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Ufahamu AfricaBonus: Hear a review of two new books on what Africa’s urbanization means for politicsIn this bonus recording, hear Ufahamu Africa host Kim Dionne (@dadakim) read her review of two recent books with insights on how increasing urbanization in Africa changes (or doesn’t change) politics and power: Noah L. Nathan’s (@noahlnathan) “Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana,” and Jeffrey W. Paller’s (@JWPaller) “Democracy in Ghana: Everyday Politics in Urban Africa.” The review was published in this past Friday’s installment of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular (#APSRS20), and this recording is being shared as part of a collaboration with The Monkey Cage (@monkeycageblog), a blog on politics...2020-06-2306 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 93: A conversation with Kim Yi Dionne and Ken Opalo about the politics and policy of the COVID-19 pandemic and moreThis week's news wrap featured discussions about recent election updates in Burundi and Benin, leadership changes in Lesotho, and more news regarding summer bonus content!In this episode, we highlight a panel discussion from an event with the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Our very own cohost, Kim Yi Dionne, was a part of the panel, along side a familiar face, or we should say voice, to our Ufahamu Africa community — Ken Opalo. Peter Lewis moderated the panel. Peter Lewis is the Warren Weinstein Chair of African Studies and the director of Africa and...2020-05-301h 22
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 81: Another Africa Podcast Mashup: Kim Yi Dionne on AIDS interventions in Africa, podcasting, and moreIn the news wrap this week, we talk about Ethiopian politics, Zambia's third term debate, elections in Namibia, and more.This week is another African podcast mashup special — featuring a conversation with Ufahamu Africa's own Kim Yi Dionne (@dadakim) in commemoration of World AIDS Day this weekend. Kim is a professor of political science at UC Riverside and an editor of The Monkey Cage, a blog on politics and political science at The Washington Post. She is also the author of Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa, published by Cambridge University Press in...2019-11-3035 min
Africa Past & Present » AfripodEpisode 127:Kim Yi Dionne (Political Science, UC Riverside) on her recent book, Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa; the controversial May 2019 elections in Malawi, where she served as an observer; and hosting the Ufahamu Africa podcast and co-editing the Monkey Cage politics blog at the Washington Post.
Follow her on Twitter at @dadakim.2019-11-0535 min