Ufahamu Africa

In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read Laura Seay’s review of First Raise a Flag, a book about why South Sudan won the war but lost the peace by author and journalist Peter Martell. The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Ca...

Have a listen to this week’s review of Nanjala Nyabola’s (@Nanjala1) Digital Democracy Analogue Politics, published by Zed Books (@ZedBooks). The review was published on Friday as part of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular (#APSRS19), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage (@monkeycageblog), a blog on politics and political science at The Wa...

Anna Mwaba ( @AnnaKapambwe ), the McPherson/Eveillard Postdoctoral Fellow in Government at Smith College and the featured guest in Ufahamu Africa episode 25 , wrote this review of Foreign Intervention in Africa After the Cold War , a 2018 book written by Elizabeth Schmidt and published by Ohio University Press ( @OhioUnivPress ). In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read Mw...

In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read her review of Contradictions of Democracy: Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa , by Nicholas Rush Smith, published by Oxford University Press. The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular ( #APSRS19 ), and this recording is being shared as part of a c...

In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read her review of Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary , a biography by Peter Karibe Mendy, published by Ohio University Press. The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular ( #APSRS19 ), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboratio...

As they celebrate the end of the academic year in North America -- and their first as co-hosts -- have a listen to Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl talk about what ideas they have in store for next season.  Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com . 

In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read her review of Always Another Country, a memoir by South African writer Sisonke Msimang. The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular, and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Was...

In this week's episode, we start with news about LGBTQ rights in Botswana, Russian interference in African countries' domestic politics, and east African governments announcing increased spending on infrastructure. We also mention the upcoming book launch for Jeffrey Paller and Noah Nathan's respective books at CDD-Ghana on June 19th. This week’s conversation is with Susanna Wing (...

In this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne read Laura Seay's ( @texasinafrica ) review of Love Does Not Win Elections , a memoir by Ayisha Osori ( @Naijavote ). The review was published in this past Friday's installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular ( #APSRS19 ), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage ( @m...

We begin this week’s episode announcing an exciting collaboration with The Monkey Cage ( @monkeycageblog ) to feature bonus content each Monday morning -- a weekly reading of a book review from TMC’s African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular ( #APSRS19 ). Tune in on Monday! The news we cover this week includes recent events in Sudan, Kehinde Wiley’s artist residency in Dakar, a nuclear project i...

In this week's episode, we talk about Malawi's elections, the passing of Binyavanga Wainaina, and ethnic violence and displacement in Ethiopia. Our featured conversation is with Ato Kwamena Onoma , a political scientist currently serving as a senior program officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa ( @CODESRIA ). He is also the author of two books, A...

We start this week’s conversation with an update on the South African elections, but turn our focus to Malawi, which is scheduled to hold elections on Tuesday. We also talk about Facebook and fake news in African elections. Our featured conversation is with with Dr. Boniface Dulani ( @bonidulani ), a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Malawi, the fieldwork operations manager...

We start out episode this week talking about politics in Mali, South Africa's recent election and give you an update on the political situation in Uganda. We talk about the arrest earlier this week in Kenya of Boniface Mwangi, who we spoke with on our podcast during episode 35. This week’s conversation is with Dr. Maggie Dwyer ( @ MagDwyer ), a Lecturer in Africa and International Development...

Our show this week begins with the elections in Benin, peacekeeping in Liberia, elections in South Africa and Malawi, and the Caster Semenya gender and racing saga. We also share an update on Ugandan musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine. This week’s in-depth conversation is really special: it features a mashup of four podcasts: Ufahamu Africa, On Africa , Into Africa , and African Tech Roundup . T...

We begin this week's episode talking about Benin politics, a Malawian musician, the deployment of a malaria vaccine, a Russian company's involvement in Sudan's response to protesters, and the 25th anniversary of South Africa's elections ending the Apartheid regime. This week we feature a conversation with Abdourahmane Seck , an anthropologist and historian at the Faculty of Civ...

We start our episode this week talking about recent pieces on Sudan published in The Monkey Cage , the row between Uganda and Rwanda, African migrants stuck in Mexico, and the latest on events in Mali. This week's conversation is with Jeffrey Paller ( @JWPaller ), an assistant professor of politics at the University of San Francisco. He was formerly a fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia...

In this week's episode, we talk about Saharan Futures , protests and political change in Sudan, political maneuvering in Senegal, and what Cyclone Idai teaches us about governance of disasters and in urban spaces. Our featured guest this week is Hannah Armstrong ( @ brkinibeachriot ), the Senior Sahel consultant at the International Crisis Group. She has worked across North Africa and the Sah...

We begin this week's episode talking about the resignation of Algerian president Bouteflika, mistrust challenging response to the Ebola outbreak in Eastern Congo, and we mark the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. This week’s conversation is with Muna Ndulo, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International & Comparative Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Ndulo is an expert...

It may not be spring in the southern hemisphere, but up here in North America, Ufahamu Africa’s hosts are on Spring Break. Don’t worry, we’ll be back next week, when we talk about politics in Algeria, Ebola in DRC, and more. Our guest next week will be Muna Ndulo. Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com . 

We begin this week's episode discussing protests and democracy in Benin, the damage from Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and the consequences of climate change more broadly. Our featured conversation is with Khalid Medani, an Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies and the Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. He has published widely...

This week's episode begins with discussion of events in DRC, Malawi, and Algeria. We also talk about a new study showing how democracy is good for our health. Our featured conversation is with Sally Nuamah ( @sally_nuamah ), an assistant professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Her research sits at the intersections of race, gender, public education and political behavi...

This week's episode kicks off Women's History Month and celebrates International Women's Day, starting with a conversation about women's protest participation in Algeria and women's representation in politics in Africa more broadly. We also highlight critiques of the theme for International Women's Day 2019: #BalanceForBetter. Our conversation is with Professor Nyokab...

This week's episode features a lot of discussion on North Africa. In the news wrap, we cover the protests in Algeria and Sudan (as well as election results in Senegal and Nigeria). Our featured conversation for this week's episode is with Matt Buehler ( @ mattjbuehler ), an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee and Global Security Fellow at the Howard H....

This week's conversation is with Wendell Marsh ( @theafrabian ), an Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Buffet Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. He conducts research and teaches on the encounter of Islam and the African world as mediated in Arabic and vernacular texts. His segment begins...

Nigeria's elections have been postponed, but that didn't keep us from sharing our insightful conversation with Nicholas Kerr ( @nnkerr ) this week. Nicholas is an assistant professor of comparative politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. We talk about his research on electoral management bodies in Africa and in particular about his research on electi...