Het Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), ofwel het Verzetsleger van de Heer, loopt op zijn laatste benen. Wat rest er nog van de gevreesde rebellengroep die decennia terreur zaaide in Centraal-Afrika? Een analyse van Kristof Titeca (Universiteit Antwerpen). www.mo.be/analyse/ali-...

📢 Conference: How to Decolonize Political History Join us (June 18-20, 2025) for a conference on rethinking methodologies, sources, and narratives to move beyond colonial and elitist perspectives in political history.🌍📖 📍 Conference Center Grauwzusters 📝 Register: www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

“Willen we de herinnering aan de Holocaust in stand houden als een appel tegen onmenselijkheid, dan moeten we voor de genocide in Gaza dezelfde morele schaal hanteren.” m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

Kunnen Brusselse politici hun verantwoordelijkheid nemen? At this point maakt het zelfs niet meer uit wie er wel of niet in de regering zit, zolang er maar een regering komt.

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

We invite submissions of research articles in the fields of African social science, African history and cultural studies, African language studies, and African literatures. Cross-disciplinary papers are also welcome! NJAs is a fully free #openaccess journal. Visit us at njas.fi

And the category is: things I like about my new university

Job opportunity! The University of Antwerp is looking for a PhD candidate to work on language vitality among the Congolese diaspora in Belgium, supervised by Mieke Vandenbroucke and myself. It is more important than ever to put Congo and its people on the map! 🇨🇩 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Breaks my heart. The silence in Europe is deafening. m.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250...

New opinion with Erik Kennes @egmontinstitute.bsky.social in the @euobserver.com on the need for EU pressure on Rwanda: euobserver.com/africa/arce9...

‘Rwanda is een donor darling, voor het land komt nog altijd een groot deel van het overheidsbudget van buitenlandse hulp.’

🚨 Deadline 10 February 2025! Don't miss the 12th Annual Conference of the @associationpolhist.bsky.social: "How to decolonize political history"! 🗓️ 18-20 June 2025 📍 @uantwerpen.bsky.social 🔗 www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

Excellent panel on Archives, Memory and Personal Histories with Noemie Arazi, Pedro Monaville and Thomas McDow at the Congo Research Network Conference in Sharjah

Rwandese troepen en rebellen van #M23 hebben de Congolese miljoenenstad #Goma in het vizier. Wat is er aan de hand? MO*journaliste Elien Spillebeen is ter plaatse voor tekst en uitleg.

Thank god for Bad Bunny

NEVER NORMALIZE DONALD TRUMP

64 years since Patrice Lumumba was murdered. Time to reread this piece by Pedro Monaville. africasacountry.com/2019/04/lumu...

Libgen shutting down is genuinely a disaster for poorer researchers

Excited! I wrote an entire dissertation about the last years of the Kabila regime, to then realize that the real protagonist of my research was actually…this man. One of the two main thieves that defined Congolese history.I suppose you know the other one (he has a beard😏) www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Finally said goodbye to what used to be Twitter

Together with my colleagues I am organizing the next APH conference on “How to decolonize political history?”. Deadline paper submissions is February 10. www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org?p=2670

You can now watch the series “Putain” on Streamz. So proud of leki Nadège Bibo-Tansia who co-wrote this beautiful yet poignant story about our beloved city BX. The result is absolutely unique. Must see!

Excellente analyse de la crise dans la prison de Makala par cher collègue Denis Samnick dans @afriquexxi.bsky.social, qui a mené des recherches ethnographiques approfondies dans la prison "À la prison de Makala de Kinshasa, les failles de la vie nocturne" afriquexxi.info/A-la-prison-... #RDC #DRC

Come work with me and Doreen Kembabazi! Universiteit Antwerpen supports a PhD project on the history of female informal cross-border trade between the DRCongo and Uganda. Very excited about this one!🤩 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Only some days left to submit your ECAS paper to our panel “Historicizing Linguistic Belonging in Urban Africa”

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Bluesky: boring content from an algorithm that doesn't know me. X: being inside of Elon Musk's head despite repeated efforts to explain my disgust to the algorithm.

Elon Musk’s plans for Mars: “When there’s nothing left to colonize… we colonize some more”

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