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Tinea, thanks a lot for this concise overview of our non-fictional reading!! Much appreciated!!
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Formation: The Making of Nigeria From Jihad to Amalgamation (other topics)No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74 (other topics)
The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa (other topics)
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (other topics)
A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (other topics)
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Oct-Dec 2019: Contemporary Sahel
Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest and Revolution | Discussion Thread
Jan-Mar 2020: African Language Politics and Practices
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature | Discussion Thread
Apr-Jun 2020: African History (side-by-side reads)
- A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
- Congo: The Epic History of a People
Discussion Thread
Jul-Sep 2020: Climate Change in Africa (side-by-side reads)
- Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
- Climate Change and Human Development
Discussion Thread
Oct-Dec 2020: LGBTQ Africa
Love Falls On Us: A Story of American Ideas and African LGBT Lives | Discussion Thread
Jan-Mar 2021 | Pre-colonial African Empires
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution | Discussion thread
Side read: The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa | Discussion thread
Side read: The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages | Discussion thread
Apr-Jun 2021 | Political biography or memoir
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa | Discussion thread
Jul-Sep 2021 | Foreign or external actors in Africa
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa | Discussion thread
Oct-Dec 2021 | Fulani (Peul) history or ethnography
Pasteurs Peuls Nomades et Transhumants : Quel avenir ? | Discussion thread
Jan-Mar 2022: African Mythology
The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa | Discussion thread
Apr-Jun 2022: Historical time period of decolonization, independence movements, and liberation struggles
No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74 | Discussion thread
Jul-Sep 2022: History book focusing on one country or region
Formation: The Making of Nigeria From Jihad to Amalgamation | Discussion thread