Episode 141 of Africa Past and Present — the podcast about African history, culture, and politics — is now available at https://afripod.aodl.org/fullPodcast/episode=141/ and on the usual platforms.
In this episode, Bernard Moore (MSU Ph.D. History 2025; now at the University of Basel) discusses his co-authored book, Space is the Ultimate Luxury: Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia (Brill, 2025). He describes conflicts over land use between African pastoralist farmers and billionaire white conservationists, and reflects on how and why written, oral, and visual sources shaped the book’s analysis and significance. The interview ends with a consideration of Moore’s ongoing activism and what is at stake in southern Namibia.
Africa Past and Present is hosted by Dr. Peter Alegi and co-produced by Matrix (Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences), the African Studies Center, and the Department of History at Michigan State University.