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Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)
69 hours 47 mins; March 31, 2026
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
62 hours 2 mins; March 29, 2026
Michael Allan, "Cinema before the World: The Global Routes of the Lumière Brothers" (Fordham UP, 2026)
35 mins; March 29, 2026
Emmanuel Ofuasia, "ĂŚwĂ : the Process-Relational Dimension to African Metaphysics" (Springer, 2024)
91 hours 31 mins; March 29, 2026
Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
47 mins; March 24, 2026
Craig Perry, "Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History" (Princeton UP, 2026)
53 mins; March 21, 2026
Maria A. Sanchez, "Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts" (Cornell UP, 2026)
51 mins; March 20, 2026
Lauren M. MacLean, "Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity (Indiana UP, 2026)
80 hours 30 mins; March 15, 2026
Jessica Ann Levy, "Black Power, Inc.: Corporate America and the Rise of Multinational Empowerment Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
65 hours 42 mins; March 13, 2026
Selina Nwulu, "Black Climates: Notes on Race, Our Environment, and Visions for Equitable Futures" (Chatto & Windus, 2025)
48 mins; March 11, 2026
Alice Wiemers, "Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2021)
55 mins; February 28, 2026
Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition” (Indiana UP, 2017)
42 mins; February 28, 2026
Why Senegal’s Democracy Survived
40 mins; February 25, 2026
Wendy Wolford, "The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of Extraction in Mozambique" (U California Press, 2025)
66 hours 59 mins; February 21, 2026
Carl Death, "African Climate Futures" (Oxford UP, 2025)
62 hours 15 mins; February 16, 2026
Nadine Gordimer: “Living in South Africa’s Interregnum” James Lecture, October 14, 1982
69 hours 24 mins; February 15, 2026
Claire Nicolas, "Une si longue course: Sport, genre, et citoyenneté au Ghana et en Côte d’Ivoire (années 1900-1970)" (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024)
57 mins; February 11, 2026
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; February 09, 2026
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; February 08, 2026
Todd Cleveland, "Africa and the Olympics: Winning Away from the Podium" (Ohio UP, 2024)
36 mins; February 07, 2026
Leslie James, "The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960" (Harvard UP, 2025)
55 mins; February 06, 2026
Itohan I. Osayimwese, "Africa's Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage" (Princeton UP, 2025)
79 hours 36 mins; February 03, 2026
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and Development" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
35 mins; January 31, 2026
Brahim El Guabli, "Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences" (U California Press, 2025)
50 mins; January 28, 2026
Iain Jackson et. al., "Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
40 mins; January 28, 2026
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
71 hours 10 mins; January 27, 2026
Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
44 mins; January 27, 2026
Noam Sienna, "Jewish Books in North Africa: Between the Early Modern and Modern Worlds" (Indiana UP, 2025)
61 hours 26 mins; January 12, 2026
Jeffrey Ahlman, "Ghana: A Political and Social History" (Zed Books, 2023)
41 mins; January 10, 2026
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
57 mins; January 08, 2026
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
47 mins; January 05, 2026
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 31, 2025
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
67 hours 39 mins; December 30, 2025
Riley Linebaugh, "Curating the Colonial Past: The 'Migrated Archives' and the Struggle for Kenya's History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; December 23, 2025
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W. French
48 mins; December 20, 2025
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, "Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
56 mins; December 10, 2025
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery, "Fela: Music Is the Weapon" (Amistad Press, 2025)
85 hours 0 mins; December 09, 2025
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025
Philip Janzen, "An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2025)
55 mins; December 06, 2025
Ali Anooshahr, "Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; December 05, 2025
Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)
57 mins; December 04, 2025
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
64 hours 9 mins; December 01, 2025
Marc Sommers, "We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
78 hours 50 mins; November 30, 2025
Nina Wilén, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
52 mins; November 25, 2025
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "African Women’s Histories in European Narratives: The Afropolitan Krio Fernandino Diaspora (1850-1996)" (Leuven UP, 2025)
44 mins; November 24, 2025
Killian Clarke, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
65 hours 1 min; November 21, 2025
Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami
34 mins; November 20, 2025
Jessica Catherine Reuther, "The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940" (Indiana UP, 2025)
74 hours 1 min; November 15, 2025
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)
67 hours 5 mins; November 12, 2025
Two Decades On: The African Union, Power, and Africa’s Democratic Future
36 mins; November 10, 2025
Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
