Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination

Jeremy Harding has long been one of the premier essayists and journalists of our day. Elegant, committed and free of cant, Harding's writing has often appeared in the London Review of Books, from which a number of these essays were drawn. Harding explores the intersection of politics and culture on the African continent, and unearths stories that explain the dialectical relations between the two spheres during the colonial and post-colonial moments. Never heavy-handed, Harding's mode is the exploratory, and one comes away from his nuanced narratives edified. Discussed in the podcast are several of Harding's pieces, including the complicated and unanticipated journey of Kamel Daoud in his rewriting of Camus's The Stranger, and Camus's own ambivalent legacy around colonial rule. Read the transcript here. Leonard Benardo is a vice president for the Open Society Foundations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member!

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Jeremy Harding's Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination is an episode from New Books in African Studies by New Books Network.

This episode is 49:55 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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