New Books in African Studies
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Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: ...
An interview with Tiffany N. Florvil
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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
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C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Developm...
An interview with Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon
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Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the Afric...
An Interview with Steven Serels
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Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabw...
An interview with Tara McIndoe-Calder
45 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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Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar...
An interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida
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Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landsc...
An interview with Constance Smith
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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?
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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...
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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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Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagin...
An interview with Antoinette Burton
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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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Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embody...
Balogun takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Christopher J. Lee, "Making a World After Empir...
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world...
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S. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Bi...
The Republic of Biafra lasted for less than three years, but the war over its secession would contort Nigeria for decades to come...
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Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pear...
This book examines the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries...
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