New Books in African Studies

785 Episodes

1. Coups and the Threat of “Feel Good” Militarism in Africa

   Published: 9/15/2023
2. A Better Way to Buy Books

   Published: 9/12/2023
3. Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)

   Published: 9/11/2023
4. Jenna N. Hanchey, "The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 8/29/2023
5. Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)

   Published: 8/27/2023
6. Pedro Monaville, "Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo" (Duke UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/23/2023
7. Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)

   Published: 8/19/2023
8. Terrence Lyons, "The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)

   Published: 8/15/2023
9. Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 8/14/2023
10. Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)

    Published: 8/12/2023
11. Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

    Published: 8/11/2023
12. Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)

    Published: 8/8/2023
13. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)

    Published: 8/4/2023
14. Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/31/2023
15. India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa

    Published: 7/28/2023
16. Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/25/2023
17. Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/23/2023
18. António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)

    Published: 7/19/2023
19. Simona Berhe and Olindo de Napoli, "Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882-1943" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 7/13/2023
20. Dinah Hannaford, "Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care" (Stanford UP, 2023)

    Published: 7/7/2023