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About Bekeh Utietiang

Bekeh Ukelina is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center of Gender and Intercultural Studies at State University of New York, Cortland. Twitter: @bekeh/ Instagram @mwalimuwakusafiri/

NBN Episodes hosted by Bekeh:

South Asian Studies July 5, 2022

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics

Nilanjana Paul

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
In this episode, Dr. Nilanjana Paul of the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley speaks about her new monograph, Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854-1947: A Study of Curriculum, Educational …
African Studies July 16, 2020

No More to Spend

Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care

Luke Messac

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
Dismal spending on government health services is often considered a necessary consequence of a low per-capita GDP, but are poor patients in poor countries really fated to be denied the …
African Studies April 10, 2019

Apartheid Guns and Money

A Tale of Profit

Hennie van Vuuren

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
In his new book, Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit (Hurst, 2019), Hennie van Vuuren examines the final decades of the apartheid regime in South Africa. He weaves …
African Studies May 15, 2018

The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland

Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014

Kate Skinner

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
In her book, The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Kate Skinner examines the history behind the failed project that …
African Studies March 12, 2018

Institutions and Democracy in Africa

How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments

Nic Cheeseman, ed.

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
In Institutions and Democracy in Africa: How the Rules of the Game Shape Political Developments (Cambridge University Press, 2018), the contributors challenge the argument that African states lack effective political …
African Studies March 2, 2018

Human Rights in Africa

Bonny Ibhawoh

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
In his new book, Human Rights in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Bonny Ibhawoh examines the discourse of human rights in Africa. He challenges some of the dominant narratives that …
African Studies February 6, 2018

Doomed Interventions

The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa

Kim Yi Dionne

Hosted by Bekeh Utietiang
AIDS is one of the primary causes of death in Africa. Of the more than 24 million Africans infected with HIV, only about 54% have access to the treatment that …