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About Paul Bjerk
NBN Episodes hosted by Paul:
African Studies
November 2, 2020
Nigeria and World War II
Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict
Chima J. Korieh
Hosted by Paul Bjerk
Reading the petitions that resident of colonial Nigeria submitted to the government during World War II, Marquette University historian, Prof. Chima J. Korieh found a unique source for African political …
Food
June 4, 2020
Collecting Food, Collecting People
Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
Kathryn M. De Luna
Hosted by Paul Bjerk
In Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016), Kathryn M. De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of wild foods …
African Studies
February 11, 2020
Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion
Julie MacArthur
Hosted by Paul Bjerk
In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau …
Food
May 9, 2019
An Ethnography of Hunger
Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun
Kristin D. Phillips
Hosted by Paul Bjerk
Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy …