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:

Jared Staller, "Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670" (Ohio UP, 2019)

April 7, 2022

Converging on Cannibals

Jared Staller

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…

Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

January 17, 2022

Health, Healing and Illness in African History

Rebekah Lee

In Health, Healing and Illness in African History (Bloomsbury, 2021), Rebekah Lee makes an overall assessment of the history and historiography and he…

Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

October 11, 2021

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Kalle Kananoja

In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coast…

Christopher J. Lee, "Kwame Anthony Appiah" (Routledge, 2021)

July 28, 2021

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Christopher J. Lee

Kwame Anthony Appiah is among the most respected philosophers and thinkers of his generation. In Kwame Anthony Appiah (Routledge, 2021), Christopher L…

Leslie Anne Hadfield, "A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)

July 20, 2021

A Bold Profession

Leslie Anne Hadfield

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…

Christian A. Williams, "National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps" (Cambridge UP, 2015)

April 19, 2021

National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa

Christian A. Williams

In National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Christian …

Emily Callaci, "Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania" (Duke UP, 2017)

April 7, 2021

Street Archives and City Life

Emily Callaci

Emily Callaci's book Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania (Duke University Press, 2017) tells the histories o…

John M. Janzen, "Health in a Fragile State: Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo" (Wisconsin UP, 2019)

March 8, 2021

Health in a Fragile State

John M. Janzen

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…

Jelmer Vos, "Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order" (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)

February 16, 2021

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913

Jelmer Vos

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 …

Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nation in 20th-Century Africa" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

September 2, 2020

Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa

Jeff Schauer

The protection of African wildlife enjoys the support of large numbers of individuals and institutions throughout the world. In Wildlife between Empir…

Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)

August 3, 2020

The Politics of Disease Control

Mari K. Webel

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…

Ken O. Opalo, "Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

June 19, 2020

Legislative Development in Africa

Ken O. Opalo

Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Cambridge University Press, 2019) examines the development of African legislatu…

Kwasi Konadu, "Our Own Way In this Part of the World" (Duke UP, 2019)

May 7, 2020

Our Own Way In this Part of the World

Kwasi Konadu

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…

Christopher J. Lee, "Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa" (Duke UP, 2014)

March 19, 2020

Unreasonable Histories

Christopher J. Lee

In Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Duke University Press, 2014), Christopher …

James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

April 24, 2019

The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa

James L. A. Webb

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…

Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

March 22, 2019

Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania

Emma Hunter

Histories of African nationalism and decolonization have often assumed that political ideas such as freedom and democracy were imported into African c…

Jonathon Earle, "Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

November 13, 2018

Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire

Jonathon Earle

In his book Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Dr. Jon…

Jeffrey Ahlman, "Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2017)

May 23, 2018

Living with Nkrumahism

Jeffrey Ahlman

In 1957 Ghana achieved its independence from Great Britain under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. In Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Af…

Sandra E. Greene, "Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition" (Indiana UP, 2017)

March 22, 2018

Slave Owners of West Africa

Sandra E. Greene

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…

Jennifer Hart, "Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation" (Indiana UP, 2016)

February 23, 2018

Ghana on the Go

Jennifer Hart

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…

Gregory Mann, "From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Non-Governmentality" (Cambridge UP, 2014).

November 17, 2017

From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel

Gregory Mann

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…