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On Bengt Sundkler's "Bantu Prophets in South Africa"
21 mins; August 18, 2022
Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering, "African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers, and Rebel Forces" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
66 hours 58 mins; August 18, 2022
Annah Lake Zhu, "Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China" (Harvard UP, 2022)
36 mins; August 18, 2022
Paul Naylor, "From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State" (James Currey, 2021)
47 mins; August 17, 2022
Eva-Maria Muschik, "Building States: The United Nations, Development, and Decolonization, 1945–1965" (Columbia UP, 2022)
53 mins; August 16, 2022
Kristen A. Harkness, "When Soldiers Rebel: Ethnic Armies and Political Instability in Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
52 mins; August 12, 2022
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Atlantic" (Robinson, 2022)
41 mins; August 12, 2022
Blake Whitaker, "Built on the Ruins of Empire: British Military Assistance and African Independence" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
78 hours 3 mins; August 10, 2022
Yaniv Voller, "Second-Generation Liberation Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
54 mins; August 03, 2022
Vanda Wilcox, "The Italian Empire and the Great War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
81 hours 3 mins; August 01, 2022
Maeve Ryan, "Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System" (Yale UP, 2022)
61 hours 46 mins; July 25, 2022
Philippe Denis, "The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial" (James Currey, 2022)
58 mins; July 17, 2022
Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
49 mins; July 15, 2022
Tony Perman, "Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
42 mins; July 15, 2022
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
57 mins; July 07, 2022
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
103 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2022
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
52 mins; June 29, 2022
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
74 hours 13 mins; June 21, 2022
Moses E. Ochonu, "Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity" (Indiana UP, 2022)
91 hours 8 mins; June 21, 2022
Simidele Dosekun, "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
69 hours 50 mins; June 17, 2022
Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
69 hours 3 mins; June 14, 2022
Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
51 mins; June 10, 2022
Evan Lieberman, "Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa After Apartheid" (Princeton UP, 2022)
44 mins; June 01, 2022
Ariela Marcus-Sells, "Sorcery or Science?: Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
66 hours 0 mins; May 27, 2022
Shoko Yamada, "Dignity of Labour for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School" (Langaa RPCIG, 2018)
61 hours 52 mins; May 26, 2022
Adam Day, "States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance: Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 25, 2022
Jacob Doherty, "Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability" (U California Press, 2021)
50 mins; May 18, 2022
Sally Hayden, "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" (Melville House, 2022)
64 hours 50 mins; May 17, 2022
Paddy Docherty, "Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin" (Hurst, 2022)
75 hours 7 mins; May 17, 2022
Sarah G. Phillips, "When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; May 16, 2022
Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)
66 hours 11 mins; May 11, 2022
Karen Samantha Barton, "Africa’s Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster" (Lexington Books, 2020)
101 hours 17 mins; May 11, 2022
Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)Megan Brown, "The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community" (Harvard UP, 2022)
64 hours 55 mins; May 06, 2022
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
65 hours 55 mins; May 05, 2022
Paul Darby et al., "African Football Migration: Aspirations, Experiences and Trajectories" (Manchester UP, 2022)
83 hours 33 mins; May 04, 2022
Anna von Rath, "Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin" (Peter Lang, 2022)
54 mins; May 04, 2022
Shobana Shankar, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race" (Oxford UP, 2021)
62 hours 12 mins; April 29, 2022
Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
37 mins; April 29, 2022
Christopher Tounsel, "Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan" (Duke UP, 2021)
53 mins; April 28, 2022
Amadou Hampâté Bâ, "Amkoullel: The Fula Boy" (Duke UP, 2021)
45 mins; April 26, 2022
Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
52 mins; April 21, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
55 mins; April 20, 2022
Simon Peter Newman, "Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London" (U London Press, 2022)
39 mins; April 19, 2022
Hilton Judin, "Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital" (Routledge, 2021)
26 mins; April 19, 2022
The Future of the Far Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Timothy Snyder
38 mins; April 19, 2022
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
123 hours 13 mins; April 08, 2022
Jared Staller, "Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670" (Ohio UP, 2019)
73 hours 39 mins; April 07, 2022
Jochen Lingelbach, "On the Edges of Whiteness: Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
68 hours 0 mins; April 06, 2022
Jonathan Fisher and Nina Wilén, "African Peacekeeping" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; April 04, 2022
Marie Muschalek, "Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa" (Cornell UP, 2019)
61 hours 22 mins; March 31, 2022
Elisabeth King and Cyrus Samii, "Diversity, Violence, and Recognition: How Recognizing Ethnic Identity Promotes Peace" (Oxford UP, 2020)
