New Books in African Studies
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
An interview with Sarah F. Derbew
NBN Classic: Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds?
NBN Classic: Hennie van Vuuren, "Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit" (Hurst, 2019)
This war machine, as van Vuuren describes it, remains a largely hidden aspect of South Africa’s past – until now...
Zachary Levenson, "Delivery As Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City" (Oxford UP, 2022)
An interview with Zachary Levenson
Reeva Spector Simon, "The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of World War II" (Routledge, 2019)
An interview with Reeva Spector Simon
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
An interview with Peter J. Kalliney
Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
An interview with Olúfemi Táíwò
Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada
A Discussion with Boubacar Boris Diop and Sarah Quesada
Martin Kalb, "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (Berghahn, 2022)
An interview with Martin Kalb