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: 887

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
:

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...

Marta Dominguez Diaz, "Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

June 25, 2026

Tunisia’s Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority (Edinburgh UP, 2025) tells the captivating story of those Andalusians, descendants of Muslims expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century, who sought refuge in Tunisia. Rather than simply replicating Iberian traditions, Andalusian culture in Tunisia stands as a vibrant and evolving phenomenon, shaped by complex dynamics of interaction and adaptation over four centuries. The book dismantles the romanticised view of And...

Cyanne E. Loyle, "Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

June 24, 2026

Now more than ever, the international community plays a central role in pressing governments to hold themselves to account. Despite pressure to adhere to global human rights norms, governments continue to benefit from impunity for their past crimes. In an age of accountability, how do states continue to escape justice? Escaping Justice: Impunity for State Crimes in the Age of Accountability (Cambridge UP, 2025)presents a theory of strategic adaptation that explains the conditions under which...

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