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Episode 73: Namibia: Herero Protest, Prophecy and Private Archives
Red/White Flag Herero: courtesy Dag Henrichsen Dag Henrichsen (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel) on protest and prophecy among Herero intellectuals in 1940s Namibia. Also discussed are the 1904-5...
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Episode 74: The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia
Geographer Abdi Samatar (U. Minnesota; President of the U.S. African Studies Association) on pirates and piracy off the Somali coast; the complexities and inequalities between “fish pirates” and other...
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Episode 75: Radio and Resistance in South Africa
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi (U. Witwatersrand/Michigan) on radio, ethnicity and knowledge production in South Africa, both apartheid’s Bantu Radio and the liberation movement’s Radio Freedom, including...
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Episode 76: Black Travelers, Writers and Activists in Africa and the Diaspora
David Killingray (Emeritus, Goldsmiths College, U. of London) on the often-neglected role of African travelers and intermediaries in 19th-century Africa; black writers and activists in Victorian...
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Episode 77: Barry Gilder’s Songs and Secrets
Barry Gilder, South African folk singer and ex-ANC intelligence operative, is the author of Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance. In the interview, he reflects on freedom...
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Episode 78: Spirituality in Central African History
David Gordon (Bowdoin, History) on his recent book Invisible Agents: Spirits in a Central African History. Gordon explores how and why spirits and discourses about spirits inspired social movements and...
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Episode 79: Biographies and Databases of Atlantic Slaves, Part 1
Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, discusses building an international database of biographical information on all enslaved Africans. He outlines this...
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Episode 80: Biographies and Databases of Atlantic Slaves, Part 2
David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University, on the making of the Transatlantic Slave Trade database, a landmark collaborative digital project he has co-edited for two...
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Episode 91: African and American Ports–Solidarities in Durban and San Francisco
Boycotting South African goods, San Francisco, 1962. Used by permission of ILWU. Peter Cole (Western Illinois, SWOP [Wits]) compares Durban and San Francisco, maritime union solidarities, the...
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Episode 92: Football, Power, and Identity in Zambia
Hikabwa Decius Chipande (PhD 2015 Michigan State) on the political and social history of football (soccer) in Zambia. He discusses becoming an historian; the game’s relationship with British...
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Episode 93: Atlantic Bonds and Biography: from South Carolina to Nigeria
Lisa Lindsay (North Carolina) on her forthcoming biography of James Churchwill Vaughan—whose life provides insights into the bonds of slavery and family and the differing prospects for people of...
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Episode 94: The Bomb, a Professor, and Higher Education in South Africa
Professor Renfrew Christie (University of the Western Cape) on South African advances and challenges since 1994; educational transformations at UWC; his role as an anti-apartheid student activist,...
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Episode 95: Nigerian Politics and Society in Cartoon Art
Cartoon courtesy of Jimga Ganiyu Akinloye Jimoh (Creative Arts, University of Lagos) on his work in Nigeria as a popular cartoonist, with the pen name “Jimga,” and as a cartoon scholar. Issues...
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Episode 96: Creativity and Decolonization: Nigerian Cultures and African...
Toyin Falola (History, Texas; President, African Studies Association) on Yoruba history and culture; language policy in Nigeria; creativity and decolonization; forms of community action in...
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Episode 97: Reproductive Rights in South Africa
Susanne Klausen (History, Carleton U.) on the history and politics of women’s reproductive rights in South Africa. Our discussion of race, nationalism, and women’s sexuality focuses on her new book,...
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Episode 98: City of Thorns—Inside the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Author Ben Rawlence (Open Society Foundations Fellow) on his new book: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp. He describes working in Dadaab, Kenya, and discusses Somali...
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Episode 99: Artisanal Mining in Tanzania
Anthropologist Rosemarie Mwaipopo (U. of Dar es Salaam) on artisanal and small-scale mining in Tanzania. She discusses the roles of women;grassroots dimensions, including cultural and gender dynamics;...
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Episode 100: The Afripod Centenary Special
This centenary episode brings together selections from the first eight years of the podcast. The chosen segments broadly represent earliest and latest episodes, different African countries and regions,...
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Episode 101: Corpulence, Cartoonists, and Politics
Tejumola Olaniyan (Wisconsin–Madison) on African cartoonists, their depictions of the body and struggles with censorship, and the aesthetics of corpulence in African political cartooning. He elaborates...
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Episode 102: Photojournalism and the “Real Story of the Marikana Massacre”...
Marikana, South Africa. September 5, 2012. Striking Lonmin miners. Photo Greg Marinovich Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Greg Marinovich (Boston University) on the genealogy and ethics of his...
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