
Africa Past and Present is a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora. The show highlights interesting and significant people, ideas, and discussions in African Studies from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. Our mission is to broaden the availability and accessibility of cutting-edge knowledge relating to African experiences and to do so in a down-to-earth and informed manner. Shows feature interviews with eminent scholars and persons
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Episode 27: The San in Botswana and Namibia
Episode 25: African Identities and Genocide Studies
Episode 29: African Languages
Episode 33: The African Diaspora in Britain
Episode 35: African Identities in the Age of Obama
Africa Past and Present: Episode 16
Episode 28: Ethnicity and Power in Sudan’s Past
Episode 36: Endangered African Languages
Episode 44: Oral History and Memory Work in Africa
Episode 58: African Women in Politics
Episode 71: Ethnicity in Zimbabwe
Episode 24: Drugs and Gender in Tanzania
Episode 34: African Audiences
Africa Past and Present: Episode 23
Episode 38: South Africa — New Histories
Africa Past and Present: Episode 18
Episode 26: Elections in South Africa
Episode 23: Football/Soccer Politics and Migration
Episode 31: Garvey in Africa
Episode 32: Africa and the Indian Ocean
Episode 52: Zulu Intellectual History
Episode 64: The Life and Writings of A. B. Xuma
Episode 66: Miners, Marikana, and Photography
Episode 65: A Female King: Gender and Oral History in Eastern Nigeria
Episode 63: Noise and Silence, War and Peace in the Politics of DR Congo
Episode 62: Kingship, legitimacy, and violence in Rwanda and Eastern Congo
Episode 74: The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia
Episode 81: The Nigerian homefront in WWII, The Biafran War, and Igbo Identity
Episode 43: Reflections on Africa’s First World Cup
Africa Past and Present: Episode 3
Episode 21: Transnational Islam
Episode 30: Garvey, Africa, and the African Diaspora
Afripod 40: Africa’s Global Past
Episode 53: The Impact of US government cuts on African Studies
Episode 76: Black Travelers, Writers and Activists in Africa and the Diaspora
Africa Past and Present: Episode 6
Africa Past and Present: Episode 8
Africa Past and Present: Episode 4
Africa Past and Present: Episode 10
Africa Past and Present: Episode 11
Africa Past and Present: Episode 5
Africa Past and Present: Episode 9
Africa Past and Present: Episode 19
Africa Past and Present Episode 20
Africa Past and Present: Episode 21
Episode 22: Malawi’s Environmental History
Episode 30: Garvey and the African Diaspora
Episode 42: Senegal, Women in Islam, Public Intellectuals, and David Robinson
Episode 41: 2010 World Cup and Grassroots Soccer
Episode 45: Terence Ranger and the Making of History in Africa
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