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About Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University. She specializes in modern intellectual history of Africa, historiography, World history and Philosophy of History. She is the co-author of African Histories: New Sources and New Techniques for Studying African Pasts (Pearson, 2011).Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia is an associate professor of history at Montclair State University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Esperanza:
April 7, 2022
Converging on Cannibals
In Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670 (Ohio UP, 2019), Jared Staller tells the history of how the myth of canni…
January 17, 2022
Health, Healing and Illness in African History
In Health, Healing and Illness in African History (Bloomsbury, 2021), Rebekah Lee makes an overall assessment of the history and historiography and he…
October 11, 2021
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coast…
July 28, 2021
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah is among the most respected philosophers and thinkers of his generation. In Kwame Anthony Appiah (Routledge, 2021), Christopher L…
July 20, 2021
A Bold Profession
The first African nurse was certified in the Ciskei region of South Africa during the early decades of the twentieth century. Since then, African nurs…
April 19, 2021
National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa
In National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Christian …
April 7, 2021
Street Archives and City Life
Emily Callaci's book Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017) tells the histories o…
March 8, 2021
Health in a Fragile State
John M. Janzen's Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo (Wisconsin University Press, 2019) offers a granular and i…
February 16, 2021
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860-1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order (U Wisconsin Press, 2017) traces the history that led to a violent insurrection …
September 2, 2020
Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa
The protection of African wildlife enjoys the support of large numbers of individuals and institutions throughout the world. In Wildlife between Empir…
August 3, 2020
The Politics of Disease Control
In The Politics of Disease Control. Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920 (Ohio University Press, 2019), Mari K. Webel tells a history of col…
June 19, 2020
Legislative Development in Africa
Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examines the development of African legislatu…
May 7, 2020
Our Own Way In this Part of the World
In his new book Our Own Way In this Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture and Nation (Duke University Press, 2019), Kwasi Kona…
March 19, 2020
Unreasonable Histories
In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher …
April 24, 2019
The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million people every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in A…
March 22, 2019
Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania
Histories of African nationalism and decolonization have often assumed that political ideas such as freedom and democracy were imported into African c…
November 13, 2018
Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
In his book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Dr. Jon…
May 23, 2018
Living with Nkrumahism
In 1957 Ghana achieved its independence from Great Britain under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. In Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Af…
March 22, 2018
Slave Owners of West Africa
In today's podcast we talked to Dr. Sandra Greene about her book Slave Owners of West Africa. Decision Making in the Age of Abolition published in 201…
February 23, 2018
Ghana on the Go
Our guest today was Dr. Jennifer Hart who talked to us about her recently published book Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transpo…
November 17, 2017
From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel
Today we spoke to Gregory Mann about his book From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Non-Governmentality (Cambridge University Pr…