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A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions. https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm

Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives: bit.ly/4q4UGvD

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

On Wednesday!

Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ? https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null

Empires. Une histoire sociale de l'environnement. Sortie du livre aujourd'hui, après deux ans de travail avec le camarade Antonin Plarier ! Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français. www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Come and work with me! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR768/p...

New in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, ‘Great Sogolon’s House: The Epic of Manden According to the Condé of Fadama (Guinea)’. This epically narrated transcription and translation of the Sunjata epic is rich with detail and rooted in cultural memory. Discover more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4nm0IWh

📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A qui appartient une pierre tombée du ciel? Le débat est relancé après la récente vente à New York de la plus grande météorite martienne jamais retrouvée, aujourd'hui revendiquée par le Niger. L'article : ➡️ u.afp.com/SQZ6

⚠️ Tout a basculé en 48h, avec une pression tout azimut sur Netanyahu contre la famine, pour le cessez-le-feu et pour la reconnaissance de l'État palestinien:

[on X @theKanemBorno made a great thread👇] A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo: Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist. They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.

Very happy to see @abdulwando.bsky.social's research on #aid in #Borno published!

'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/

What can hacked websites tell us about the history of the web? From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...

Well done to Rasheed Olaniyi! boydellandbrewer.com/978184701428...

• Défendre quoiqu’il en coûte le droit international, s’opposer à l’annexion (Ukraine), au nettoyage ethnique (Gaza) et aux guerres "préventives" (Iran) c’est sauvegarder la possibilité d’un monde habitable 🌏 mais c’est aussi sauver la possibilité d’un projet européen 🇪🇺.

After years of research, I’m thrilled to share my article on biometric voting in Africa. I focus on the companies who sell the tech. They have become key actors for both election management and citizen identification. Yet we know little about them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining theonion.com/amazon-...

Très heureux de pouvour participer à une autre conférence d'histoire à l'Université d'Antananarivo, sur le rôle des chiffres dans l'histoire/historiographie de Madagascar.

Offts

** JOB ALERT ** Research position (3 years) at Queen's University Belfast to conduct research on project “Governing Jihad in Africa”. This position is to do comparative fieldwork on the ideology of at least two jihadi groups in Africa. Details here: hr.apps.qub.ac.uk/jobs/job_des...

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

Croisons les humanités environnementales et numériques ! RDV le 16 juin 15h avec Alder Keleman Saxena et Maxime Le Calvé à PRODIG #EnvironmentalHumanities #DH

Merci à @diamacoune.bsky.social pour son invitation à mettre en valeur le travail de notre equipe 🙏🙏@patrick1993.bsky.social @lancelotarzel.bsky.social @bixhiribarren.bsky.social @marinebg.bsky.social www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

[RAPPEL] 🌊 La rencontre entre @elsadevienne.bsky.social et Romain Grancher, sur l'histoire environnementale des milieux maritimes et l'exploitation des ressources des littoraux, aura lieu jeudi prochain (22/05) à 17h au 212 rue Saint-Jacques !

La colonisation de l'Afrique, on en entend souvent parler dans l'actualité, sans pour autant forcément savoir comment ça s'est passé dans les faits. Alors pour y voir un peu plus clair, RDV demain à 9h30 avec @camillelefebvre.bsky.social sur Twitch pour en discuter ! www.twitch.tv/notabenemovies

New study compares state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition engines—PyLaia, IDA, and TrOCR—for digitizing historical documents. Findings highlight the impact of language models and diverse datasets on recognition accuracy. Read more: rdcu.be/elLLR #DigitalHumanities #HTR #HistoricalDocuments

Très heureuse d'avoir publié cette note de lecture critique sur l'ouvrage de l'historien Paul Nugent "Race, Taste and the Grape : South African Wine from a Global Perspective" paru en 2024 chez Cambridge University Press. #SouthAfrica #Wine #WineHistory #Temperance

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Je serai sur Twitch vendredi à 14h, à l’invitation de @notabenemovies.bsky.social Merci à lui 🙏

We also made an english version of the page about the old kanembu coranic glose en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjumo...

Historians of #Nigeria, #Niger and #Borno, have a look!

www.npr.org/2025/04/11/1... #Nigeria #Lagos #TarkwaBay

www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/... Le fils de Ruben Um Nyobe au micro de @afrique.rfi.fr @bixhiribarren.bsky.social @lancelotarzel.bsky.social

Out now! We've published Issue 06 of our Bulletin // Boletín // Bulletin // Boletim. We promote our French journal’s call for translations, thank a long-term member of our team, and invite you to be a #DiamondOpenAccess advocate on our behalf. Read it here! tinyurl.com/bulletin-iss...

#MyStudents @fbrissetfo.bsky.social Rodney enfin traduit ! Publié en 1972, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa est rapidement devenu un classique de l’histoire moderne africaine et des études #postcoloniales dans le monde anglophone www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2025/04/08/l...

www.justiceinfo.net/en/144072-wh... by @justiceinfo.bsky.social

Ya han llegado. Aún no me lo creo

On 10 & 11 April, @kingshistory.bsky.social is hosting a symposium in honour of the historian Arthur Burns (1963-2023). It pays tribute to Arthur with a theme which runs throughout his own research: institutions and communities in modern Britain. Programme and booking: bit.ly/4bOC8cc #Skystorians

Friends and colleagues abroad, the Sorbonne is on furlough... The French govt is cutting 50% of our funding. Please forward to raise awareness and send us love 🫶

Black Orpheus online! Poetry, fiction and beautiful covers olongoafrica.com/presenting-t... #Nigeria

Return(s) to #Africa #CFP #Sources journals.openedition.org/sources/3035

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

📖 Parution de « Les passeurs de révolte. Étudiants et intellectuels étrangers et postcoloniaux en France dans les années 1968 », Françoise Blum, Guillaume Tronchet (dir.), PUR, mars 2025 Publié avec le soutien de l’ANR GlobalYouth, l'IHMC et @normalesup.bsky.social. pur-editions.fr/product/1016...

My former colleague Patrick Hege published his very interesting book on Dar es salaam as a contested colonial urban space.