In this week’s episode of Ufahamu Africa, we do our first-ever year-end reflection. We start with what we can learn from broader trends on the continent in 2018. We also share some of our favorite books we read this year and give a sneak peek at some of the guests we’ll feature in 2019, as well as the elections we’ll be watching. Bonus: we talk about art exhibits in Chicago and LA that we both plan to see very soon.
Books, Links, & Articles
- Afrobarometer
- Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
- “The best Africa books we read in 2018—captured in 28 words or fewer.” by Abdi Latif Dahir and Lynsey Chutel
- Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
- The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America by Helen Thorpe
- Laibon: An Anthropologist’s Journey with Samburu Diviners in Kenya by Elliot Fratkin
- Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Timothy Longman
- Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa by Maggie Dwyer
- “Four things you should know about mutinies.” Analysis by Kim Yi Dionne
- Chimurenga
- Karimah Ashadu
- Bobi Wine
- Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
- This Week in Africa Newsletter
- Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa by Jeffrey Paller
- Africasacountry.com
- Into Africa Podcast hosted by CSIS
- An Africanist Perspective by Ken Opalo
- African Tech Roundup Podcast