New Books in African Studies

785 Episodes

1. Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion" (Ohio UP, 2017)

   Published: 2/11/2020
2. Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)

   Published: 2/4/2020
3. Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)

   Published: 2/4/2020
4. K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)

   Published: 1/30/2020
5. Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine" (Duke UP, 2016)

   Published: 1/21/2020
6. Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)

   Published: 1/15/2020
7. Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front" (Random House, 2018)

   Published: 1/14/2020
8. Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)

   Published: 12/31/2019
9. Gillian Glaes, "African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare" (Routledge, 2018)

   Published: 12/31/2019
10. Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)

    Published: 12/27/2019
11. Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade" (U Penn Press, 2019)

    Published: 12/26/2019
12. Great Books: Manthia Diawara on Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"

    Published: 12/24/2019
13. K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Published: 12/23/2019
14. Miriam Driessen, "Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia" (Hong Kong UP, 2019)

    Published: 12/13/2019
15. Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)

    Published: 12/4/2019
16. Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

    Published: 12/3/2019
17. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

    Published: 12/2/2019
18. Adeline M. Masquelier, "Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

    Published: 11/20/2019
19. David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)

    Published: 11/18/2019
20. Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

    Published: 11/3/2019