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African Studies
Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
July 24, 2024
Nothing But Nets
Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria contr…
July 22, 2024
Jams Bond
In an unusual episode, we listen back to field recordings that co-host cris cheek made in 1987 and 1993 on the island of Madagascar. It’s a rich sonic…
July 15, 2024
A Fistful of Shells
All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Ris…
July 8, 2024
Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique
Explaining how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties, this book offers a detailed examination of peace proce…
July 2, 2024
Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice.…
July 1, 2024
Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga
Dr. Langmia's book Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga (Anthem Press, 2024) examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry…
June 26, 2024
Life in a New Language
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…
June 25, 2024
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History
A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles (Duke UP, 2024) is a guide for college and high school educators who are teach…
June 25, 2024
Rainforest Capitalism
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. H…
June 20, 2024
PhDing While Parenting
An increasing number of students worldwide attend graduate school while simultaneously navigating a variety of competing responsibilities in their per…
June 14, 2024
DIY Urbanism in Africa
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urb…
June 7, 2024
Israel's Black Panthers
Asaf Elia-Shalev's book Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth (U California Press, 2024) tells the story of the…
June 6, 2024
Seeding Empire
In Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa (University of California Press, 2024), Dr. Aaron Eddens…
June 6, 2024
Caribbean Vectors
The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t u…
June 3, 2024
Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Tech, about her work on the history…
May 31, 2024
South Africa Goes to the Polls
On May 29, South Africans voted in the seventh election since the end of political apartheid in the early 1990s. This is the first election in which t…
May 31, 2024
Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives
Polo B. Moji's book Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives (Routledge, 2022) approaches the study of AfroEurope …
May 30, 2024
The Conflict in Sudan
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belon…
May 29, 2024
Democratic Crisis in Senegal
Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed the country’s presidential elections originally scheduled for February 25. It's part of a series of conc…
May 19, 2024
The Lumumba Plot
Today I talked to Stuart Reid about his new book The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Knopf, 2023). It was s…