New Books in African Studies

Olufemi Taiwo, "Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto"

Olufemi Taiwo’s unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana...

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Amy Evrard, "The Moroccan Women's Rights Movement"

[Cross-posted from New Book in Gender Studies] Amy Evrard's first book, The Moroccan Women's...

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Ernest Harsch , "Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary"

Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the...

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Todd Cleveland, "Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds"

“Diamonds are forever” or “Blood diamonds”—the one a pithy marketing slogan showing how diamonds...

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Rebecca Rogers, "A Frenchwoman's Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Biography] In the early 1830s, the French school teacher Eugénie...

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Kwasi Konadu, "Transatlantic Africa, 1440-1888"

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Most of what we know about the trans-Atlantic slave...

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Deborah Mayersen, "On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide] I live and work in the state of Kansas in the US.  We...

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Toby Green, "The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589"

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Slavery was pervasive in the Ancient World: you can find...

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Samuel Totten, "Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] Most of the authors I've interviewed for this...

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Donovan Chau, "Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Political Science] Donovan Chau is the author of Exploiting...

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James Copnall, "A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce"

July 2011 saw that rarest of events – an attempt to resolve a conflict in Africa by the redrawing...

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Susan Thomson, "Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] This spring, I taught a class loosely called...

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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, "Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] Abena Dove Osseo-Asare’s...

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Sean D. Murphy, "Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Law] Professor Sean D. Murphy is the Patricia Roberts Harris...

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Ellen J. Amster, "Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Islamic Studies] What is the interplay between the physical human...

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Xolela Mangcu, "Biko: A Life"

Host Jonathan Judaken speaks with Xolela Mangcu, biographer of Anti-Apartheid leader Steve Biko,...

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Jennie Burnet, "Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Genocide Studies] In our fast-paced world, it is easy to move...

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Jennifer Sessions, "By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria"

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Early modern European imperialism is really pretty easy...

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Gabrielle Hecht, "Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] We tend to understand the...

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Lidwien Kapteijns, "Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991"

[Cross-posted from New Books in Human Rights] Lidwien Kapteijns is author of Clan Cleansing in...

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