Episode 136 of Africa Past and Present — a podcast about African history, culture, and politics — is available at https://afripod.aodl.org/fullPodcast/episode=136/ and on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and other podcast platforms.
Africa Past and Present is hosted by Michigan State University Professor of History Dr. Peter Alegi and co-produced by Matrix, the African Studies Center, and the Department of History at Michigan State University.
In this latest episode, Dr. Lauren Jarvis (History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill), author of A Prophet of the People: Isaiah Shembe and the Making of a South African Church (Michigan State University Press, 2024), discusses the life of Shembe, the building of a religious community of people left behind by industrial capitalism, the role of women in the Nazaretha church, and her written, oral, and visual sources.
Dr. Lauren Jarvis (left) with Dr. Peter Alegi (right)