42 mins; November 08, 2025
Loic De Canniere, "The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare" (Anthem, 2025)
67 hours 47 mins; November 04, 2025
Loic De Canniere, "The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare" (Anthem, 2025)
67 hours 47 mins; November 04, 2025
Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)
58 mins; October 31, 2025
Aria Fani, "Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism" (U Texas Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 31, 2025
Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 50 mins; October 19, 2025
Julia Ross Cummiskey, "Virus Research in Twentieth-Century Uganda: Between Local and Global" (Ohio UP, 2024)
92 hours 21 mins; October 16, 2025
Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Joshua Eisenman and David H. Shinn, "China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" (Columbia UP, 2023)
102 hours 23 mins; October 08, 2025
Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi and Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi, "Modern Nigeria" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
50 mins; October 07, 2025
Marcia C. Schenck, "Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World: Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
45 mins; October 05, 2025
Eric T. Jennings, "Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean" (Yale UP, 2025)
51 mins; October 02, 2025
Erin M.B. O'Halloran, "East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars" (Stanford UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 02, 2025
Rosemary Admiral, "Living Law: Women and Legality in Marinid Morocco" (Syracuse UP, 2025)
49 mins; September 29, 2025
Timothy Williams, "Memory Politics After Mass Violence: Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape" (Bristol UP, 2025)
60 hours 8 mins; September 27, 2025
Julia Rensing, "Troubling Archives: History and Memory in Namibian Literature and Art" (Transcript Publishing, 2025)
46 mins; September 25, 2025
Laurian R. Bowles, "Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
63 hours 2 mins; September 24, 2025
Wendell Marsh, "Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities" (Columbia UP, 2025)
53 mins; September 22, 2025
Devin Smart, "Preparing the Modern Meal: Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City" (Ohio UP, 2025)
82 hours 24 mins; September 21, 2025
Shakirah E. Hudani, "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
38 mins; September 18, 2025
Rose Casey, "Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style" (Fordham UP, 2025)
52 mins; September 12, 2025
j. Siguru Wahutu, "In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
68 hours 59 mins; September 09, 2025
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 41 mins; September 08, 2025
Daisy Livingston, "Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo: Archives, Waqf and Society" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 30, 2025
Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
42 mins; August 25, 2025
Lucia Sorbera, "Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt" (U of California Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 23, 2025
Bettina Ng′weno, "No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi" (U of California Press, 2025)
53 mins; August 21, 2025
Mariam F. Ayad ed., "Coptic Culture and Community: Daily Lives, Changing Times" (American University in Cairo Press, 2024)
80 hours 25 mins; August 19, 2025
Adam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
58 mins; August 17, 2025
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
53 mins; August 16, 2025
Domale Dube, "Ogoni Women's Activism: The Transnational Struggle for Justice" (University of Illinois Press, 2025)
33 mins; August 12, 2025
Kevin P. Donovan, "Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
62 hours 3 mins; August 12, 2025
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 11, 2025
Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)
115 hours 57 mins; August 10, 2025
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
64 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2025
Klaus Bachmann, "The Genocide in Rwanda in Comparative Perspective: Death and Survival on the Lake Kivu Shore" (Routledge, 2025)
82 hours 35 mins; August 02, 2025
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
60 hours 54 mins; August 01, 2025
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
41 mins; July 20, 2025
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba, "Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain" (Profile Books, 2025)
63 hours 50 mins; July 15, 2025
John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)
103 hours 18 mins; July 14, 2025
Judith Scheele, "Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara" (Basic Books, 2025)
66 hours 25 mins; July 07, 2025
Alpha Nkuranga, "Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience" (Goose Lane, 2024)
41 mins; July 07, 2025
Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)
51 mins; July 04, 2025
Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)
30 mins; June 29, 2025
Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)
81 hours 27 mins; June 19, 2025
Candace Lukasik, "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2025)
50 mins; June 18, 2025
Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi" (Hurst, 2020)
65 hours 39 mins; June 08, 2025
Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
60 hours 5 mins; June 07, 2025
Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
34 mins; June 04, 2025
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