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New Books in African Studies
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Erik Gellman, "Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art Shay" (Chicago UP, 2020)
47 mins; August 13, 2020
Nwando Achebe, "Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa" (Ohio UP, 2020)
64 hours 26 mins; August 10, 2020
Charles Piot, "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles" (Duke UP, 2019)
60 hours 26 mins; August 10, 2020
N. Achebe and C. Robertson, "Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
64 hours 25 mins; August 05, 2020
Mari K. Webel, "The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920" (Ohio UP, 2019)
80 hours 46 mins; August 03, 2020
Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
76 hours 29 mins; August 03, 2020
Laura S. Grillo, "An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa" (Duke UP, 2018)
79 hours 55 mins; July 23, 2020
Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)
110 hours 7 mins; July 22, 2020
Assan Sarr, "Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin" (Rochester UP, 2016)
45 mins; July 21, 2020
R. S. Dieng and A. O'Reilly, "Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond" (Demeter Press, 2020)
96 hours 28 mins; July 21, 2020
Will Rollason, "Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets" (Lexington Books, 2020)
58 mins; July 20, 2020
Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madih Poetry and its Precedents" (Islamic Texts Society, 2020)
57 mins; July 17, 2020
Kara Moskowitz, "Seeing Like A Citizen" (Ohio UP, 2019)
52 mins; July 07, 2020
J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
66 hours 52 mins; July 07, 2020
Alanna O’Malley, "The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain, and the United Nations during the Congo Crisis, 1960-1964" (Manchester UP, 2020)
62 hours 13 mins; June 26, 2020
Steven J. L. Taylor, "Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators: African Americans in Ghana" (SUNY Press, 2019)
56 mins; June 24, 2020
Ken O. Opalo, "Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
73 hours 42 mins; June 19, 2020
Lynn M. Thomas, "Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners" (Duke UP, 2020)
57 mins; June 15, 2020
Neil Roberts on How Ideas Become Books in Africana and AfroAm Studies
86 hours 11 mins; June 09, 2020
Mauro Nobili, "Sultan, Caliph, and the Renewer of the Faith" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
58 mins; June 09, 2020
Joyce E. Leader, "From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide" (Potomac Books, 2020)
79 hours 20 mins; June 05, 2020
Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)
71 hours 2 mins; June 04, 2020
Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020)
59 mins; June 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a New History" (Yale UP, 2019)
57 mins; June 02, 2020
Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization" (UNC Press, 2017)
61 hours 4 mins; June 01, 2020
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
41 mins; May 25, 2020
Kwasi Konadu, "In Our Own Way In this Part of the World" (Duke UP, 2019)
62 hours 36 mins; May 07, 2020
Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa" (James Currey, 2019)
64 hours 14 mins; May 04, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 01, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain" (Penn State UP, 2019)
78 hours 14 mins; March 20, 2020
Christopher J. Lee, "Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa" (Duke UP, 2014)
84 hours 43 mins; March 18, 2020
How the Yoruba Live: Islamic Teachings Shape an Inter-religious Modern World
12 mins; March 11, 2020
David Morton, "Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique" (Ohio UP, 2019)
91 hours 19 mins; March 03, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Eddie Michel, "The White House and White Africa" (Routledge, 2018)
40 mins; February 19, 2020
Peter Cole, "Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
69 hours 12 mins; February 19, 2020
Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)
81 hours 21 mins; February 13, 2020
Julie MacArthur, "Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion" (Ohio UP, 2017)
61 hours 37 mins; February 11, 2020
Roberto Strongman, "Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou" (Duke UP, 2019)
44 mins; February 04, 2020
Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)
61 hours 53 mins; February 04, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
39 mins; January 30, 2020
Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine" (Duke UP, 2016)
47 mins; January 21, 2020
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
48 mins; January 15, 2020
Judi Rever, "In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front" (Random House, 2018)
61 hours 43 mins; January 14, 2020
Gillian Glaes, "African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 2 mins; December 31, 2019
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)
40 mins; December 31, 2019
Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
38 mins; December 27, 2019
Benjamin Breen, "The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade" (U Penn Press, 2019)
61 hours 47 mins; December 26, 2019
