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Enrique Martino, "Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea" (de Gruyter, 2022)
41 mins; May 20, 2023
Algeria and France: Grievances and the Effects of Decolonialism
41 mins; May 18, 2023
Nienke Boer, "The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World" (Duke UP, 2023)
45 mins; May 16, 2023
Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
45 mins; May 10, 2023
Colin Hoag, "The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy" (U California Press, 2022)
59 mins; May 10, 2023
Brian Valente-Quinn, "Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
75 hours 29 mins; May 06, 2023
Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 03, 2023
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
64 hours 46 mins; May 03, 2023
Brahim El Guabli, "Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship After State Violence" (Fordham UP, 2023)
59 mins; April 30, 2023
Yvan Yenda Ilunga, "Humanitarianism and Security: Trouble and Hope at the Heart of Africa" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
36 mins; April 27, 2023
Rachel Anne Gillett, "At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; April 22, 2023
Thomas M. Lekan, "Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti" (Oxford UP, 2020)
76 hours 33 mins; April 11, 2023
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Islam and Blackness" (Oneworld Academic, 2022)
95 hours 58 mins; April 07, 2023
Roni Mikel-Arieli, "Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)" (de Gruyter, 2022)
134 hours 50 mins; March 28, 2023
Anjan Sundaram, "Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime" (Catapult, 2023)
56 mins; March 24, 2023
Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)
37 mins; March 22, 2023
Gediminas Lesutis, "The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering" (Routledge, 2021)
86 hours 19 mins; March 21, 2023
Chrisanthi Giotis, "Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; March 20, 2023
Ribara Uwariraye et al., "Survivors Uncensored: 100+ Testimonies from Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide" (2022)
67 hours 29 mins; March 15, 2023
Herman Wasserman, "The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
61 hours 35 mins; March 15, 2023
Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
56 mins; March 08, 2023
Ulrike Krause, "Difficult Life in a Refugee Camp: Gender, Violence, and Coping in Uganda" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
51 mins; March 06, 2023
Birth Rates and the Future of Social Movements: A Discussion with Jack Goldstone
33 mins; March 06, 2023
Kyama M. Mugambi, "A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya" (Baylor UP, 2020)
98 hours 28 mins; March 05, 2023
William Carruthers, "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell UP, 2022)
76 hours 38 mins; March 05, 2023
Jennie E. Burnet, "To Save Heaven and Earth: Rescue in the Rwandan Genocide" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 18 mins; March 04, 2023
Marcus Rediker, "The Slave Ship: A Human History" (Penguin, 2008)
54 mins; March 03, 2023
Elle Hardy, "Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World" (Hurst, 2022)
46 mins; February 28, 2023
Sabri Ciftci et al., "Beyond Piety and Politics: Religion, Social Relations, and Public Preferences in the Middle East and North Africa" (Indiana UP, 2022)
48 mins; February 27, 2023
Stephanie Wolfe and Matthew Kane, "In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda" (Routledge, 2023)
57 mins; February 22, 2023
Sara Pugach, "African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
66 hours 45 mins; February 17, 2023
Philip Gooding, "On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, c.1830-1890" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
65 hours 41 mins; February 07, 2023
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
60 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2023
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 36 mins; February 05, 2023
Spencer D. Segalla, "Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
83 hours 50 mins; February 04, 2023
Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, "Dougla in the Twenty-First Century: Adding to the Mix" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
73 hours 43 mins; February 02, 2023
Harry Gamble, "Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
99 hours 9 mins; January 17, 2023
Lisa Biggs, "The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
66 hours 32 mins; January 16, 2023
Miguel Valerio, "Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539-1640" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
40 mins; January 14, 2023
Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
51 mins; January 13, 2023
Antonia Witt, "Undoing Coups: The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar" (Zed Books, 2020)
68 hours 55 mins; January 11, 2023
Alessandro Iandolo, "Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968" (Cornell UP, 2022)
55 mins; January 10, 2023
Philippe-Richard Marius, "The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
88 hours 1 min; January 08, 2023
Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
72 hours 49 mins; January 07, 2023
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Mediterranean
54 mins; January 06, 2023
Sebastian Elischer, "Salafism and Political Order in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
64 hours 35 mins; January 04, 2023
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, "She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; January 03, 2023
Abdul Alkalimat, "The Future of Black Studies" (Pluto Press, 2022)
92 hours 17 mins; December 29, 2022
Involution and Negative Equilibrium: Explaining the Ongoing Conflict in the Congo
