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Cheikh Anta Babou, "The Muridiyya on the Move: Islam, Migration, and Place Making" (Ohio UP, 2021)
85 hours 3 mins; October 21, 2021
Susanna Fioratta, "Global Nomads: An Ethnography of Migration, Islam, and Politics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
83 hours 42 mins; October 19, 2021
Sean Andrew Wempe, "Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations" (Oxford UP, 2019)
58 mins; October 06, 2021
Daniel Larsen, "Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
47 mins; September 30, 2021
Ousmane Oumar Kane, "Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts" (James Currey, 2021)
49 mins; September 24, 2021
Ebenezer Obadare, "Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria" (Zed Books, 2018)
68 hours 29 mins; September 22, 2021
Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
52 mins; August 31, 2021
Devaka Premawardhana, "Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
73 hours 10 mins; August 30, 2021
Aaron Y. Zelin, "Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia's Missionaries of Jihad" (Columbia UP, 2020)
62 hours 40 mins; August 27, 2021
Sarah J. Zimmerman, "Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire" (Ohio UP, 2021)
77 hours 16 mins; August 20, 2021
Leslie Anne Hadfield, "A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
66 hours 29 mins; August 17, 2021
Mai Hassan, "Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 11, 2021
Shelby Grossman, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
46 mins; August 04, 2021
Christopher J. Lee, "Kwame Anthony Appiah" (Routledge, 2021)
79 hours 38 mins; July 28, 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
49 mins; July 16, 2021
Rahul Rao, "Out of Time: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
54 mins; July 06, 2021
Monica Popescu, "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2020)
81 hours 24 mins; July 02, 2021
Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)
58 mins; June 15, 2021
Alice Elliot, "The Outside: Migration As Life in Morocco" (Indiana UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 11, 2021
Jonas Kreienbaum, "A Sad Fiasco: Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900–1908" (Berghahn Books, 2019)
55 mins; June 09, 2021
Judith Surkis, "Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930" (Cornell UP, 2019)
60 hours 43 mins; June 04, 2021
Hannah Hoechner, "Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty" (U Cambridge Press, 2018)
53 mins; May 28, 2021
Naminata Diabate, "Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
67 hours 13 mins; May 24, 2021
JoĂŁo JosĂŠ Reis, "Ganhadores: A greve negra de 1857 na Bahia" (Companhia das Letras, 2019)
82 hours 5 mins; May 12, 2021
S. Garnett Russell, "Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
41 mins; May 12, 2021
Catherine E. McKinley, "The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; April 29, 2021
Adom Getachew, "Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP, 2020)
45 mins; April 26, 2021
Christian A. Williams, "National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps" (Cambridge UP, 2015)
73 hours 41 mins; April 19, 2021
Michela Wrong, "Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
45 mins; April 16, 2021
Yuichiro Onishi and Fumiko Sakashita, "Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
58 mins; April 09, 2021
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
73 hours 21 mins; April 08, 2021
Emily Callaci, "Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania" (Duke UP, 2017)
63 hours 13 mins; April 07, 2021
Duane Jethro, "Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
59 mins; April 07, 2021
Smriti Srinivas et al., "Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds" (Routledge, 2020)
73 hours 53 mins; April 02, 2021
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
72 hours 24 mins; March 29, 2021
Dan Hicks, "The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution" (Pluto Books, 2020)
47 mins; March 25, 2021
Carolyn Holmes, "The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-building in Democratic South Africa" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
59 mins; March 25, 2021
Jeremy Best, "Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
59 mins; March 19, 2021
Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria" (Cornell UP, 2019)
62 hours 45 mins; March 16, 2021
Jonathan S. Holloway, "The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans" (Oxford UP, 2021)
45 mins; March 15, 2021
John M. Janzen, "Health in a Fragile State. Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo" (Wisconsin UP, 2019)
69 hours 55 mins; March 07, 2021
Yomaira C. Figueroa-VĂĄsquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
69 hours 54 mins; February 18, 2021
Nicholas Jepson, "In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South" (Columbia UP, 2019)
64 hours 29 mins; February 16, 2021
Jelmer Vos, "Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order" (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
81 hours 38 mins; February 16, 2021
Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press, 2016)
31 mins; February 12, 2021
Łukasz Stanek, "Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War" (Princeton UP, 2020)
44 mins; February 11, 2021
Tiffany N. Florvil, "Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
55 mins; February 03, 2021
Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa" (Harvard UP, 2017)
62 hours 42 mins; February 02, 2021
Matthew Gavin Frank, "Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa" (Liveright, 2021)
57 mins; January 28, 2021
Becky L. Schulthies, "Channeling Moroccanness: Language and the Media of Sociality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
59 mins; January 20, 2021
C. Decker and E. McMahon, "The Idea of Development in Africa: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
69 hours 55 mins; January 13, 2021
