New Books in African Studies

Eleonora Mattiacci

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Booking Overview

This academic interview series focuses on African studies and features scholars discussing recently published research and books with expert hosts. Credible pitches include university researchers, historians, political scientists, and authors of rigorous scholarship on African history, politics, society, and related fields; booking is moderately difficult because guests generally need a recent scholarly publication and established subject expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 889

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Eleonora Mattiacci - Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College and author of Volatile States in International Politics, published by Oxford University Press.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
University-affiliated scholars, researchers, and authors with specialized expertise in African studies or closely related fields and a recently published academic book.
Required Achievements:  
Published a recent scholarly book, Conducted original academic research or fieldwork, Held a university or research-institution appointment

Recent Guest Discussions

Marta Dominguez Diaz - Andalusian Cultural Identity In Tunisia, Minority Communities, Cultural Preservation, Assimilation, And North African Social History.

Cyanne E. Loyle - Transitional Justice, State Crimes, Government Impunity, Accountability, And Field Research In Rwanda, Uganda, And Northern Ireland.

Mesrob Vartavarian - Wealth Concentration, Privileged Minorities, Colonial And Postcolonial South Africa, Political Elites, And Structural Inequality.

Recent Topics

African Studies, History, Politics, Colonialism, Inequality

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
New Books in African Studies
:

Kelly M. Duke Bryant, "Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940" (U Mass Press, 2026)

July 21, 2026

Kelly M. Duke Bryant’s Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940 (U Mass Press, 2026)explores how colonial child protection policies and African children’s responses to them produced new ways of defining, measuring, documenting, and experiencing childhood in the French colony of Senegal from 1848 to 1940. In this groundbreaking book, Bryant takes the scholarship in new directions, offering to a literature dominated by studies of British co...

R. Joseph Parrott, "Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism" (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

July 21, 2026

Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) by Dr. R. Joseph Parrott explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970s and influenced American foreign policy as the Vietnam War drew to a close. These Portuguese African liberation movements, led by nationalists like Eduardo Mondlane and Am...

Cécile Bishop, "Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World" (Duke UP, 2026)

July 11, 2026

What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop argues that this seemingly simple question has no straightforward answer. Instead of treating race as something immediately visible, she explores how Blackness emerges through the interplay of perception, language, and history. A central theme of the book is that visibility is never neutral. Through examples ranging from photographs of the L...

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