New Books in African Studies
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Jelmer Vos, "Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1...
An interview with Jelmer Vos
78 min
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Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press...
An interview with Juliane Okot Bitek
28 min
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Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialis...
An interview with Łukasz Stanek
41 min
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Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: ...
An interview with Tiffany N. Florvil
52 min
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Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Con...
Interview with Steven Press
59 min
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Matthew Gavin Frank, "Flight of the Diamond Smu...
An interview with Matthew Gavin Frank
54 min
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Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: ...
An interview with Becky L. Schulthies
56 min
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C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Developm...
An interview with Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon
67 min
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Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the Afric...
An Interview with Steven Serels
57 min
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Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabw...
An interview with Tara McIndoe-Calder
45 min
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Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar...
An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
61 min
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Narrating Africa in South Asia
An interview with Mahmood Kooria, Khatija Khader, and Sofia Péquignot
98 min
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Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landsc...
An interview with Constance Smith
64 min
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Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental t...
An interview with Anne Garland Mahler
31 min
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Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires i...
An interview with Beatrice Nicolini and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
54 min
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Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lus...
What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense?
53 min
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Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili ...
Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood....
102 min
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Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: Th...
Mills explores the beginnings and ends of the colonization movement from the late-18th century to the coming of the Civil War...
44 min
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Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
41 min
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Marissa J. Moorman, "Powerful Frequencies: Radi...
Moorman narrates Angolan history with the radio at its center...
61 min
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Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: A...
Paradis explores the myriad ways in which the Sudan, whose internal politics were influenced and shaped by Britain...
30 min
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Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Intern...
Swan illuminates the social life of Black Power politics across the African diaspora from the 1950s through the 1980s...
95 min
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Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embody...
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
45 min
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Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Wes...
In the period c. 1880-1940, organized Sufism spread rapidly in the western Indian Ocean. New communities turned to Islam, and Muslim communities turned to new texts, practices, and religious leaders...
94 min
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Ned Bertz, "Diaspora and Nation in the Indian O...
The vibrant Swahili coast port city of Dar es Salaam—literally, the “Haven of Peace”—hosts a population reflecting a legacy of long relations with the Arabian Peninsula and a diaspora emanating in waves from the Indian subcontinent...
63 min