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African Studies
August 17, 2022
From Rebels to Rulers
Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
Paul Naylor
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Sara Katz
Sokoto was the largest and longest lasting of West Africa's nineteenth-century Muslim empires. Its intellectual and political elite left behind a vast written record, including over 300 Arabic texts authored …
African Studies
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Interviews with scholars of Africa about their new books.
On Religion
August 16, 2022
On Vodun, Voodoo, and the Movies
A Discussion with Emily Crews
Emily Crews
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Gregory Soden
Emily Crews is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her dissertation project traces the relationship between movement and identity formation in the …
General History
August 16, 2022
Building States
The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965
Eva-Maria Muschik
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Miranda Melcher
Postwar multilateral cooperation is often viewed as an attempt to overcome the limitations of the nation-state system. However, in 1945, when the United Nations was founded, large parts of the …
General History
August 12, 2022
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Jeremy Black
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Charles Coutinho
The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In A Brief History of the Atlantic (Robinson, 2022), Jeremy …
African Studies
August 12, 2022
When Soldiers Rebel
Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa
Kristen A. Harkness
Hosted by
Andrew Miller
Military coups are a constant threat in Africa and many former military leaders are now in control of 'civilian states', yet the military remains understudied, especially over the last decade …
British Studies
August 10, 2022
Built on the Ruins of Empire
British Military Assistance and African Independence
Blake Whitaker
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Miranda Melcher
During the Cold War, the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 3, 2022
Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Yaniv Voller
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Dilan Okcuoglu
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, In Second-Generation Liberation Wars Cambridge UP, 2022),Yaniv …
Middle Eastern Studies
August 1, 2022
The Italian Empire and the Great War
Vanda Wilcox
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Roberto Mazza
The Italian Empire and the Great War (Oxford UP, 2021) by Vanda Wilcox brings an imperial and colonial perspective to the Italian experience of the First World War. Italy's decision for …
British Studies
July 25, 2022
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
Maeve Ryan
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Joseph Krulder
Maeve Ryan’s new book Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System (Yale UP, 2022) highlights Britain’s early-nineteenth-century, Royal Navy seizures of slave ships and the processes involved in the “liberation” of …
Catholic Studies
July 19, 2022
The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Between Grief and Denial
Philippe Denis
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Allison Isidore
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,000 people in three months between …
On Religion
July 15, 2022
Visions of Zion
Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land
Erin C. MacLeod
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Gregory Soden
In reggae song after reggae song Bob Marley and other reggae singers speak of the Promised Land of Ethiopia. "Repatriation is a must!" they cry. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since …
Grinnell College: Authors and Artists
July 15, 2022
Signs of the Spirit
Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
Tony Perman
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Marshall Poe
In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people …
General History
July 7, 2022
Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
Florian Wagner
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Elisa Prosperetti
Today I talked to Florian Wagner about his new book Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 (Cambridge UP, 2022). From its founding in 1893, to its decline in the …
Jewish Studies
July 4, 2022
Recording History
Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa
Christopher Silver
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Avery Weinman
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford UP, 2022) offers a new history of twentieth-century North Africa, one that gives voice to the musicians who defined …
American West
July 4, 2022
The Chinese Question
The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai
Hosted by
Stephen Hausmann
Between 1848 and 1899, miners extracted more gold from the earth than in the previous 3,000 years of human history combined. Each gold rush in this period, from the Sierra …
Medicine
June 29, 2022
Partial Stories
Maternal Death from Six Angles
Claire L. Wendland
Hosted by
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
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 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 17, 2022
Fashioning Postfeminism
Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture
Simidele Dosekun
Hosted by
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 …
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