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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 …