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NBN Episodes hosted by Mireille:
African Studies
October 5, 2018
Julius Nyerere
Paul Bjerk
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Mireille Djenno
Paul Bjerk’s compact biography Julius Nyerere, published as part of the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series follows closely on the heels of his monograph on the same subject - …
African American Studies
August 17, 2018
Optimism at All Costs
Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America
Lessie B. Branch
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Mireille Djenno
Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) takes as its point of departure and central preoccupation the notion of “paradoxical …
African Studies
April 27, 2018
Atlantic Bonds
A Nineteenth Century Odyssey from America to Africa
Lisa A. Lindsay
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Mireille Djenno
The title of Lisa A. Lindsay’s book Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), invokes enduring family ties, as well as the …
African American Studies
June 20, 2017
Afro-Atlantic Flight
Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
Michelle D. Commander
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Mireille Djenno
In Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke University Press, 2017), Michelle D. Commander examines the (im)possibility of literal and figurative returns to Africa of African-descended peoples throughout …
African Studies
April 13, 2017
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Seeking Justice After Genocide
Bert Ingelaere
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Mireille Djenno
Rwanda's homegrown gacaca law has been widely hailed as a successful indigenous solution to the unprecedented problem of the country's 1994 genocide. In his book Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts: Seeking …
African Studies
February 6, 2017
Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation
The Case of Rwanda's Gacaca Law
Telesphore Ngarambe
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Mireille Djenno
The unprecedented crime of the 1994 Rwandan genocide demanded an unconventional legal response. After failed attempts by the international legal system to efficiently handle legal cases stemming from the genocide …
African Studies
December 2, 2016
Healthcare Policy in Africa
Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present
Jean-Germain Gros
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Mireille Djenno
In Healthcare Policy In Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Jean-Germain Gros argues that healthcare policy should be the black box rather than …
African American Studies
June 15, 2016
Racial Reconstruction
Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
Edlie Wong
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Mireille Djenno
The dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion is at the center of Edlie Wong's book Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship (New York University Press …
African Studies
December 18, 2015
Building a Peaceful Nation
Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964
Paul Bjerk
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Mireille Djenno
Let's begin with what Paul Bjerk's new book isn't: "a biography or evaluation of Julius Nyerere." Instead, according to a letter that Bjerk sent me in advance of our interview …
African Studies
November 20, 2015
Education as Politics
Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914
Kelly M. Duke Bryant
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Mireille Djenno
Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) questions and complicates the two dominant narratives of African colonial education, namely that colonial …
African Studies
October 20, 2015
Listening to Ourselves
A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy
Chike Jeffers
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Mireille Djenno
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who famously made the decision in the 1970s to henceforth only produce his creative work in his native Gikuyu, rather than in English, authors the foreword to …
African American Studies
September 23, 2015
Word Warrior
Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom
Sonja D. Williams
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Mireille Djenno
Sonja D. Williams' book Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (University of Illinois Press, 2015) connects its subject to some of the most important events and social movements of …
African American Studies
March 17, 2015
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
Carolyn Finney
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Mireille Djenno
Geographer Carolyn Finney wrote Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), out of a frustration with the …
African American Studies
February 13, 2015
1919, The Year of Racial Violence
How African Americans Fought Back
David Krugler
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Mireille Djenno
In 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2014), David Krugler chronicles the origins and development of ten major race riots that took …
African American Studies
October 28, 2014
Crafting Lives
African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900
Catherine W. Bishir
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Mireille Djenno
Seeking to fill the gap in scholarship focused on African American artisans in the American South, Catherine W. Bishir uses the very specific location of New Bern, North Carolina to …
African American Studies
October 9, 2014
The Age Of Garvey
How A Jamaican Activist Created A Mass Movement And Changed Global Black Politics
Adam Ewing
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Mireille Djenno
Adam Ewing acknowledges the enduring, if reductive, image of Garveyism - "the parades and shipping lines and colonization schemes" - in its early, Harlem-based incarnation, but focuses The Age Of …
African American Studies
September 24, 2014
To March for Others
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
Lauren Araiza
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Mireille Djenno
Co-founded in 1962 by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association would eventually become the United Farm Workers (UFW), the landmark labor union dedicated to achieving better …
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