New Books in African Studies

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1
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African ...
58 min
2
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "Ìwà: the Process-Relational ...
86 min
3
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Gl...
33 min
4
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black an...
44 min
5
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval...
49 min
6
Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in ...
48 min
7
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequ...
75 min
8
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate...
61 min
9
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, O...
45 min
10
Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and R...
An interview with Alice Wiemers
52 min
11
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
12
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
40 min
13
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscape...
63 min
14
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford U...
58 min
15
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Inte...
65 min
16
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, g...
53 min
17
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and ...
An interview with Florian Wagner
54 min
18
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins...
An interview with Peer Schouten
50 min
19
Todd Cleveland, "Africa and the Olympics: Winni...
33 min
20
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West Af...
51 min
21
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Arch...
75 min
22
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The S...
33 min
23
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A Histo...
46 min
24
Iain Jackson et. al., "Architecture, Empire, an...
37 min
25
Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Pe...
41 min