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Gillian Mathys, “Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands.”

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Prof. Gillian Mathys (University of Ghent) joins Philip Gooding to discuss her newly published book “Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa.”

Scholar profile: https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/gillian.mathys

Book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fractured-pasts-in-lake-kivus-borderlands/28EE1FFBB2BDDA8814964DD39656B959

Bukavu Series: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/podcasts/the-bukavu-expo


Music: “Nam Nhi-tu” by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

Photo Credit: “Fractured Pasts in Lake Kivu’s Borderlands: Conflicts, Connections and Mobility in Central Africa,” Book Cover (Cambridge University Press, July 2025).


The Indian Ocean World podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sofia O’Reilly, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership, “Appraising Risk, Past and Present.”

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