New Books in African Studies

Miranda Melcher

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Booking Overview

A New Books Network channel where scholars explain their newly published work in African studies to an expert audience and the general public. It’s a strong fit for PR around academic credibility, book launches, and research communication.

Metrics

Episodes: 881

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.3/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Miranda Melcher - Dr. Miranda Melcher is a scholar whose work focuses on post-conflict military integration and treaty negotiation/implementation in civil war contexts. On this New Books Network channel, she conduct...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
University-affiliated scholars (Dr./faculty), authors of newly published academic books or significant scholarly monographs in African studies (often with university press backing).
Required Achievements:  
Recently published book with a university press, Expertise in a subfield relevant to African studies (history, politics, culture, human rights, environment, etc.), Academic credibility evidenced by peer-reviewed research and scholarly reputation

Recent Guest Discussions

Delia Duong Ba Wendel - Genocide Memory; Justice And Sovereignty; Trauma Heritage; Oral Histories And Visual Archives; Ethics Of Memorialization.

Timothy Mason Roberts - Algeria’s Roles In French And American Empires; Settler Colonialism; Racialized Citizenship; Transimperial/imperial Connections And Power Networks.

Robert Rouphail - Environmental Disaster And Identity In Mauritius; Disaster As Historical Process; Race/diaspora Identity; Governance And Infrastructure; Climate-relevant Historical Analysis.

Recent Topics

African Studies, History, Human Rights, Postcolonialism, Empire

Episodes

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

Derek R. Peterson, "A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda" (Yale UP, 2025)

June 14, 2026

Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years? Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people—civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots—who invested their energy and resources in making the government work. In A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda (Yale U...

Tania Sengupta and Stuart King eds., "Reclaiming Colonial Architecture" (Routledge, 2024)

June 09, 2026

Reclaiming Colonial Architecture (Routledge, 2024) explores the built inheritance of colonialism and considers how architects, heritage practitioners, students, communities, and activists might narrate, care for, transform, or challenge them today. Awarded the SAHGB’s Colvin Medal in 2025, the book draws on a variety of authors to combine historical context with thematically organised case studies across urban and architectural scales. This interview was conducted by Matthew Wells, Senior L...

Delia Duong Ba Wendel, "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty" (Duke UP, 2025)

June 05, 2026

In Rwanda's Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty (Duke UP, 2025), Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Drawing from oral histories and a visual archive of memory work after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, she explores the human rights and government priorities that preserved killing sites and victims' remains for public display. Rwanda's genocide memorials exemplify a global phenomenon that Wendel terms t...

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