Book Chapter co-authored with Kamau Wairuri in this volume examining how queer & trans refugees navigate policing in Nairobi.📝 on forms of everyday over-policing e.g house raids & arbitrary arrests, and explore solidarity networks developed in response open-access: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/east-afri...

🔥In Nairobi, urban restructuring has intensified struggles over land, belonging and the meaning of home. 📖𝗠𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶 