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About Jim Lance
NBN Episodes hosted by Jim:
May 1, 2015
Tales from a Muzungu
Tales from a Muzungu (Peace Corps Writers, 2014) relates a Peace Corps Volunteer's experiences living and working inUganda. Mixing keen observation, s…
April 17, 2015
An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World
Mariana Candido's book An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World. Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is a powerful an…
February 2, 2015
Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister, in what is today the …
January 21, 2015
Foreign Intervention in Africa
Elizabeth Schmidt's Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013) depicts the foreign poli…
December 4, 2014
Violent Intermediaries
In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio Unive…
November 6, 2014
Africa Must be Modern
Olufemi Taiwo's unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana University Press, 2014), confronts the reluctance, i…
October 10, 2014
Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination d…
October 3, 2014
Stones of Contention
"Diamonds are forever" or "Blood diamonds"--the one a pithy marketing slogan showing how diamonds encapsulate enduring love and commitment and the oth…