
Ep. 95: A conversation with Oumar Ba about international justice
About this episode
A lot is happening in the news! Kim and Rachel highlight some of the things they're seeing in their news feed, including: ECOWAS and Mali, African responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Takondwa Semphere's recent review of Beyonce's "Black is King." Kim interviews Oumar Ba, whose new book about the International Criminal Court highlights his expertise in international justice.
Books, Links, & Articles
- States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court by Oumar Ba
- Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital by Bhakti Shringarpure
- Amílcar Cabral: A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary (Ohio Short Histories of Africa) by Peter Karibe Mendy
- Economic Community of of West African States (ECOWAS)
- The Sahel Crisis since 2012 by Clionadh Raleigh, Héni Nsaibia, and Caitriona Dowd
- Emmanuel Balogun
- Beyond African Royalty by Takondwa Semphere
- Ancestors by Dudley Randall
- "Book Review: Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation, and Social Structures in Africa" by Antje Daniel (Africa Spectrum Journal)
- Chika Oduah on Twitter
- A Separatist Group is Seeking to Break Away from Ghana to Create a New West African Nation
- Book Review of Kate Skinner's The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics, and Nationalism, 1914-2014
- International Criminal Court
- International Court of Justice
- Amílcar Cabral’s Life as a Pan-Africanist, Anti-Colonial Revolutionary Still Inspires
- Announcing the annual TMC African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular
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