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Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio, "Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
34 mins; April 19, 2024
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
41 mins; April 14, 2024
Cristiana Strava, "Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
89 hours 18 mins; April 12, 2024
100 Years of Radio in South Africa: Then and Now
54 mins; April 11, 2024
Rabiat Akande, "Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
90 hours 51 mins; April 06, 2024
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640" (U Texas Press, 2024)
44 mins; March 26, 2024
Maarten Couttenier, "Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922)" (Routledge, 2023)
39 mins; March 24, 2024
Patryk I. Labuda, "International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; March 22, 2024
Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China" (Canongate Books, 2024)
32 mins; March 21, 2024
Tayo Agunbiade, "Untold Histories of Nigerian Women: Emerging from the Margins" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
53 mins; March 14, 2024
Ali Bhagat, "Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism" (Cornell UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 14, 2024
Sean M. Kelley, "American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 29 mins; March 10, 2024
Cristina Brito, "Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
36 mins; March 04, 2024
Noah L. Nathan, "The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 03, 2024
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe, "Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts" (Routledge, 2024)
46 mins; March 02, 2024
Carly Goodman, "Dreamland: America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction" (UNC Press, 2023)
70 hours 10 mins; February 29, 2024
Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 25 mins; February 27, 2024
MagalĂ­ Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
75 hours 20 mins; February 18, 2024
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton UP, 2023)
73 hours 23 mins; February 18, 2024
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022)
47 mins; February 16, 2024
Lehasa Moloi, "Developing Africa?: New Horizons with Afrocentricity" (Anthem Press, 2024)
41 mins; February 12, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
48 mins; February 11, 2024
Kerstin Bree Carlson, "The Justice Laboratory: International Law in Africa" (Brookings Institution Press, 2022)
56 mins; February 09, 2024
Youjin B. Chung, "Sweet Deal, Bitter Landscape: Gender Politics and Liminality in Tanzania's New Enclosures" (Cornell UP, 2024)
52 mins; February 06, 2024
Paul Stoller, "Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times" (Cornell UP, 2023)
66 hours 6 mins; February 03, 2024
The Conflict in Sudan
62 hours 40 mins; February 01, 2024
Democracy in Malawai
38 mins; January 31, 2024
Nicholas Radburn, "Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" (Yale UP, 2023)
75 hours 18 mins; January 24, 2024
Kathryn Mathers, "White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation" (Routledge, 2022)
80 hours 9 mins; January 14, 2024
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
60 hours 43 mins; January 12, 2024
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; January 09, 2024
Paul F. Diehl et al., "When Peacekeeping Missions Collide: Balancing Multiple Roles in Peace Operations" (Oxford UP, 2023)
70 hours 7 mins; January 08, 2024
Rita Kesselring, "Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa" (Stanford UP, 2017)
49 mins; January 08, 2024
China’s Environmental Footprint in Ghana: Non-State Responses
30 mins; January 05, 2024
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim, "Decolonizing Human Rights" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 58 mins; January 03, 2024
Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)
51 mins; January 02, 2024
Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
55 mins; December 31, 2023
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
50 mins; December 27, 2023
George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
79 hours 16 mins; December 24, 2023
Adrienne E. Strong, "Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania" (U California Press, 2020)
60 hours 33 mins; December 21, 2023
Jenny Trinitapoli, "An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
39 mins; December 20, 2023
Tom Buitelaar, "Assisting International Justice: Cooperation Between UN Peace Operations and the International Criminal Court in the Democratic Republic of Congo" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 0 mins; December 19, 2023
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; December 17, 2023
Troels Burchall Henningsen, "Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2023
Louis-Alexandre Berg, "Governing Security After War: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Security Sector" (Oxford UP, 2022)
81 hours 41 mins; December 14, 2023
Have We Entered a New Era of African Politics and International Relations?
