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African Studies
Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
June 21, 2026
Privileged Minorities
Mesrob Vartavarian has written a wonderful book. Privileged Minorities: A History of Wealth Concentration on South Africa (Ohio UP, 2026) argues that…
June 19, 2026
Mandela's Leadership Legacy
In Mandela’s Leadership Legacy: Emotional and Existential Wisdom (Routledge, 2026) Steven Segal explores Nelson Mandela’s extraordinary ability to lea…
June 19, 2026
The Vast Oceans
Youssef J. Carter’s The Vast Oceans: Remembering Allah and Self on the Mustafawiyya Sufi Path (UNC Press, 2026) is a stunning meditation on Black Atla…
June 14, 2026
A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight …
June 9, 2026
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture
Reclaiming Colonial Architecture (Routledge, 2024) explores the built inheritance of colonialism and considers how architects, heritage practitioners,…
June 5, 2026
Rwanda's Genocide Heritage
Delia Duong Ba Wendel, Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty, Duke University Press, 2025. In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage, Del…
May 28, 2026
After Barbary
After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Timothy Mason Roberts explores the connectio…
May 18, 2026
Exit from International Organizations
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? Wha…
May 18, 2026
Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World
In a world marked by increasingly destructive ecological and meteorological upheavals, Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster,…
May 11, 2026
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams
Samiha Rahman’s Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Pan-Africanism, and Collective Care (New York University Press, 2026) follows three ge…
May 11, 2026
Young People and Democracy in Africa
What explains the growing tension between young people and democracy in Africa? Why are some increasingly frustrated, disengaged, or even open to auth…
May 10, 2026
The Noise Silence Makes
In The Noise Silence Makes: Secularity and Ghana's Drum Wars (Duke UP, 2025) Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, s…
May 7, 2026
Place Presents Itself To You in Fragments
How to write about place is a question that cuts across the career of the South African Ivan Vladislavić. The questions of place and space are pressin…
May 5, 2026
Analogue Africa
Jeremy Harding has long been one of the premier essayists and journalists of our day. Elegant, committed and free of cant, Harding's writing has often…
May 2, 2026
Atlas's Bones
A major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer.…
April 29, 2026
Racializing the Ummah
Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians Beyond Black, Brown and White (U Minnesota Press, 2026) is an ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the larg…
April 26, 2026
The Burning Ground
Noo Saro-Wiwa is an author and journalist. Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and raised in England, she attended King's College London and Columbia Univ…
April 8, 2026
The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River
In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian Dr. Michae…
April 6, 2026
Transatlantic Disbelonging
In Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women's Art (Duke University Press, 2025), Bimbola Akinbola redirec…
April 5, 2026
After Liberation
War offers opportunities for women to liberate their communities and build a better life for themselves. When women join rebel groups, they often take…