Our show this week begins with the elections in Benin, peacekeeping in Liberia, elections in South Africa and Malawi, and the Caster Semenya gender and racing saga. We also share an update on Ugandan musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
This week’s in-depth conversation is really special: it features a mashup of four podcasts: Ufahamu Africa, On Africa, Into Africa, and African Tech Roundup. The hosts of all four shows come together to talk about a few things, including why we launched our respective shows. In addition to Ufahamu Africa’s hosts Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl, you’ll hear Travis Adkins (@TravisLAdkins), adjunct professor at Georgetown University in African Studies and Security Studies and the host of On Africa; Judd Devermont (@JDevermont), the director of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and host of Into Africa, and Andile Masuku (@MasukuAndile), a Zimbabwean broadcaster and entrepreneur based in Johannesburg, South Africa and host of African Tech Roundup. We all owe a big thanks to Judd and his team at CSIS for hosting this mashup.
Books, Links, & Articles
- “Why did many voters boycott Benin’s April 28 elections?” Analysis by Tyson Roberts
- “In Liberia, the U.N. mission helped restore confidence in the rule of law.” Analysis by Robert A. Blair
- “ International Intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War: Evidence from Liberia.” by Robert Blair
- “South Africa votes Wednesday. Its urban voters probably won’t turn out the ANC.” Analysis by Noah Nathan
- Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young, Katrina Karkazis
- “The danger of a single story.” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa’s Transition to Democracy by Princeton N. Lyman
- Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
- Onion Tears by Shubnum Khan
- Africa’s Thirty Years’ War: Chad-libya-the Sudan, 1963-1993 by J. Millard Burr and Robert O Collins
- The Horn of Africa: Politics and International Relations by Peter Woodward