Episode 126
South(ern) Africa, Guinea, and Histories of Foreign Interventions
Elizabeth Schmidt (History, Loyola Maryland) on her activist beginnings and professional trajectory as an historian, first of Shona women in colonial Zimbabwe and later of Guinea’s independence movement. The second part of the interview focuses on Schmidt’s recent books on foreign intervention in Africa since 1945—a complex story driven by multiple geopolitical and economic interests, with largely negative repercussions for African nations and people.
Introduction.
Dr. Schmidt’s activist beginnings and trajectory as a professional historian.
Schmidt’s shift from studying Southern Africa to her research in Guinea.
Discussion of Schmidt’s books on foreign interventions in Africa during and since the Cold War.
US foreign policy and intervention in Africa since 1990, with a focus on Libya and the importance of understanding local contexts.
Wrap-up and outro.
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