38 mins; December 28, 2022
Emma Wild-Wood, "The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935" (James Currey, 2020)
94 hours 13 mins; December 25, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
44 mins; December 22, 2022
Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
76 hours 24 mins; December 21, 2022
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, "Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
Stephanie Decker, "Postcolonial Transition and Global Business History: British Multinational Companies in Ghana and Nigeria" (Routledge, 2022)
56 mins; December 16, 2022
Sean Metzger, "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2020)
57 mins; December 16, 2022
Joanne Yao, "The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order" (Manchester UP, 2022)
39 mins; December 14, 2022
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 38 mins; December 06, 2022
Janet I. Lewis, "How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
56 mins; December 06, 2022
Ruti G. Teitel, "Transitional Justice" (Oxford UP, 2000)
58 mins; December 04, 2022
Burleigh Hendrickson, "Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar" (Cornell UP, 2022)
54 mins; December 03, 2022
Henni Alava, "Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
93 hours 40 mins; December 01, 2022
Ryan Thomas Skinner, "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
106 hours 47 mins; November 29, 2022
Florian Köhler, "Space, Place and Identity: Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century" (Berhahn Book, 2020)
53 mins; November 29, 2022
Kwasi Konadu, "Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal's African Empire" (Hurst, 2022)
114 hours 36 mins; November 28, 2022
Cajetan Iheka, "African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics" (Duke UP, 2021)
68 hours 15 mins; November 22, 2022
Dawne Y. Curry, "Social Justice at Apartheid's Dawn: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
80 hours 7 mins; November 21, 2022
Abiodun Alao, "Rage and Carnage in the Name of God: Religious Violence in Nigeria" (Duke UP, 2022)
55 mins; November 11, 2022
Jan Selby et al., "Divided Environments: An International Political Ecology of Climate Change, Water and Security" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
63 hours 10 mins; November 11, 2022
Cynthia Kros et al., "Archives of Times Past: Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History" ( Wits UP, 2022)
57 mins; November 11, 2022
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
75 hours 57 mins; November 03, 2022
Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 01, 2022
Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)
57 mins; October 24, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
125 hours 29 mins; October 24, 2022
Thomas E. Burman et al., "The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650" (U California Press, 2022)
59 mins; October 21, 2022
Scott Bukatman, "Black Panther" (U Texas Press, 2022)
71 hours 24 mins; October 21, 2022
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 6 mins; October 17, 2022
Camilla Hawthorne, "Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2022)
64 hours 5 mins; October 12, 2022
Anima Adjepong, "Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra" (UNC Press, 2021)
56 mins; October 11, 2022
Saheed Aderinto, "Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria" (Ohio UP, 2022)
59 mins; October 10, 2022
Robyn D'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" (Duke UP, 2022)
63 hours 52 mins; October 10, 2022
Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla, "Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story" (Pluto Press, 2021)
67 hours 12 mins; October 07, 2022
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; October 05, 2022
Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
61 hours 24 mins; October 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
52 mins; October 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit" (Hurst, 2019)
44 mins; October 01, 2022
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
22 mins; September 28, 2022
Zachary Levenson, "Delivery As Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City" (Oxford UP, 2022)
73 hours 23 mins; September 28, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
52 mins; September 26, 2022
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
62 hours 32 mins; September 23, 2022
Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada
32 mins; September 22, 2022
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
64 hours 29 mins; September 22, 2022
Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
52 mins; September 21, 2022
Adam A. Blackler, "An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
58 mins; September 20, 2022
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
61 hours 49 mins; September 16, 2022
L. L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster, "Sex in the Middle East and North Africa" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
64 hours 10 mins; September 08, 2022
Ian Campbell, "The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame" (Hurst, 2017)
111 hours 7 mins; September 07, 2022
Anthony Downey, "Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy Poverty)" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
82 hours 39 mins; September 01, 2022
Nicky Falkof, "Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa" (Manchester UP, 2022)
37 mins; August 19, 2022
Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
40 mins; August 19, 2022
Pascah Mungwini, "African Philosophy: Emancipation and Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
61 hours 17 mins; August 19, 2022
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