Interchange – Sounding Angola: Radio’s Electrifying Effects

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 11:45 a.m.

Today’s show focuses on the history of radio in Angola – as an instrument for Portuguese settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state to project power and challenge empire. Marissa Moorman calls these distinct and sometimes overlapping interests Powerful Frequencies, the title of her new book, published by Ohio University Press. Its …