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New Books in African Studies
Adeline M. Masquelier, “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Adeline M. Masquelier
Fada
Boredom and Belonging in Niger
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Bhoomika Joshi

Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger (University of Chicago Press 2019) is a study of the kinds of experimentation and creative engagements that young men in the urban public spaces of Niger undertake when confronted with the precarity and boredom of unemployed adult life. “The sitting that kills the pants”... Read More
David Wheat, “Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640” (UNC Press, 2016)
David Wheat
Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

University of North Carolina Press, 2016

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network November 18, 2019 Lisette Varón Carvajal

David Wheat’s fantastic book Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean. For Wheat, the history of the region is entangled with older and deeper... Read More
Naleli Morojele, “Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa: Narratives of Triumph and Loss” (Barbara Budrich, 2016)
Naleli Morojele
Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa
Narratives of Triumph and Loss
Barbara Budrich, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 23, 2019 Diana Dukhanova

Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years. Through interviews with eleven women who have held formal political leadership since 1994 in Rwanda and South Africa, Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and... Read More
Henning Melber, “Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa” (Hurst, 2019)
Henning Melber
Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa

Hurst, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in BiographyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 21, 2019 Zeb Larson

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.” Only the second person to hold that post when he was elected, Hammarskjold did a great deal to shape perceptions of the UN. Consequently, evaluations of his legacy have tended... Read More
Rita Kesselring, “Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Rita Kesselring
Bodies of Truth
Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Stanford University Press, 2017

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 17, 2019 Susan Thomson

Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seeks to understand the embodied and everyday effects of state-sponsored violence as well the limits of the law to produce social repair. Of particular interest in Kesselring’s theorizing of the relationship... Read More
Jennifer L. Derr, “The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt” (Stanford UP, 2019)
Jennifer L. Derr
The Lived Nile
Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt
Stanford University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 10, 2019 Lukas Rieppel

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt’s relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia and filling the irrigation canals that flowed from the river, the perennial Nile not only reshaped agriculture and the environment, but also Egypt’s colonial... Read More
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, “What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
What We Need Ourselves
How Food Has Shaped African American Life
Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 18, 2019 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Jennifer Jensen Wallach about the her book Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). The book covers a wide chronology and geography from the continent of Africa pre-Transatlantic slave trade to lunch... Read More
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