40 mins; March 29, 2022
Serena Owusua Dankwa, "Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
61 hours 22 mins; March 24, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
74 hours 21 mins; March 24, 2022
Pardis Sabeti and Lara Salahi, "Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue" (Harvard UP, 2021)
29 mins; March 18, 2022
Brian J. Peterson, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
66 hours 48 mins; March 17, 2022
The Future of Africa: A Discussion with James A. Robinson
48 mins; March 15, 2022
Vicki L. Brennan, "Singing Yoruba Christianity: Music, Media, and Morality" (Indiana UP, 2018)
62 hours 34 mins; March 08, 2022
Carol Berger, "The Child Soldiers of Africa's Red Army: The Role of Social Process and Routinised Violence in South Sudan's Military" (Routledge, 2022)
58 mins; March 04, 2022
Candace M. Keller, "Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
85 hours 44 mins; February 28, 2022
Michelle Gordon, "Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
57 mins; February 25, 2022
Eghosa Imasuen, "Fine Boys: A Novel" (Ohio UP, 2021)
86 hours 36 mins; February 22, 2022
Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 18, 2022
3.2 Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies
47 mins; February 17, 2022
Afe Adogame, "Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
100 hours 23 mins; February 11, 2022
Phillip A. Cantrell, "Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
51 mins; February 10, 2022
James S. Williams, "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
69 hours 6 mins; February 08, 2022
Marco Wyss, "Postcolonial Security: Britain, France, and West Africa's Cold War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; February 07, 2022
Alexander Dukalskis, "Making the World Safe for Dictatorship" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; February 02, 2022
Erin Jessee et al., "Nyiragitwa: Daughter of Sacyega" (Mudacumura, 2021)
36 mins; January 31, 2022
Omar Ashour, "How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
60 hours 19 mins; January 31, 2022
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, "The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
59 mins; January 28, 2022
Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
45 mins; January 25, 2022
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl, "Quagmire in Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
44 mins; January 19, 2022
Rebekah Lee, "Health, Healing and Illness in African History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
77 hours 45 mins; January 17, 2022
Julie Kleinman, "Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris" (U California Press, 2019)
57 mins; January 14, 2022
Charles Melson, "Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence" (Casemate Academic, 2021)
41 mins; January 06, 2022
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
58 mins; December 31, 2021
Mesfin Tadesse and Ianet Bastyan, "Lucy's People: An Ethiopian Memoir" (Yerada Lij, 2021)
160 hours 52 mins; December 29, 2021
Isaac A. Kamola, "Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary" (Duke UP, 2019)
97 hours 25 mins; December 29, 2021
Nicole Fox, "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
66 hours 29 mins; December 28, 2021
Lennart Bolliger, "Apartheid's Black Soldiers: Unnational Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa" (Ohio UP, 2021)
77 hours 42 mins; December 21, 2021
Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
57 mins; December 20, 2021
Jocelyn Hendrickson, "Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa" (Harvard UP, 2020)
65 hours 53 mins; December 17, 2021
Matthew H. Brown, "Indirect Subjects: Nollywood's Local Address" (Duke UP, 2021)
100 hours 18 mins; December 15, 2021
Retief Muller, "The Scots Afrikaners: Identity Politics and Intertwined Religious Cultures in Southern and Central Africa" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
76 hours 28 mins; December 10, 2021
Noémi Tousignant, "Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
46 mins; December 09, 2021
Tim Hartman, "Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity" (Fortress Press, 2022)
69 hours 36 mins; December 08, 2021
Drew A. Thompson, "Filtering Histories: The Photographic Bureaucracy in Mozambique, 1960 to Recent Times" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
85 hours 34 mins; December 06, 2021
Anne Hugon, "Etre mère en situation coloniale: Gold Coast (années 1910-1950)" (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020)
64 hours 8 mins; December 06, 2021
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
67 hours 59 mins; December 01, 2021
An Ethnography of Tourism and Globalization: In Conversation with Dr. Annie Hikido
45 mins; November 29, 2021
Robin J. Hayes, "Love for Liberation: African Independence, Black Power, and a Diaspora Underground" (U Washington Press, 2021)
66 hours 2 mins; November 26, 2021
Ndubueze L. Mbah, "Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the Biafran Atlantic Age" (Ohio UP, 2019)
74 hours 11 mins; November 16, 2021
Andrew Farrand, "The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity" (New Degree Press, 2021)
57 mins; November 15, 2021
April Sizemore-Barber, "Prismatic Performances: Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
61 hours 1 min; November 15, 2021
Anne Meng, "Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
79 hours 39 mins; November 12, 2021
Ben Guest, "Zen and the Art of Coaching Basketball: A Namibian Odyssey" (2021)
56 mins; November 11, 2021
Anna Hedlund, "Hutu Rebels: Exile Warriors in the Eastern Congo" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
46 mins; November 10, 2021
Gregg Mitman, "Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia" (New Press, 2021)
39 mins; November 02, 2021
Max Siollun, "What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule" (Hurst, 2021)
66 hours 58 mins; October 27, 2021
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