About Paul Bjerk

NBN Episodes hosted by Paul:

Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

November 2, 2020

Nigeria and World War II

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…

Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)

June 4, 2020

Collecting Food, Collecting People

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 evolv…

Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion" (Ohio UP, 2017)

February 11, 2020

Dedan Kimathi on Trial

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 transcr…

Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun" (Indiana UP, 2018)

May 9, 2019

An Ethnography of Hunger

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 …