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African Studies

Welcome! This is a research guide to sources in African Studies. It is tailored to the courses offered by at McGill.

Blogs

ASCL Africanist Blog is maintained by scholars and staff members of the African Studies Centre Leiden. 

Africa at LSE blog is a platform publishing the latest expert analysis on African political, social and economic affairs.

Africa in words is a blog about cultural production and Africa (books, art, film, history, music, theatre, ideas, etc.).

Brittle Paper is a website dedicated to African writing and literary culture.

Commonwealth Writers - Stories from ‘adda’ publishes new fiction, non-fiction and poetry from around the World.

Johannesburg Review of Books is an independent literary journal, publishing reviews, essays, poetry, photographs and short fiction from South Africa, Africa and beyond.

Okay Africa connects a global audience to Africa.

Read African Books is maintained by the African Books Collective, and promotes the latest books, news, reviews and comments on African publishing.

Podcasts

Africa Past & Present is a podcast about history, culture, and politics in Africa and the diaspora hosted by Michigan State University historians Peter Alegi and Peter Limb.

African Podcasts is a collection of podcasts featuring unique voices and stories from Africa.

Africa Speaking discusses political, economic, social, cultural and environmental issues affecting the whole continent while delving into particular national and regional concerns. The podcast gives priority to African voices from the continent and the diaspora.

Afropop World Wide is an African diaspora music show.

ALC Pan-African Radio was established by the African Leadership Centre (ALC) and focuses on peace, security and leadership in Africa.

Cheeky Natives is a podcast focusing on the review, curatorship and archiving of black literature.

Citing Africa podcasts series deals with  different knowledge production issues in African countries over the course of nine episodes.

The Global History Podcast explores cross-cultural encounters in the early modern World.

New Books Network podcasts (African Studies) introduces "scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media."

New Frame "is a not-for-profit, social justice media publication based in Johannesburg, South Africa."

Sound Africa provides "innovative, informed, and in-depth coverage of the" African continent in "creative and accessible" ways.

Affiliated with the African Studies Students' Association (ASSA) at McGill, UMOJA offers a weekly conversation on Africa and its diaspora to provide great insight on day-to-day African experiences in North America.

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