In a contribution to ROAPE’s debate on capitalism in Africa, Stefan Ouma provides a critical account of Africapitalism as well as an assessment of the future/s it imagines, what it silences and its po...

Côte d’Ivoire’s post-colonial boom period has materialized in well-known landmark architecture, most notably the towers forming the Abidjan skyline and the Yamoussoukro project of a new post-colonial capital in the...

Geographically blessed with mineral-rich neighbours to the east and the Atlantic to the west, Angola occupies a pivotal role, providing a vital transport and energy corridor that connects central and ...

In this episode, we’re speaking with Claudia Gastrow, author of The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda , published in 2024 by University of North Caroli...

Podcast Episode · New Books in African Studies · 10/31/2025 · 58m

Across the African continent, from Madagascar to Morocco, young people known as Generation Z, are taking to the streets demanding social justice, and their voices to be heard.

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

Protesting young people reject dissolution of government as insufficient and demand list of reforms

A counter-archive of found and crowd-sourced photographs from Zambia’s past.

Welcome to the UNC Press Fall/Winter 2025 Seasonal Catalog. Here you’ll find a listing of our new books scheduled to be published between August 2025 and

The new book A Concrete Alliance explores the daring and divisive architecture built by the Communist Party of France in working-class towns of the 1960s and ’70s.

The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is known for his sophisticated theorisation of geographical space. Less well known, however, is the role that Milton Santos’ experience at the University of Dar...

Join us for a thought-provoking seminar on the intersections of urbanism, indigenous identity, and the transformation of Luanda during the oil boom. Claudia Gastrow (North Carolina State University) w...

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the...