There is something incredibly powerful about listening in on a conversation. In college, I created and hosted an award-winning radio show. During the pandemic, I returned to the format, beginning to record podcasts more regularly. Not only are they a wonderful way to broaden the audience of academic work, but they are a way to tell the story behind the story — which is what every historian is really looking for.
Scroll below to listen to interviews with authors of newly published books that I recorded for the New Books Network.
Click here to listen to my interview on the History: the Journal of the Historical Association podcast and on Mes Clichés Africains / My African Clichés.
Scroll below to listen to interviews with authors of newly published books that I recorded for the New Books Network.
Click here to listen to my interview on the History: the Journal of the Historical Association podcast and on Mes Clichés Africains / My African Clichés.
2024.03.27 - Ghana: A Political and Social History by Jeffrey Ahlman
2023.11.23 - On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
2023.08.19 - A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili by Morgan J. Robinson
2023.02.05 - Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South by Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman
2023.01.10 - Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968 by Alessandro Iandolo
2022.12.03 - Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar by Burleigh Hendrickson
2022.07.07 - Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982 by Florian Wagner
2022.05.26 - 'Dignity of Labour' for African Leaders: The Formation of Education Policy in the British Colonial Office and Achimota School by Shoko Yamada
2022.04.26 - Amkoullel: The Fula Boy by Amadou Hampâté Bâ
2021.09.24 - Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts by Ousmane Oumar Kane
2021.08.12 - Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana by Alice Wiemers
2021.07.19 - The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex by Christian Ydesen
2021.01.13 - The Idea of Development in Africa: A History by Corrie Decker and Elisabeth McMahon
2020.12.10 - Powerful Frequencies: Radio State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931-2002 by Marissa J. Moorman
2020.09.25 - The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages by François-Xavier Fauvelle
2020.08.05 - Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson
2020.07.23 - An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa by Laura S. Grillo
2020.06.15 - Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners by Lynn M. Thomas