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African Studies
Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
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
Africa Unbound
I had a substantive conversation with Dr. Stephen Onyango Ouma, author of Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation (Brill, 20…
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…
March 31, 2026
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa
The African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and B…
March 29, 2026
Forest Imaginaries
Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the fo…
March 29, 2026
Cinema before the World
Cinema Before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers (Fordham UP, 2026) investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing…
March 29, 2026
Ìwà: the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics
Correction: In the interview, the host mistakenly mentioned that Prof. Ofuasia is teaching the University of Pretoria. In reality, Prof Ofuasia is cur…
March 27, 2026
Worlds of Islam
From its birth in seventh-century Arabia, Islam has been a faith on the move. In Worlds of Islam: A Global History (Basic Books, 2026), James McDougal…
March 24, 2026
Socialist De-Colony
Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana won its political independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. It precipitated both the dying spiral of c…
March 21, 2026
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt
What did slavery actually look like in the everyday lives of Jews in the medieval Middle East? In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with histori…
March 20, 2026
Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts
In Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts (Cornell UP, 2026), Dr. Maria A. Sanchez tackles a central tension in global governance: h…
March 15, 2026
Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana
In Ghana, much as in other parts of the Global South, postcolonial leaders aimed for industrial growth through the establishment of affordable hydroel…
March 13, 2026
Black Power, Inc.
Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics, (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), traces the rise of Black empowe…
March 11, 2026
The Containment
In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school desegregation across…
March 11, 2026
Black Climates
Brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. Globally, Black people are among the most affected by the climate crisis,…
February 28, 2026
Village Work
Most development histories focus on large-scale projects and multi-year plans. But how would we understand development differently if we chose a diffe…
February 28, 2026
Slave Owners of West Africa
In today's podcast we talked to Dr. Sandra Greene about her book Slave Owners of West Africa. Decision Making in the Age of Abolition published in 201…
February 25, 2026
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
In 2024, Senegal faced a severe constitutional and electoral crisis. The presidential vote was postponed, tensions escalated, and fears of democratic …
February 21, 2026
The Plantation Ideal
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered…
February 16, 2026
African Climate Futures
This episode is brought to you by the BISA Environment and Climate Politics Working Group. African Climate Futures (Oxford UP, 2025) shows how clima…