
63 min
5
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford U...
58 min
6
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Inte...
65 min
7
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, g...
53 min
8
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and ...
An interview with Florian Wagner
54 min
9
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins...
An interview with Peer Schouten
50 min
10
Todd Cleveland, "Africa and the Olympics: Winni...
33 min
11
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West Af...
51 min
12
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Arch...
75 min
13
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The S...
33 min
14
Iain Jackson et. al., "Architecture, Empire, an...
37 min
15
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A Histo...
46 min
16
Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Pe...
41 min
17
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building ...
67 min
18
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Bet...
58 min
19
Jeffrey Ahlman, "Ghana: A Political and Social ...
An interview with Jeffrey Ahlman
38 min
20
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation...
54 min
21
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women an...
An interview with Lesley Nicole Braun
44 min
22
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolo...
An interview with Bernard Forjwuor
51 min
23
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became Afri...
An interview with Sara Byala
64 min
24
Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: T...
47 min
25
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A...
48 min