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Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022)
74 hours 34 mins; June 03, 2025
Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)
63 hours 0 mins; May 30, 2025
Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)
74 hours 14 mins; May 17, 2025
William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
47 mins; May 10, 2025
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "Spain’s African Colonial Legacies: Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared" (Brill, 2022)
58 mins; May 04, 2025
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
52 mins; May 02, 2025
Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)
39 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 26, 2025
Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)
88 hours 52 mins; April 24, 2025
Bianca Murillo, "Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2017)
71 hours 48 mins; April 23, 2025
Chitra Nagarajan, "The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict" (Cassava Republic, 2025)
74 hours 40 mins; April 18, 2025
Mingwei Huang, "Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century" (Duke UP, 2024)
62 hours 34 mins; April 15, 2025
Les Sosnowski and Monique Sosnowski, "Operation Crevette: Benin, Mercenaries, and the Survival of a New State" (Lexington Books, 2024)
105 hours 4 mins; April 11, 2025
Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
39 mins; April 04, 2025
Tycho van der Hoog, "Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa" (Hurst, 2025)
41 mins; March 16, 2025
William Blakemore Lyon, "Forged in Genocide: Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925" (de Gruyter, 2024)
86 hours 12 mins; March 15, 2025
Arwen P. Mohun, "American Imperialist: Cruelty and Consequence in the Scramble for Africa" (Chicago UP, 2023)
43 mins; March 05, 2025
Alexander Smalls and Nina Oduro, "The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa" (Phaidon Press, 2024)
23 mins; February 28, 2025
Philip A. Martin, "Strong Commanders, Weak States: How Rebel Governance Shapes Military Integration after Civil War" (Cornell UP, 2025)
63 hours 1 min; February 26, 2025
Kara Cooney, "Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches" (American U in Cairo Press, 2024)
53 mins; February 23, 2025
Rhiannon Stephens, "Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History" (Duke UP, 2022)
47 mins; February 22, 2025
Lindsay O'Neill, "The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
47 mins; February 21, 2025
Samar Al-Bulushi, "War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror" (Stanford UP, 2024)
65 hours 44 mins; February 17, 2025
Raphael Chijioke Njoku, "Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947-2022" (Leuven UP, 2024)
66 hours 12 mins; February 16, 2025
Frank Gerits, "The Ideological Scramble for Africa: How the Pursuit of Anticolonial Modernity Shaped a Postcolonial Order, 1945-1966" (Cornell UP, 2023)
56 mins; February 12, 2025
A. G. Hopkins, "Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931" (Princeton UP, 2024)
52 mins; January 30, 2025
Rachel Marie Niehuus, "An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo" (Duke UP, 2024)
65 hours 26 mins; January 28, 2025
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, "Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement" (Duke UP, 2023)
66 hours 26 mins; January 27, 2025
Casey Golomski, "God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
69 hours 32 mins; January 22, 2025
Benjamin H. Bradlow, "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in SĂŁo Paulo and Johannesburg" (Princeton UP, 2024)
49 mins; January 13, 2025
Jonathan R. Beloff, "The Strategy to End the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda" (Lexington Books, 2025)
80 hours 16 mins; January 09, 2025
CaitlĂ­n EilĂ­s Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; January 08, 2025
Emily Marker, "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (Cornell UP, 2022)
65 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2025
Fela Kuti and the Black Atlantic
80 hours 57 mins; December 30, 2024
Nicholas R. Jones, "Cervantine Blackness" (Penn State UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 30, 2024
Chelsea Berry, "Poisoned Relations: Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
41 mins; December 20, 2024
Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 20 mins; December 18, 2024
Anne K. Bang, "Zanzibari Muslim Moderns: Islamic Paths to Progress in the Interwar Period" (Oxford UP, 2024)
63 hours 10 mins; December 18, 2024
Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024)
78 hours 28 mins; December 17, 2024
Joanna Allan, "Saharan Winds: Energy Systems and Aeolian Imaginaries in Western Sahara" (WVU Press, 2024)
47 mins; December 17, 2024
Nathanael Homewood, "Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
62 hours 36 mins; December 15, 2024
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, "Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers" (Centro Primo Levi, 2018)
94 hours 27 mins; December 14, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
71 hours 23 mins; December 12, 2024
Meredith McKittrick, "Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
60 hours 7 mins; December 10, 2024
Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)
67 hours 49 mins; December 08, 2024
Caroline SĂ©quin, "Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950" (Cornell UP, 2024)
97 hours 21 mins; November 29, 2024
Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick, "New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization" (UP of Florida, 2017)
51 mins; November 24, 2024
Roberta Pergher, "Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
71 hours 2 mins; November 22, 2024
