New Books in African Studies

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1
Michael W. Tuck, "The Castle Slaves of the Gamb...
60 min
2
Bimbola Akinbola, "Transatlantic Disbelonging: ...
62 min
3
Hilary Matfess, "After Liberation: Women and th...
48 min
4
Stephen Onyango Ouma, "Africa Unbound: Decoloni...
63 min
5
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in...
66 min
6
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African ...
58 min
7
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational ...
86 min
8
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Gl...
33 min
9
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black an...
44 min
10
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval...
49 min
11
Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in ...
48 min
12
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequ...
75 min
13
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate...
61 min
14
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, O...
45 min
15
Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and R...
An interview with Alice Wiemers
52 min
16
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
17
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
40 min
18
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscape...
63 min
19
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford U...
58 min
20
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Inte...
65 min
21
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, g...
53 min
22
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and ...
An interview with Florian Wagner
54 min
23
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins...
An interview with Peer Schouten
50 min
24
Todd Cleveland, "Africa and the Olympics: Winni...
33 min
25
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West Af...
51 min