Dec 12, 2025
This is a fully remastered episode, which originally came out in April 2022
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back Africana studies scholar, Professor Takiyah Harper-Shipman, to continue our conversation! This time, the discussion focused on the paradigm of ownership of development, China's role in Africa, and AFRICOM! If you haven't already listened to part 1 of the conversation, you should do so first, it will be a good primer for this episode.
Takiyah Harper-Shipman is an Assistant Professor in the Africana
Studies Department at Davidson College. Her courses include
Africana political economy, gender and development in sub-Saharan
Africa, African feminisms, international development: theory and
praxis, and research methods in Africana Studies. Her
book Rethinking Ownership of Development in
Africa is available from Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Rethinking-Ownership-of-Development-in-Africa/Harper-Shipman/p/book/9780367787813.
We also highly recommend checking out her chapter La Santé Avant
Tout: Health Before Everything in the excellent A Certain
Amount of Madness
The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas
Sankara https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337579/a-certain-amount-of-madness/.
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