Steven Serels, "The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945" (Palgrave, 2018)
59 mins; January 11, 2021
Tara McIndoe-Calder, "Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe: Background, Impact, and Policy" (Palgrave, 2019)
48 mins; January 04, 2021
Narrating Africa in South Asia
101 hours 28 mins; December 31, 2020
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; December 31, 2020
Anne Garland Mahler, "From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity" (Duke UP, 2018)
34 mins; December 22, 2020
Constance Smith, "Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging" (James Currey, 2019)
67 hours 41 mins; December 22, 2020
Beatrice Nicolini, "Land and Maritime Empires in the Indian Ocean" (Educatt, 2017)
56 mins; December 21, 2020
Ana Beatriz Ribeiro, "Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises: A Global Studies Perspective on Brazil-Mozambique Development Discourse" (Brill, 2020)
56 mins; December 15, 2020
Brandon Mills, "The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
47 mins; December 14, 2020
Steven Fabian, "Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
105 hours 34 mins; December 14, 2020
Marissa J. Moorman, "Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931-2002" (Ohio UP, 2019)
64 hours 30 mins; December 10, 2020
Antoinette Burton, "Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race and the Politics of Postcolonial Citation" (Duke UP, 2016)
44 mins; December 10, 2020
Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
32 mins; December 07, 2020
Quito J. Swan, "Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice" (UP of Florida, 2020)
98 hours 6 mins; December 04, 2020
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, "Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation" (Stanford UP, 2020)
48 mins; December 04, 2020
Anne K. Bang, "Islamic Sufi Networks in the Western Indian Ocean (c.1880-1940): Ripples of Reform" (Brill, 2014)
97 hours 35 mins; December 03, 2020
Ned Bertz, "Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Space in Tanzania" (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
66 hours 20 mins; November 19, 2020
Christopher J. Lee, "Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives" (Ohio UP, 2019)
86 hours 7 mins; November 17, 2020
S. F. C. Daly, "A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
66 hours 3 mins; November 13, 2020
Pedro Machado, "Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds" (Ohio UP, 2020)
75 hours 23 mins; November 09, 2020
Ian Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
65 hours 3 mins; November 05, 2020
Zakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
53 mins; November 03, 2020
Sarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964" (Routledge, 2015)
58 mins; November 02, 2020
Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
77 hours 56 mins; November 02, 2020
Precariously Positioned: How Africa Must Balance Development with a Climate-Friendly Outlook
28 mins; October 26, 2020
S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette, "The Swahili World" (Routledge, 2017)
50 mins; October 26, 2020
Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
39 mins; October 21, 2020
Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
74 hours 28 mins; October 20, 2020
Alexis Wick, "The Red Sea In Search of Lost Space" (U California Press, 2016)
44 mins; October 12, 2020
Elleni Centime Zeleke, "Ethiopia in Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production, 1964-2016" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
55 mins; October 12, 2020
Matthew S. Hopper, "Slaves of One Master: Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire” (Yale UP, 2015)
66 hours 56 mins; October 08, 2020
Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)
87 hours 54 mins; October 05, 2020
François-Xavier Fauvelle, "The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages" (Princeton UP, 2018)
62 hours 31 mins; September 25, 2020
Stephanie Newell, "Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos" (Duke UP, 2019)
47 mins; September 24, 2020
Anais Angelo, "Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
61 hours 7 mins; September 23, 2020
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Killing Finally Led to International Reform (Part 2)
22 mins; September 23, 2020
Omar H. Ali, "Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2016)
35 mins; September 17, 2020
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa c. 1750-1802" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
55 mins; September 11, 2020
Sana Aiyar, "Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora" (Harvard UP, 2015)
89 hours 11 mins; September 10, 2020
Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Killing Finally Led to International Reform (Part 1)
18 mins; September 09, 2020
Jacob Mundy, "Libya" (Polity Press, 2018)
65 hours 7 mins; September 07, 2020
Jeff Schauer, "Wildlife between Empire and Nation in 20th-Century Africa" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
50 mins; September 02, 2020
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Mediterranean" (Little Brown, 2020)
32 mins; August 31, 2020
Jessica Marie Johnson, "Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
95 hours 42 mins; August 28, 2020
Hideaki Suzuki, "Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the 19th Century" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
76 hours 15 mins; August 27, 2020
Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
57 mins; August 26, 2020
Zachary Valentine Wright, "Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the 18th-Century Muslim World" (UNC Press, 2020)
66 hours 33 mins; August 21, 2020
Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650" (Palgrave, 2015)
33 mins; August 19, 2020
Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics" (Pennsylvania UP, 2019)
74 hours 13 mins; August 19, 2020
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