Are coups contagious? Check out our 🚨new episode🚨 & hear @MilesTendi discuss recent coups d'état in Africa. They have more to do with "highly personal" dynamics than "grand ideas about authoritarianism and democracy." https://t.co/vPbCIMaxOk
#coups#Africa#podcast#yale
I had a very insightful and informative conversation with @DetroittoAccra about transportation infrastructure in colonial and post-colonial Ghana. We also discussed decolonization efforts in this sector and the need for heavy investments in ‘trotros’ in the country. Kindly listen
First baby steps into podcasting and an immense pleasure to debate my forthcoming @HurstPublishers book “Conflict Minerals Inc.” with @Yale’s Sarah Daly & the effulgent @josaphatmusamba on @afrophiles. An hour of eclectic zooming in and out between #Congo mines & global politics.
Fun fact: Cloth with campaign slogans of opposing Zambian presidential candidates Hakainde Hichilema and Edgar Lungu were both produced in the same factory in the Indian town of Jetpur for the 2016 elections. Photo by @salazarjohann1 @renumodi2003#ZambiaDecides2021
Akua Agyei-Boateng spoke with me about commemorative African wax print textiles. She has a talent for putting interviewees at ease and asking insightful questions.