36 mins; December 13, 2023
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
38 mins; December 11, 2023
Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
70 hours 56 mins; December 09, 2023
Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023)
42 mins; November 27, 2023
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
42 mins; November 25, 2023
Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; November 13, 2023
B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
51 mins; November 06, 2023
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
80 hours 55 mins; November 04, 2023
Charles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury, "Transnational French Studies" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
62 hours 25 mins; October 24, 2023
Onyeka Nubia, "England’s Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
67 hours 38 mins; October 17, 2023
Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)
52 mins; October 13, 2023
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
42 mins; October 11, 2023
Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, "The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice" (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
40 mins; October 08, 2023
Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 18 mins; October 02, 2023
Seema Alavi, "Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
54 mins; September 28, 2023
Shezan Muhammedi, "Gifts from Amin: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada" (U of Manitoba Press, 2022)
97 hours 9 mins; September 28, 2023
Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023)
78 hours 21 mins; September 25, 2023
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023
Coups and the Threat of “Feel Good” Militarism in Africa
33 mins; September 15, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Padraic X. Scanlan, "Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain" (Robinson, 2021)
84 hours 8 mins; September 11, 2023
Jenna N. Hanchey, "The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO" (Duke UP, 2023)
62 hours 54 mins; August 29, 2023
Samson A. Bezabeh, "Djibouti: A Political History" (Lynne Rienner, 2023)
77 hours 22 mins; August 27, 2023
Pedro Monaville, "Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo" (Duke UP, 2022)
94 hours 24 mins; August 23, 2023
Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)
55 mins; August 19, 2023
Terrence Lyons, "The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
66 hours 5 mins; August 15, 2023
Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
94 hours 25 mins; August 14, 2023
Karen E. Rignall, "An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis" (Cornell UP, 2021)
42 mins; August 12, 2023
Zahi Zalloua, "Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2023
Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
82 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
54 mins; August 04, 2023
Omolade Adunbi, "Enclaves of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Extractive Practices in Nigeria" (Indiana UP, 2022)
41 mins; July 31, 2023
India's Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa
24 mins; July 28, 2023
Ismay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 25, 2023
Erin Pettigrew, "Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 21 mins; July 23, 2023
António Tomás, "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" (Duke UP, 2022)
42 mins; July 19, 2023
Simona Berhe and Olindo de Napoli, "Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882-1943" (Routledge, 2021)
86 hours 1 min; July 13, 2023
Dinah Hannaford, "Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care" (Stanford UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 07, 2023
Robin Steedman, "Creative Hustling: Women Making and Distributing Films from Nairobi" (MIT Press, 2023)
37 mins; July 06, 2023
Apostolos Andrikopoulos, "Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing Europe" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
47 mins; July 05, 2023
Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 03, 2023
Edward Kissi, "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples" (Routledge, 2021)
116 hours 59 mins; June 29, 2023
Markus Virgil Höhne, "Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision" (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
68 hours 43 mins; June 28, 2023
Daniel E Agbiboa, "Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
52 mins; June 17, 2023
Daniel E. Agbiboa, "They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria" (Oxford UP, 2023)
33 mins; June 14, 2023
J. P. Daughton, "In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism" (Norton, 2021)
59 mins; June 13, 2023
Rob Marchant, "East Africa’s Human Environment Interactions: Historical Perspectives for a Sustainable Future" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
58 mins; June 06, 2023
Negotiating Decolonization: The Limits of a Fairy Tale
34 mins; May 30, 2023
Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus, "Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
54 mins; May 29, 2023
Burkhard Schnepel and Julia Verne, "Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean" (Ohio UP, 2022)
44 mins; May 27, 2023
Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)
65 hours 21 mins; May 26, 2023
Saskia Coenen Snyder, "A Brilliant Commodity: Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; May 25, 2023
Christoph Kalter, "Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal " (Cambridge UP, 2022)
70 hours 10 mins; May 23, 2023
Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
57 mins; May 22, 2023
Jonathan Adeyemi, "Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
35 mins; May 21, 2023
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