Great Books: Manthia Diawara on Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
39 mins; December 24, 2019
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)
72 hours 12 mins; December 23, 2019
Miriam Driessen, "Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia" (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
30 mins; December 13, 2019
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
52 mins; December 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, "Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
45 mins; December 02, 2019
Adeline M. Masquelier, "Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
89 hours 44 mins; November 20, 2019
David Wheat, "Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640" (UNC Press, 2016)
61 hours 38 mins; November 18, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Naleli Morojele, "Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa: Narratives of Triumph and Loss" (Barbara Budrich 2016)
46 mins; October 23, 2019
Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa" (Hurst, 2019)
74 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2019
Jennifer L. Derr, "The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2019)
51 mins; October 10, 2019
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
56 mins; September 18, 2019
Shayne Legassie, "The Medieval Invention of Travel" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
40 mins; September 06, 2019
Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
50 mins; August 26, 2019
Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
60 hours 14 mins; August 15, 2019
David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State" (Stanford UP, 2019)
54 mins; July 29, 2019
Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
81 hours 45 mins; July 26, 2019
Reinhart Kössler, "Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past" (U Namibia Press, 2015)
60 hours 39 mins; July 24, 2019
Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, "Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories" (Peter Lang, 2018)
69 hours 30 mins; July 03, 2019
Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait of Gibraltar and the Making of the Hispano-African Border" (Stanford UP, 2019)
60 hours 54 mins; July 01, 2019
Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuana" (Duke UP, 2019)
51 mins; June 24, 2019
Joseph Hill, "Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
63 hours 55 mins; June 19, 2019
Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Africa: Reimagining the Dark Continent in American Culture, 1884-1936" (U Georgia Press, 2011)
27 mins; June 17, 2019
Dannel Jones, "An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor" (Hurst, 2018)
64 hours 0 mins; June 12, 2019
Jane Hooper, "Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600-1800" (Ohio UP, 2017)
32 mins; June 10, 2019
Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018)
28 mins; June 07, 2019
Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean" (U Penn Press, 2018)
59 mins; June 05, 2019
Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c. 1770 -1830" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
48 mins; May 29, 2019
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; May 17, 2019
Andrew Wallis, "Stepp’d in Blood:  Akazu and the Architects of the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis" (Zero Books, 2019)
66 hours 51 mins; May 16, 2019
Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun" (Indiana UP, 2018)
72 hours 22 mins; May 09, 2019
CaitlĂ­n EilĂ­s Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; May 07, 2019
Jeremy Black, "Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World" (Encounter Books, 2019)
47 mins; May 01, 2019
James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Malaria in Tropical Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
69 hours 6 mins; April 24, 2019
Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror" (Ohio UP, 2018)
60 hours 17 mins; April 15, 2019
Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade and Slavery in the Atlantic World" (UNC Press, 2018)
50 mins; April 02, 2019
Kathleen Keller, "Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
61 hours 43 mins; April 01, 2019
Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
52 mins; March 22, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Chet Van Duzer, "Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence" (Springer, 2019)
61 hours 16 mins; March 01, 2019
Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precarious Peace" (Yale UP, 2018)
59 mins; February 25, 2019
Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam" (U California Press, 2018)
54 mins; January 30, 2019
Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
51 mins; January 29, 2019
Calvin Schermerhorn, "Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
58 mins; January 25, 2019
Jesse A. Zink, "Christianity and Catastrophe in South Sudan: Civil War, Migration, and the Rise of Dinka Anglicanism" (Baylor UP, 2018)
41 mins; January 07, 2019
Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World" (U California Press, 2018)
40 mins; January 02, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
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