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NBN Episodes hosted by Mireille:
October 5, 2018
Julius Nyerere
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 mono…
August 17, 2018
Optimism at All Costs
Optimism at All Costs: Black Attitudes, Activism, and Advancement in Obama's America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) takes as its point of d…
April 27, 2018
Atlantic Bonds
The title of Lisa A. Lindsay’s book Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), i…
June 20, 2017
Afro-Atlantic Flight
In Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke University Press, 2017), Michelle D. Commander examines the (im)possibility…
April 13, 2017
Inside Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Rwanda's homegrown gacaca law has been widely hailed as a successful indigenous solution to the unprecedented problem of the country's 1994 genocide. …
February 6, 2017
Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation
The unprecedented crime of the 1994 Rwandan genocide demanded an unconventional legal response. After failed attempts by the international legal syste…
December 2, 2016
Healthcare Policy in Africa
In Healthcare Policy In Africa: Institutions and Politics from Colonialism to the Present (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Jean-Germain Gros argues tha…
June 15, 2016
Racial Reconstruction
The dialectical configuration of black inclusion/Chinese exclusion is at the center of Edlie Wong's book Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chine…
December 18, 2015
Building a Peaceful Nation
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…
November 20, 2015
Education as Politics
Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015) questions and complicates …
October 20, 2015
Listening to Ourselves
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 Engli…
September 23, 2015
Word Warrior
Sonja D. Williams' book Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (University of Illinois Press, 2015) connects its subject to some of the most…
March 17, 2015
Black Faces, White Spaces
Geographer Carolyn Finney wrote Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (University of Nort…
February 13, 2015
1919, The Year of Racial Violence
In 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back (Cambridge University Press, 2014), David Krugler chronicles the origins and d…
October 28, 2014
Crafting Lives
Seeking to fill the gap in scholarship focused on African American artisans in the American South, Catherine W. Bishir uses the very specific location…
October 9, 2014
The Age Of Garvey
Adam Ewing acknowledges the enduring, if reductive, image of Garveyism - "the parades and shipping lines and colonization schemes" - in its early, Har…
September 24, 2014
To March for Others
Co-founded in 1962 by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association would eventually become the United Farm Workers (UFW), …