New Books in African Studies

New Books in African Studies


Latest Episodes

Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP)
June 06, 2024

The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Years War, though it isnt usually thought of that way. In the first few days of the quarantine and our current geopolitical and epid

Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
June 03, 2024

Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Tech, about her work on the history and ethnography of mobility and infrastructure in Ghana. Hart’s newest book, Making an African City: Tec

South Africa Goes to the Polls
May 31, 2024

A Discussion with Carolyn Holmes

Nisrin Elamin on the Conflict in Sudan
May 30, 2024

Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belonging, and empire-making in Sudan and the broader Sahel region. Elamin joins the Ufahamu Africa podcast fo

Democratic Crisis in Senegal
May 29, 2024

A Discussion with Bamba Ndiaye and Michelle D. Gavin

Maggie Messitt, "Newspaper" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
May 09, 2024

An interview with Maggie Messitt