This week, we are sharing expertise from Souleymane Bachir Diagne who spoke on a panel last October as part of “Repatriation of Museum Objects” for Cornell University’s Institute for European Studies. Next week, we will be sharing the expertise of Cécile Fromont, another of the event’s panelists, as part 2 of this episode.

In the news, Kim and Rachel talk about recent events in Ethiopia and Niger, how food security affects us all, and the recent transfer of power in the United States.

Books, Links, & Articles

• Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe
• Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses by Hilary Matfess
• Restituer le Patrimoine Africain by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy
• “Bobi Wine and the Fraught Elections in Uganda.” by Global Dispatches podcast hosted by Mark Leon Goldberg
• “Crisis in Mozambique.” by Global Dispatches podcast hosted by Mark Leon Goldberg
• “What to Watch in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021.” by Judd Devermont, Marielle Harris, Yemi Adamolekun, Lina Benabdallah, Will Brown, Maria E. Burnett, Emilia Columbo, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Hilary Matfess, Kyle Murphy, Rafiq Raji, Jon Temin, and Laird Treiber
• “Risk of Famine in Four Countries, Warns UN Agencies’ Report.” by World Food Programme
• “Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem.” by CNN Staff
• “The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage. Toward a New Relational Ethics.” by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy
• “A Regional Action Plan for the Return of African Cultural Property to Their Countries of Origin.” by ECOWAS
• “Open Society Pledges Support for African Cultural Heritage Restitution.” by Open Society Foundations
• “How African Body Markings Were Used to Construct the Idea of Race in Colonial Brazil.” by Aldair Rodrigues
• “Martin Luther King Jnr., Pan-African.” by Sean Jacobs
• The Everyday Peace Indicators project at Brandeis University led by Pamina Firchow and Roger Mac Ginty is hiring an Operation Manager
• “Africa: Year in Review 2020.” by Wilson Center Africa Program
• “Theories of Statehood and Multi-level Governance.” by African Leadership Center
• “How to Spend It: New EU Funding for African Peace and Security.” by International Crisis Group

Previous Episodes We Mentioned

• Ep. 36: A conversation with Hilary Matfess on women and Boko Haram
• Ep. 97: A conversation with Lina Benabdallah on the link between China and Africa

Transcript

Coming soon!