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
51 mins; November 16, 2024
Anette Hoffmann, "Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)" (Duke UP, 2024)
42 mins; November 09, 2024
AmĂ­n PĂ©rez, "Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle" (Polity Press, 2023)
36 mins; November 09, 2024
Doyle D. Calhoun, "The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire" (Duke UP, 2024)
71 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2024
Mara Kardas-Nelson, "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" (Metropolitan Books, 2024)
43 mins; November 05, 2024
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
44 mins; November 02, 2024
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
80 hours 34 mins; October 17, 2024
Christian Velasco, "Commercial Banking in Kenya: A History from Colonisation to Digital Age" (Routledge, 2024)
54 mins; October 15, 2024
Sharad Chari, "Apartheid Remains" (Duke UP, 2024)
78 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2024
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
36 mins; October 12, 2024
Uroš Kovač, "The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
73 hours 27 mins; September 30, 2024
Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
84 hours 8 mins; September 21, 2024
Joanna Allan, "Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
56 mins; September 20, 2024
Why Almost Everything You Think about Protests in Africa is Wrong
32 mins; September 19, 2024
David Zeitlyn, "Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers" (Routledge, 2021)
63 hours 12 mins; September 07, 2024
Aditi Malik, "Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 06, 2024
Marie-Eve Desrosiers, "Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control Before the Genocide" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
67 hours 25 mins; August 26, 2024
Robin E. Möser, "Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
43 mins; August 26, 2024
Vanessa S. Oliveira, "Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
65 hours 5 mins; August 18, 2024
Carole Ammann, "Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
90 hours 20 mins; August 18, 2024
Abbey Stockstill, "Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib" (Penn State UP, 2024)
55 mins; August 16, 2024
Andrew R. Basso, "Destroy Them Gradually: Displacement as Atrocity" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
71 hours 7 mins; August 13, 2024
Catherine Boone, "Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; August 10, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
70 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2024
Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
77 hours 6 mins; August 01, 2024
Michael J. Sheridan, "Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants" (Routledge, 2023)
61 hours 11 mins; July 31, 2024
Will Urban Youth Fundamentally Change African Politics?
39 mins; July 31, 2024
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
60 hours 29 mins; July 24, 2024
Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
47 mins; July 15, 2024
Miranda Melcher, "Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique: The Importance of Specificity in Peace Treaties" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
75 hours 56 mins; July 08, 2024
Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022)
54 mins; July 02, 2024
Kehbuma Langmia, "Black 'Race' and the White Supremacy Saga" (Anthem Press, 2024)
44 mins; July 01, 2024
Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants
31 mins; June 26, 2024
Edward A. Alpers and Thomas F. McDow, "A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History: Ten Design Principles" (Duke UP, 2024)
80 hours 51 mins; June 25, 2024
Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021)
66 hours 34 mins; June 25, 2024
PhDing While Parenting
55 mins; June 20, 2024
Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa, "DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice" (Zed Books, 2023)
49 mins; June 14, 2024
Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth" (U California Press, 2024)
63 hours 18 mins; June 07, 2024
Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
45 mins; June 06, 2024
Aaron Eddens, "Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa" (U California Press, 2024)
53 mins; June 06, 2024
Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
69 hours 46 mins; June 03, 2024
Polo B. Moji, "Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives" (Routledge, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2024
South Africa Goes to the Polls
57 mins; May 30, 2024
Nisrin Elamin on the Conflict in Sudan
62 hours 16 mins; May 30, 2024
Democratic Crisis in Senegal
57 mins; May 29, 2024
Stuart A. Reid, "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" (Knopf, 2023)
50 mins; May 19, 2024
Christopher Tounsel, "Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity" (Cornell UP, 2024)
52 mins; May 15, 2024
Shelley X. Liu, "Governing After War: Rebel Victories and Post-War Statebuilding" (Oxford UP, 2024)
44 mins; May 13, 2024
Maggie Messitt, "Newspaper" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
57 mins; May 09, 2024
Zvenyika Eckson Mugari, "Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe: News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power" (Routledge, 2020)
130 hours 26 mins; May 03, 2024
Boubacar N’Diaye, "Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization" (Routledge, 2017)
95 hours 34 mins; April 25, 2024
Fumilayo Showers, "Migrants Who Care: West Africans Working and Building Lives in U.S. Health Care" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
62 hours 57 mins; April 21, 2024
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