Pan-African Futurism
In this episode, Dr. Reginald Royston (University of Wisconsin-Madison) explores his recent monograph, Pan-African Futurism (UC Press 2025)....
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The Africanist Podcast
This podcast investigates political, socio-economic, and cultural issues in contemporary Africa and the African Diasporas. It engages Africanist scholars, artists, activists, athletes, opini...
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20 of 49 episodesRhetorics of Value: An Interview with Dr. Corinne Kratz
This episode explores Dr. Corinne Kratz (Emory University) 's latest monograph, Rhetorics of Value (Duke University Press 2025) "In Rhetoric...
Hospitality and Power in the Teranga Republic
In this episode of The Africanist Podcast, host Bamba Ndiaye sits down with Dr. Emily Jinan Riley of El Colegio de México to explore her gro...
Mapping Defiance: Dr. Mark Deets on the Casamance Conflict
This episode of The Africanist Podcast features a rich and thought‑provoking conversation with Dr. Mark Deets of the American University in...
Tanzania’s Political Crisis: State, Protest, and Consequences
In this installment of our series Podcasting African Democracy, we sit down with Dr. Aikande Kwayu to unpack the turbulent aftermath of Tanz...
Textual Life: Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Politics of Knowledge
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Wendell H. Marsh (Mohammad VI Polytechnic University) to explore his groundbreaking book Textual Life:...
Insistent Presence: Reimagining the Human Figure, Histories & Identities
In this episode, Ph.D candidate, (in Art History) Margaret Nagawa discusses "Insistent Presence", her curated exhibition at Emory University...
Taxed to the Limit: Kenya’s Youth Uprising and the Fight for Economic Justice
This episode is the first installment of a new series entitled Podcasting African Democracy. It was recorded on August 5th, 2025. In this ep...
Sonic Scholarship: Teaching, Research and the Academic Podcast
In this special episode recorded live at the 2024 African Studies Association's Conference in Chicago, we delve into the vibrant world of ac...
Africanfuturism vs. Afrofuturism
Step into the imaginative realms of Africanfuturism in this insightful episode featuring Prof. Kimberly Cleveland of Georgia State Universit...
Projections of Dakar: A Conversation with Devin Bryson and Molly Krueger Enz
In this episode, Profs Devin Bryson (Illinois College) and Molly Krueger Enz (South Dakota State University) discuss their co-authored monog...
Shadows of Conflicts: Eastern DRC's War and Regional Tensions
NB: This episode was recorded on February 8, 2025. Since then, the conflict in Eastern DRC has dramatically evolved with more than 7000 fata...
Mozambique: Political Protest & Electoral Violence
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Natàlia Bueno, researcher at the Center for Social Studies (Coimbra University), to explore the recent...
Perfect Marriage: A Conversation with Ba Mulenga Kapwepwe
This episode is a conversation with distinguished Zambian writer and activist Ba Mulenga Kapwepwe, who was recently invited to Emory Univers...
Coup Attempt in The Democratic Republic of the Congo
On May 19, 2024, an attempted coup occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The assailants targeted President Félix Tsheseked...
Insignificant Things: A Conversation with Matthew Rarey
In this episode, Nyaradzai Mahachi (Emory University) discusses with Dr. Matthew Rarey (Oberlin College) about the latter's first monograph,...
The Demise of Senegalese Democracy?
In this conversation, Michelle Gavin (CFR), Rachel Beatty Riedl (Cornell University) and Bamba Ndiaye (Emory University) discuss the ongoing...
Islam & Anarchism: A Conversation with Mohamed Abdou
Co-Host: Eman Ghanayem In this episode, we discuss Mohamed Abdou's (Columbia University) Islam and Anarchism . "Islam and Anarchism is a hig...
Seeing the Unseen: A Conversation with Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
In this episode, Chelsy Monie and Dr. Susan Gagliardi (Emory University) discuss, the latter's recent monograph entitled Seeing the Unseen:...
Decolonizing the Mind: In Conversation with Ngūgī wa Thiong’o
In this episode, renowned Kenyan writer and thinker Ngūgī wa Thiong’o discusses crucial issues in African literature including the 1962 Afri...