Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium memb
Since Kenya's invasion of Somalia in 2011, the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with t
The road to Queen Elizabeth II’s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the firs
In The Ideological Scramble for Africa, Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1
In Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931 (Princeton UP, 2024), A. G. Hop
In An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo (Duke UP, 2024),
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and archi
Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in myster
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment.For
Utilizing Strategic Theory as a framework for warfare and incorporating the testimonies and experien
Thinking together the histories of European integration and African decolonization, Emily Marker's B
There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profou
This summer, sound artist and “guerrilla academic” Ben Coleman got in touch to say how much he enjoy
By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Af
Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period (Oxford UP, 2024) is a hi
Victim participation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has routinely been viewed as an empty
As climate crisis ensues, a transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent. However, some renewabl
The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press,
In this fascinating interview, Nathanael J. Homewood discusses his new book,Seductive Spirits: Deliv
Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and C
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly
