In this week’s episode, we talk about conflict in Cameroon, work by the writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, land restitution in South Africa, and Nanjala Nyabola’s new book. This week’s featured conversation is with Abdulbasit Kassim (@ScholarAkassi1), who visited Northwestern University’s Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa earlier this week. Kassim is a PhD student in the Department of Religion at Rice University, where his research focuses on the Intellectual History of Islam in Africa, Contemporary Islamic Movements in Africa, Postcolonial African States, African Religions, and the International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the co-editor of The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State. The Boko Haram Reader is an unprecedented collection of primary source texts, audio-visuals, and nashids translated into English from Hausa, Arabic, and Kanuri. It traces the history and evolution of the Boko Haram movement.
Books, Links, & Articles
- “What’s Driving the Conflict in Cameroon?” by Natalie Letsa
- Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- Weep Not, Child by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
- Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
- Silencing the Past : Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- This Week in Africa Newsletter