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The Journal of African History Podcast

The Journal of African History

17 episodes

The Journal of African History Podcast highlights interviews with historians whose work has appeared in The Journal of African History, a leading source of peer-reviewed scholarship on Africa’s past since its creation in 1960. Hosted by journal editors and occasional guest hosts, episodes include discussions on how scholars find and interpret sources for African history, how authors’ research contributes to debates among historians, and how Africanist scholarship can add much-needed context to broader social and political debates.

Episodes

  1. Siyabonga Njica on Bloke Modisane's research in East Africa

    · 29 min · Episode 18

    In this episode, Siyabonga Njica (Cambridge) joins guest host Elizabeth Price (Wisconsin) to discuss his JAH article on Bloke Modisane's unfinished history of the Maji Maji War, armed resistance against German colonial…

  2. A Year in African Historical Scholarship

    · 59 min · Episode 17

    Journal of African History Podcast: Volume 66 Retrospective What does a year of cutting-edge African history scholarship reveal about where the field is heading? In this special episode marking the close of Volume 66,…

  3. Mark Deets on alternative futures of the Casamance

    · 24 min · Episode 16

    In this episode Mark Deets (AUC) joins editor Abou Bamba (Gettysburg) to discuss “Ambiguous Echoes of the Colonial Partition: Alternative Futures from the Casamançais Past in Senegal.” This featured review explores…

  4. David Wilson on fisheries management in Lake Malawi

    · 21 min · Episode 15

    In this episode, David Wilson (University of Strathclyde) joins guest host Ayodeji Adegbite (Brown University) to discuss the Open Access article, "Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake…

  5. Muoki Mbunga on the moral logics of Mau Mau fighters

    · 25 min · Episode 14

    Muoki Mbunga (Tufts University) joins East Africa editor Michelle Moyd to discuss his newly published open access article, “Who Deserves to Die? The Moral Logic of Mau Mau Killings in Colonial Kenya, 1952–56.” In their…

  6. John Aerni-Flessner on border violence amd diplomacy in Southern Africa

    · 26 min · Episode 13

    In this episode, John Aerni-Flessner (MSU) joins editor Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt) to discuss the article, "Lesotho and the QwaQwa Ski Resort, 1975–82: Border Disputes and South Africa's Increasingly Deadly Responses,"…

  7. Peter Vale on the pre/history of DRC’s neoliberal moment

    · 19 min · Episode 12

    In this episode, Peter Vale (Harvard) joins editor Marissa Moorman (Wisconsin) to discuss his research on the political economy of early postcolonial Congo. He details how the Mobutu government charted a course between…

  8. Sarah Van Beurden on the work of historians in public debates

    · 26 min · Episode 11

    In this episode Sarah Van Beurden (OSU and SAR) joins editor Michelle Moyd (MSU) to discuss her History Matters piece, coauthored with Gillian Mathys (Ghent), unpacking the experience of working as historian experts…

  9. Sean Hanretta and Ousman Kobo on William A. Brown’s legacy

    · 30 min · Episode 10

    In this episode, Professors Sean Hanretta and Ousman Kobo join JAH editor Moses Ochonu to discuss the life and work of Professor William A. Brown. While he published little, Bill Brown’s landmark 1968 dissertation on…

  10. Rebecca Grollemund and David Schoenbrun on interpreting Bantu language expansions

    · 37 min · Episode 9

    In this episode Rebecca Grollemund (Missouri) and David Schoenbrun (Northwestern) join editor Marissa Moorman (Wisconsin) to discuss recent insights and the continuing complexity of classifying five millennia of Bantu…

  11. Elizabeth Jacob on public motherhood and anticolonial politics in Côte d’Ivoire

    · 23 min · Episode 8

    In this episode Elizabeth Jacob (Providence) joins editor Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt) to discuss women's vital role in anticolonial struggles in Côte d'Ivoire and Francophone Africa, through acts both spectacular and…

  12. Etana Dinka on state-society relations within the Ethiopian empire

    · 19 min · Episode 7

    Etana Dinka (James Madison) joins the JAH's Shane Doyle (Leeds) to discuss state-society encounters in western Ethiopia. Using the province of Qellem as a window, Dinka details processes of contesting, negotiating, and…

  13. Laura Phillips on the making of mineral property and political authority in South Africa

    · 19 min · Episode 6

    Laura Phillips (University of the Witwatersrand) joins JAH editor Marissa Moorman to discuss the entangled histories of minerals, politics, and capital in South Africa. Phillips interrogates the interplay between these…

  14. Khaled Esseissah on Enslaved Muslim Sufi Saints in the 19th Century Sahara

    · 30 min · Episode 4

    Khaled Esseissah (Georgetown) speaks with Moses Ochonu about the life of Bilad Ould Mahmud, a 19th century enslaved Saharan Muslim whose renowned miracles, poetry, and Qur’an recitation enabled him to acquire Sufi…

  15. Daniel Domingues da Silva and Edward Alpers on Abolition in 19th Century Mozambique

    · 34 min · Episode 3

    Daniel Domingues da Silva (Rice) and Edward Alpers (UCLA) join Moses Ochonu to discuss the process of building and interpreting a database of nearly 55,000 enslaved and freed Africans registered by Portuguese colonial…

  16. Sarah Walters on African Historical Demography

    · 16 min · Episode 2

    How can the methods of historical demography help historians study the African past? Sarah Walters (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) talks to Shane Doyle about how her research uses parish registers in…

  17. Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye on rural radio and infrastructure in Mali

    · 10 min · S1 E1

    JAH author Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye (CNRS, IMAF-Aubervilliers) discusses her recent article on the history of rural radio in Mali with Marissa Moorman. Her article, “Radio and the Road: Infrastructure, Mobility, and…

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