New Books in African Studies

New Books in African Studies


Latest Episodes

Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)
June 04, 2020

De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of wild foods for an agricultural people in south central Africa around the turn of the first millennium....

Frank Wilderson III, "Afropessimism" (Liveright, 2020)
June 03, 2020

How should we understand the pervasiveness – and virulence – of anti-Black violence in the United State?

Nemata Blyden, "African Americans and Africa: a New History" (Yale UP, 2019)
June 02, 2020

“What is Africa to me?”, African-American writer Countee Cullen asked in "Color."

Monique A. Bedasse, "Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization" (UNC Press, 2017)
June 01, 2020

Bedasse examines Rastafarian reparation to Tanzania in the 1970s and 1980s...

M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
May 25, 2020

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

Kwasi Konadu, "In Our Own Way In this Part of the World" (Duke UP, 2019)
May 07, 2020

Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual...

Anne Heffernan, "Limpopo’s Legacy, Student Politics and Democracy in South Africa" (James Currey, 2019)
May 04, 2020

Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
April 28, 2020

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)
April 01, 2020

Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...