André 3000 noted that OutKast started in a little room. Like he said, “Great things start in little rooms.”

“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

Life update: I am now Dr. Adams!

interesting phd opportunity: "Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century"! www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

✊ À Madagascar, la jeunesse se soulève contre les pénuries et l’autoritarisme de Rajoelina Face à cette mobilisation spontanée, le pouvoir malgache a répondu par la répression et l’instauration d’un couvre-feu.

Police fired teargas to disperse the thousands of mostly youth protesters who were marching in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, denouncing the government and demanding restoration of reliable water and electricity across the country. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

the hands behind AI

Protests are taking place in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar 🇲🇬, after worsening water shortages and frequent power cuts. Authorities banned public gatherings, but many people still came out to demonstrate.

How I wake up every day

Madagascar : la France restitue trois crânes sakalava, ce qu'il faut savoir

Madagascar: le crâne du roi sakalava sera restitué par la France le 26 août

Join us tomorrow at #mmea @chstmorg for a talk by Chanelle Adams (University of Lausanne): Volatile Oils: 'Wellness', Political Power, and the Market for Ravintsara Essential Oil in Madagascar at 10am Philadelphia, 3pm London, 4pm Berlin time: free online, all welcome! www.chstm.org/content/plan...

Sammy Baloji's present work, 'Shinkolobwe’s Abstraction' (with Pedro Monaville), links the Belgian uranium extraction in Katanga to the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The introductory text was written by Oliver Fuke for a recent exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (2024).

A new episode of the Black Autonomy podcast is up! Learn more about the release of JoNina Abron-Ervin's book, Driven by the Movement. This was three decades in the making for the last editor of the Black Panther Party newspaper. blackautonomy.libsyn.com/driven-by-th...

Honored to receive the 2025 bristol-bern prize for public environmental history from @eseh.bsky.social ! #ESEH2025

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

Media is straight up refusing to cover any of the protests, and actively misreporting the basics of the law-breaking across the administration. Normal people who just casually pass by a few minutes of CNN in a week haven't heard *anything* about the worst attack on government since the Civil War.

“For the first time we will be offering Black undergraduate students from universities across the UK the opportunity to undertake a research experience placement at a UK university or research institution of their choice.” blackinplantscience.org/2025/01/17/b...

Does anyone have the original paper that the "80% of words biodiversity is protected by Indigenous people" statement comes from? This is the paper that describes how that is wrong... I'm looking for the *original* paper that everyone was pulling the stat comes from. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Micheline Ravololonarisoa discusses the history of Madagascar, French colonialism and the remarkable student movement in 1972 of which she was among the leadership. Available in EN, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT and AR.

« The story of the 11,000-hectare project by Tozzi Green, accused by the community of stealing the land and destroying the local economy. »

All this talk about snitching, but consider how content creation, seeking engagement, and speculating on social media can function as independent investigations (intentionally or not) and aid the police narratively, materially, or otherwise.

last holiday (2006)

i contributed an entry on giraffes for VOLUME 66: the guide to designing with animals, plants and other critters archis.org/shop/volume-66…

historical political ecology seminar hosted at the neuchatel botanical garden today 🌱

first snow of the winter

hi, new to this place👋🏽! i’m an essayist, researcher and artist. i explore histories of plants, healing and ghosts through multiple modalities and mediums. currently, i’m writing a dissertation in political ecology which focuses on one tree species in madagascar and traces it across 200 years.