Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa

This week’s podcast is “Postcolonial Socialisms in Africa,” the third in REEES Fall Series Socialism: Past, Present, and Future.

Guest:

Priya Lal is an Associate Professor of African history and modern world history at Boston College. Her research focuses on the politics of national development in decolonization-era and postcolonial Africa. She’s the author of African Socialism in Postcolonial Tanzania: Between the Village and the World published by Cambridge University Press.

Music:

Laibach, “Get Back,” Let it Be, 1988.