New Books in African Studies

784 Episodes

1. Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/16/2024
2. Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/9/2024
3. Amín Pérez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)

   Published: 11/9/2024
4. Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)

   Published: 11/6/2024
5. Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)

   Published: 11/5/2024
6. Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)

   Published: 11/2/2024
7. Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/17/2024
8. Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)

   Published: 10/15/2024
9. Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)

   Published: 10/13/2024
10. Migration, Constraints, and Suffering

    Published: 10/12/2024
11. Uroš Kovač, "The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon" (Berghahn Books, 2022)

    Published: 9/30/2024
12. Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 9/21/2024
13. Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)

    Published: 9/20/2024
14. Why Almost Everything You Think about Protests in Africa is Wrong

    Published: 9/19/2024
15. David Zeitlyn, "Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 9/7/2024
16. Aditi Malik, "Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 9/6/2024
17. Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/26/2024
18. Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

    Published: 8/26/2024
19. Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)

    Published: 8/18/2024
20. Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)

    Published: 8/18/2024