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Episodes
143
Episodes in dataset
Apple Rating
4.8 / 5
28 Apple ratings
Cadence
Monthly
~every 29.0167 days
Since
Jan 15, 2008
First episode
Latest
Oct 17, 2025
Recently Active

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143 episodes for longitudinal research

Content Profile

Category
Education, History, News, Politics
Language
English
Region
United States
Content Rating
Clean or unspecified

Content Positioning

The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics

Recent Content Cues

Episode 143:
Oct 17, 2025
Episode 142:
Oct 01, 2025
Episode 141:
Sep 15, 2025

Recent Episodes

Episode 143:

Oct 17, 2025 46m

Reginold Royston (University of Wisconsin Madison) on his new book, Pan-African Futurism: Ghana and the Paradox of Technology for Development (University of California Press, 2025). He delves into…

Episode 142:

Oct 01, 2025 44m

Paul Landau (History, University of Maryland) on his award-winning book, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries (Ohio University Press, 2022). Landau begins by discussing the book’s origins and…

Episode 141:

Sep 15, 2025 40m

Bernard Moore (University of Basel) discusses his co-authored book, Space is the Ultimate Luxury: Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia (Brill, 2025, open access). He describes…

Episode 140:

Sep 02, 2025 49m

David William Cohen (Emeritus, History, University of Michigan) discusses his new book, The Weight of Lufu: Essays on Busoga before 1900 (Menha Publishers, 2025), with guest host Paul Landau. Drawing…

Episode 139:

Apr 04, 2025 44m

Dr. Claudia Gastrow (Anthropology, North Carolina State University) on her new book, The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda (University of North…

Episode 138:

Feb 28, 2025 36m

Dr. Benjamin Talton (Director, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University) on his eclectic intellectual journey as an historian of Africa and the Diaspora. The interview begins with a…

Episode 137:

Nov 25, 2024 37m

Afis Ayinde Oladosu (Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan) on being and becoming Muslim in Nigeria and Africa. Dr. Oladosu reflects on his journey to academia, positionality…

Episode 136:

Oct 02, 2024 39m

Lauren Jarvis (History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) on her new book, A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church (Michigan State University Press,…

Episode 135:

Jun 11, 2024 50m

Michelle Sikes (Kinesiology, African Studies, and History, Penn State University) on her new book, Kenya’s Running Women: A History (Michigan State University Press, 2023). The conversation begins…

Episode 134:

May 23, 2024 47m

Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi (History, University of the Free State) on his new book, Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in South Africa (Skotaville 2024). After…

Episode 133:

Dec 10, 2021 45m

Peter Mark (Emeritus, Art history, Wesleyan Univ.) on his personal and scholarly journeys through precolonial Mande worlds. He shares insights from decades of experience working with an eclectic…

Episode 132:

Sep 27, 2021 47m

Marissa Moorman (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, African Cultural Studies) on Angolan social history and media studies. We discuss the evolving trajectory of her scholarship, research in southern Africa…

Episode 131:

Jun 22, 2021 55m

Historian Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins Univ.) digs into her award-winning new book, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. The conversation brings out how…

Episode 130:

Mar 24, 2021 42m

Dr. Gerard Akindes discusses his experience playing and coaching basketball in West Africa and Europe, and the new Basketball Africa League. He considers the role of “electronic colonialism” in the…

Episode 129:

Dec 14, 2020 47m

Dr. Chambi Chachage (Princeton) discusses his intellectual journey from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town, Edinburgh, and Cambridge, Mass., his book manuscript on the history of Black entrepreneurs in Dar,…

Episode 128:

Dec 11, 2019 34m

Cherif Keita (French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College) reflects on his life as a scholar from Mali and on his documentary films about John Langalibalele Dube and Nokutela Dube, founding…

Episode 127:

Nov 05, 2019 35m

Kim Yi Dionne (Political Science, UC Riverside) on her recent book, Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa; the controversial May 2019 elections in Malawi, where she…

Episode 126:

Oct 22, 2019 50m

Elizabeth Schmidt (History, Loyola Maryland) on her activist beginnings and professional trajectory as an historian, first of Shona women in colonial Zimbabwe and later of Guinea’s independence…

Episode 125:

Apr 11, 2019 33m

Didier Gondola (IUPUI, History and Africana Studies) on his book, Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence, and Masculinity in Kinshasa. He reflects on how Hollywood Westerns shaped a performative young…

Episode 123:

Feb 28, 2019 37m

Alex Thurston (Miami University) discusses his recent book, Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. Taking local religious ideas and experiences seriously, Thurston sheds light on…

Publishing Analytics

Frequency
~every 29.0167 days
Monthly
Avg Duration
34m
Consistency
100%
Since
Jan 15, 2008
Latest
Oct 17, 2025

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Region
United States
Hosting
afripod.aodl.org

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