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Medicine
June 29, 2022
Partial Stories
Maternal Death from Six Angles
Claire L. Wendland
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Rachel Pagones
A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in …
African Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
African Studies
June 21, 2022
Shari'a, Inshallah
Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
Mark Fathi Massoud
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Sara Katz
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different story: for nearly 150 years, the Somali people …
African Studies
June 21, 2022
Emirs in London
Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity
Moses E. Ochonu
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Sara Katz
Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity (Indiana UP, 2022) recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience …
African Studies
June 17, 2022
Fashioning Postfeminism
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
Simidele Dosekun
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Gummo Clare
Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media …
Biology and Evolution
June 14, 2022
Sloth Lemur's Song
Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
Alison F. Richard
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Galina Limorenko
Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant flightless …
Environmental Studies
June 10, 2022
When the Sahara Was Green
How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
Martin Williams
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Galina Limorenko
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed …
African Studies
June 8, 2022
Roadblock Politics
The Origins of Violence in Central Africa
Peer Schouten
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Susan Thomson
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa (Cambridge, 2022). Schouten mapped more than 100 …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast
June 1, 2022
Until We Have Won Our Liberty
South Africa After Apartheid
Evan Lieberman
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Mark Klobas
At a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid (Princeton UP, 2022) shines new light on the …
Islamic Studies
May 27, 2022
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
Ariela Marcus-Sells
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Shobhana Xavier
In Sorcery or Science? Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022) Ariela Marcus-Sells examines two Sufi Muslim theologians, known as Kunta scholars …
African Studies
May 26, 2022
'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders
The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School
Shoko Yamada
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Elisa Prosperetti
The Prince of Wales College, Achimota School, opened in 1927 north of Accra in the Gold Coast (Ghana). Achimota was to be a ‘model’ school—but a model of what, exactly …
Anthropology
May 18, 2022
Waste Worlds
Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability
Jacob Doherty
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Sneha Annavarapu
Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability (U California Press …
African Studies
May 17, 2022
My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Sally Hayden
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Miranda Melcher
Late one night, journalist Sally Hayden received an urgent message on Facebook: “Sally, we need your help.” It was from a group of Eritrean refugees who had been held in …
General History
May 17, 2022
Blood and Bronze
The British Empire and the Sack of Benin
Paddy Docherty
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Miranda Melcher
The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum’s most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once …
Political Science
May 16, 2022
When There Was No Aid
War and Peace in Somaliland
Sarah G. Phillips
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Lamis Abdelaaty
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by …
African Studies
May 11, 2022
Africa’s Joola Shipwreck
Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster
Karen Samantha Barton
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Ari Barbalat
In 2002, a government-owned Senegalese ferry named the Joola capsized in a storm off the coast of The Gambia in a tragedy that killed 1,863 people and left 64 survivors …
Indian Ocean World
May 11, 2022
Dockside Reading
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr
Hosted by
Kelvin Ng
In Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House (Duke University Press, 2022), Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British …
Critical Theory
May 6, 2022
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski
The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century
Dhanveer Singh Brar
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Gummo Clare
Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early 21st Century (Goldsmiths Press, 2021) uses three Black electronic musics – footwork, grime, and the work of the …
General History
May 6, 2022
The Seventh Member State
Algeria, France, and the European Community
Megan Brown
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Miranda Melcher
In The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community (Harvard University Press, 2022), Dr. Megan Brown details the surprising story of how Algeria joined and then left the …
African Studies
May 5, 2022
Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa
Protection First and Justice Later
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau
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Christopher Davey
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from these disasters came an international commitment to safeguard …
Sports
May 4, 2022
African Football Migration
Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories
Paul Darby, James Esson, and Christian Ungruhe
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Miranda Melcher
The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of …
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