Nov 21, 2025
This is a fully remastered episode, which originally came out in April 2022
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on the fantastic Africana studies scholar, Professor Takiyah Harper-Shipman, to talk about West African women's development, Sankara, AFRICOM, and more! Due to time constraints, this episode will act as an introduction to these topics for our next conversation with Professor Harper-Shipman, which will take place soon and will be a longer, more in-depth discussion. We really enjoyed the conversation, and are already looking forward to diving into the minutiae with the Professor very soon!
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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