The New African Diasporas Podcast
Conversations about the lives and experiences of Africans on the move.
Episodes
6 episodes
Sefi Atta, "Diasporized Inequalities"
In this podcast episode, I engage in a conversation with the acclaimed writer, Sefi Atta, on the representations of postcolonial African mobile subjects in her work. The conversation revolves around some of Atta's novels such as The Bad Imm...
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Helon Habila, "The Morality of Not Feeling at Home in One's Home"
In this podcast episode, i engage in a conversation with Helon Habila on his latest novel, Travellers. The conversation begins with the novel's epigraph, a quote from Theodore Adorno, which states that "it is part of morality to not to...
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1:01:53
Tope Folarin, "Black Becomings"
In this episode of "The New African Diasporas Podcast", I engage in a conversation with the Nigerian American writer, Tope Folarin. Our conversation centres around Folarin's novel "A Particular Kind of Black Man" but also extends to broader iss...
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Episode 2
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Taiye Selasi, "The Model Minority Trap"
In this episode, i sit down with the acclaimed author, Taiye Selasi, to talk about her works on the new African diasporas. The talk touches on her canonical novel, Ghana Must Go, her concept of Afropolitanism, and the need for African imm...
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Episode 1
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