New Books in African Studies

801 Episodes

1. Alpha Nkuranga, "Born to Walk: My Journey of Trials and Resilience" (Goose Lane, 2024)

   Published: 7/7/2025
2. Brent Z. Kaup and Kelly F. Austin, "The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease" (U of California Press, 2025)

   Published: 7/4/2025
3. Tochi Onyebuchi, "Harmattan Season: A Novel" (Tor Books, 2025)

   Published: 6/29/2025
4. Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 6/23/2025
5. Emmanuel Akyeampong, "Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders" (Indiana UP, 2023)

   Published: 6/19/2025
6. Candace Lukasik, "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2025)

   Published: 6/18/2025
7. Ulf Laessing, "Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi" (Hurst, 2020)

   Published: 6/8/2025
8. Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)

   Published: 6/7/2025
9. Sarah Nagaty, "The Collective Dream: Egyptians Longing For A Better Life" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

   Published: 6/4/2025
10. Andrew Smith, "First People: The Lost History of the Khoisan" (Jonathan Ball, 2022)

    Published: 6/3/2025
11. Jonas Elbousty and Roger Allen, "Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives: Hunger in Eden" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 5/30/2025
12. Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)

    Published: 5/17/2025
13. William Jennings, "Dibia's World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation" (Liverpool UP, 2023)

    Published: 5/10/2025
14. Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "Spain’s African Colonial Legacies: Morocco and Equatorial Guinea Compared" (Brill, 2022)

    Published: 5/4/2025
15. Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)

    Published: 5/2/2025
16. Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

    Published: 4/27/2025
17. Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/26/2025
18. Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)

    Published: 4/24/2025
19. Bianca Murillo, "Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana" (Ohio UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/23/2025
20. Chitra Nagarajan, "The World Was in Our Hands: Voices from the Boko Haram Conflict" (Cassava Republic, 2025)

    Published: 4/18/2025