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African Studies May 1, 2015

Tales from a Muzungu

Nicholas Duncan

Hosted by Jim Lance
Tales from a Muzungu (Peace Corps Writers, 2014) relates a Peace Corps Volunteer's experiences living and working inUganda. Mixing keen observation, sensitivity, and insight with a mordant wit and sense …
African Studies April 17, 2015

An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World

Benguela and its Hinterland

Mariana Candido

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Mariana Candido's book An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World. Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is a powerful and moving exploration of the history and development …
African Studies February 2, 2015

Patrice Lumumba

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

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Patrice Lumumba was a leader of the independence struggle, as well as the country's first democratically elected prime minister, in what is today the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After …
African Studies January 21, 2015

Foreign Intervention in Africa

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

Elizabeth Schmidt

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Elizabeth Schmidt's Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013) depicts the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the …
African Studies December 4, 2014

Violent Intermediaries

African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa

Michelle Moyd

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In her imaginative and scrupulous book, Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa (Ohio University Press, 2014), historian Michelle Moyd writes about theaskari, Africans soldiers …
African Studies November 6, 2014

Africa Must be Modern

A Manifesto

Olufemi Taiwo

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Olufemi Taiwo's unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana University Press, 2014), confronts the reluctance, if not outright hostility, of many Africans to embrace modernity …
African Studies October 10, 2014

Thomas Sankara

An African Revolutionary

Ernest Harsch

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Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during a military coup that brought down …
African Studies October 3, 2014

Stones of Contention

A History of Africa's Diamonds

Todd Cleveland

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"Diamonds are forever" or "Blood diamonds"--the one a pithy marketing slogan showing how diamonds encapsulate enduring love and commitment and the other a call to conscience about the violence and …