New Books in African Studies
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Have We Entered a New Era of African Politics and International Relations?
An interview with Mwita Chacha and Obert Hodzi
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
An interview with Yan Slobodkin
Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
An interview with Xavier Luffin
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Sara Byala
Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean" (Anthem Press, 2023)
Usually, discourses on the planetary evolution and the movements of slaves remain restricted within the narratives and scholarships of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and hardly engage with the evolution, movements, and shifts about the Indian Ocean World
Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
An interview with Amir Al-Azraki
Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
An interview with Musab Younis
B Camminga, "Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa: Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
An interview with B Camminga
David Veevers, "The Great Defiance: How the World Took on the British Empire" (Ebury Press, 2023)
An interview with David Veevers
Lesley Nicole Braun, "Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
An interview with Lesley Nicole Braun