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Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
August 24, 2026
The Military Entertainment Complex
The Military Entertainment Complex: Chimurenga Afrosonic Making of Zimbabwe (MIT Press, 2026) by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero is the story of the making of pos…
August 20, 2026
The Poetics of Incivility
The Poetics of Incivility: Satire and Subversion in Modern Arab Culture (Cornell UP, 2026) explores impolite modes of expression—satire, crude humor, …
August 17, 2026
Newport Gardner's Anthem
Newport Gardner's Anthem: A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America (Cornell UP, 2025) explores the remarkable life of Occramer Mary…
August 14, 2026
Counterrevolution in Egypt
Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic (Verso Books, 2026) is a rare and comprehensive examination of the structures, hierarchies, and method…
August 5, 2026
Chasing Freedom
"In my home country, they call me a 'bornfree'." Simukai Chigudu was born in Zimbabwe, two years after the end of its bitter war of liberation - a war…
August 2, 2026
Soldiers and Bushmen
Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902 (Cambridge UP, 2025) by Dr. Thomas Richardson examines the commitment to what was…
August 2, 2026
Visualizing Egypt
Following Napoleon Bonaparte’s 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel and improvements in printing technology saw an emergence of publish…
July 25, 2026
Agrarian Superpower
The United States’ superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second Wor…
July 24, 2026
Fantômes de la révolution noire
Black Power! A name with a ring to it on both sides of the Atlantic, taken as a sign of Black American rage incarnated by a few names: Malcolm X, Stok…
July 21, 2026
Dream the Size of Freedom
Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrot…
July 21, 2026
Negotiating Childhood
Kelly M. Duke Bryant’s Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940 (U Mass Press, 2026)explores how colonial …
July 11, 2026
Forms of Blackness
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop …
June 25, 2026
Tunisia's Andalusians
Tunisia’s Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority (Edinburgh UP, 2025) tells the captivating story of those Andalusians, descen…
June 24, 2026
Escaping Justice
Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adhere…
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…