785 Episodes

  1. Toby Green, “The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

    Published: 7/30/2014
  2. Samuel Totten, “Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan” (Transaction Publishers, 2012)

    Published: 7/18/2014
  3. Donovan Chau, “Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania” (NIP, 2014)

    Published: 7/7/2014
  4. James Copnall, “A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce” (Hurst, 2014)

    Published: 6/20/2014
  5. Susan Thomson, “Whispering Truth to Power” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)

    Published: 5/24/2014
  6. Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)

    Published: 4/10/2014
  7. Sean D. Murphy et al., “Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission” (Oxford UP, 2013)

    Published: 4/6/2014
  8. Ellen J. Amster, “Medicine and the Saints” (University of Texas Press, 2013)

    Published: 3/16/2014
  9. Xolela Mangcu, “Biko: A Life” (Tauris, 2013)

    Published: 1/25/2014
  10. Jennie Burnet, “Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)

    Published: 12/27/2013
  11. Jennifer Sessions, “By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria” (Cornell UP, 2011)

    Published: 12/21/2013
  12. Gabrielle Hecht, “Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade” (MIT Press, 2012)

    Published: 11/10/2013
  13. Lidwien Kapteijns, “Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

    Published: 10/16/2013
  14. Simon P. Newman, “A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)

    Published: 10/10/2013
  15. John K. Thornton, “A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820” (Cambridge UP, 2012).

    Published: 9/12/2013
  16. Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann (editors), “Africa’s World Cup: Critical Reflections on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space” (University of Michigan Press, 2013)

    Published: 9/5/2013
  17. Elizabeth Foster, “Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940” (Stanford University Press, 2013)

    Published: 6/26/2013
  18. Lee Ann Fujii, “Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2009)

    Published: 12/21/2012
  19. Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)

    Published: 11/14/2012
  20. Martin Plaut and Paul Holden, “Who Rules South Africa?” (Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012)

    Published: 11/7/2012

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