New Books in African Studies
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Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Spa...
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Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Rev...
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia...
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Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globa...
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism...
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Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architec...
On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean...
85 min
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François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinocero...
What are the African Middle Ages? A place, certainly, and a time period, evidently. But also a “documentary regime,” argues François-Xavier Fauvelle...
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Stephanie Newell, "Histories of Dirt: Media and...
Newell, along with a team of researchers across a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, explore this idea of “dirt” across the long 20th century...
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
20 min
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Anais Angelo, "Power and the Presidency in Keny...
Angelo’s book analyses the little-studied institution of the Office of the President by studying its first postcolonial office-holder in Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.,,
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Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery ac...
Ali provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar...
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Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
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Sana Aiyar, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of ...
Aiyer investigates how Indian diasporic actors influenced the course of Kenya’s political history, from partnering with Europeans in their colonial mission in East Africa to political solidarity with Africans in their anticolonial struggles....
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
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Jacob Mundy, "Libya" (Polity Press, 2018)
Mundy's book is part-history, part-political science to guide readers through the intricate maze of foreign and Libyan actors and institutions that define modern day Libya...
62 min
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Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nati...
Schauer explains how this global attention to African wildlife evolved from late nineteenth century to the present...
48 min
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Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterra...
A history of the "middle sea" from prehistory to today....
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Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Wom...
Johnson explores the nature of these complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....
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Hideaki Suzuki, "Slave Trade Profiteers in the ...
Suzuki provides an insightful perspective to the growing scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery by shifting focus onto those who profited from the slave trade...
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Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of t...
Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....
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Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The...
Wright maps the intellectual history of the largest Sufi order in West and North Africa, the Tijaniyya...
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Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean Worl...
Palat counters eurocentric notions of long-term historical change by drawing upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation...
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Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Micke...
Talton a transnational history that explores the influence of African American leaders on US foreign policy towards Africa in the 1980s....
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Erik Gellman, "Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom S...
What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it?
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Charles Piot, "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicl...
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession...
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Nwando Achebe, "Female Monarchs and Merchant Qu...
Nwando Achebe considers the diverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical and spiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicity of distinct African societies...
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N. Achebe and C. Robertson, "Holding the World ...
The contributors explore everything from issues of representation in novels and cinema, to political organizing, religious fundamentalism, slavery, love, and sexuality....
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