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Listen to Africa Past & Present » Afripod, a History podcast by Africa Past and Present. Stream 143 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

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Episode 143:

Reginold Royston (University of Wisconsin Madison) on his new book, Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Developmen...

0:46:03Oct 17, 2025

Episode 142:

Paul Landau (History, University of Maryland) on his award-winning book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Ohio University Press, 2022...

0:44:22Oct 1, 2025

Episode 141:

Bernard Moore (University of Basel) discusses his co-authored book, Space is the Ultimate Luxury: Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestr...

0:40:36Sep 15, 2025

Episode 140:

David William Cohen (Emeritus, History, University of Michigan) discusses his new book, The Weight of Lufu: Essays on Busoga before 1900 (Me...

0:49:42Sep 2, 2025

Episode 139:

Dr. Claudia Gastrow (Anthropology, North Carolina State University) on her new book, The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and Ci...

0:44:52Apr 4, 2025

Episode 138:

Dr. Benjamin Talton (Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University) on his eclectic intellectual journey as an historian of...

0:36:40Feb 28, 2025

Episode 137:

Afis Ayinde Oladosu (Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan) on being and becoming Muslim in Nigeria and Africa. Dr....

0:37:08Nov 25, 2024

Episode 136:

Lauren Jarvis (History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) on her new book, A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of...

0:39:27Oct 2, 2024

Episode 135:

Michelle Sikes (Kinesiology, African Studies and History, Penn State University) on her new book, Kenya’s Running Women: A History (Michigan...

0:50:27Jun 11, 2024

Episode 134:

Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi (History, University of the Free State) on his new book, Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle a...

0:47:43May 23, 2024

Episode 133:

Peter Mark (Emeritus, Art history, Wesleyan Univ.) on his personal and scholarly journeys through precolonial Mande worlds. He shares insigh...

0:45:59Dec 10, 2021

Episode 132:

Marissa Moorman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, African Cultural Studies) on Angolan social history and media studies. We discuss the evolving...

0:47:57Sep 27, 2021

Episode 131:

Historian Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins Univ.) digs into her award-winning new book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom...

0:55:57Jun 22, 2021

Episode 130:

Dr. Gerard Akindes discusses his experience playing and coaching basketball in West Africa and Europe, and the new Basketball Africa League....

0:42:54Mar 24, 2021

Episode 129:

Dr. Chambi Chachage (Princeton) discusses his intellectual journey from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town, Edinburgh, and Cambridge, Mass., his boo...

0:47:48Dec 14, 2020

Episode 128:

Cherif Keita (French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College) reflects on his life as a scholar from Mali and on his documentary films abo...

0:34:26Dec 11, 2019

Episode 127:

Kim Yi Dionne (Political Science, UC Riverside) on her recent book, Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa;...

0:35:20Nov 5, 2019

Episode 126:

Elizabeth Schmidt (History, Loyola Maryland) on her activist beginnings and professional trajectory as an historian, first of Shona women in...

0:50:33Oct 22, 2019

Episode 125:

Didier Gondola (IUPUI, History and Africana Studies) on his book, Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa. He refl...

0:33:55Apr 11, 2019

Episode 123:

Alex Thurston (Miami University) discusses his recent book, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Taking local religious...

0:37:49Feb 28, 2019

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