New Books in African Studies

New Books in African Studies


Latest Episodes

Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
August 31, 2021

An interview with Danny Adeno Abebe

Zakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
November 03, 2020

In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African disapora?

Chima J. Korieh, "Nigeria and World War II: Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
November 02, 2020

Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in the war against the Axis powers...

Sarah Longair, "Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964" (Routledge, 2015)
November 02, 2020

One of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate is the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum...

S. Wynne-Jones and A. LaViolette, "The Swahili World" (Routledge, 2017)
October 26, 2020

"The Swahili World" presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the eastern coast of Africa.,,

Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
October 21, 2020

Nurhussein explores late nineteenth and twentieth century African American cultural engagement with and literary depictions of imperial Ethiopia...

Chinua Thelwell, "Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
October 20, 2020

Thelwell offers a rich, well-researched, and sobering investigation of blackface minstrelsy as the “visual bedrock of a transcolonial cultural imaginary.”