New Books in African Studies
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Erin C. MacLeod, "Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land" (NYU Press, 2014)
July 15, 2022
An interview with Erin C. MacLeod
Tony Perman, "Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
July 15, 2022
An interview with Tony Perman
Florian Wagner, "Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
July 07, 2022
An interview with Florian Wagner
Christopher Silver, "Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music Across Twentieth-Century North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2022)
July 04, 2022
An interview with Christopher Silver
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
June 29, 2022
An interview with Claire L. Wendland
Moses E. Ochonu, "Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity" (Indiana UP, 2022)
June 21, 2022
Emirs in London: Subalteran Travel and Nigeria's Modernity (Indiana UP, 2022) recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people.
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
June 21, 2022
An interview with Mark Fathi Massoud
Simidele Dosekun, "Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
June 17, 2022
An interview with Simidele Dosekun
Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
June 14, 2022
An interview with Alison F. Richard
Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021)
June 10, 2022
An interview with Martin Williams
Interviews with Scholars of Africa about their New Books
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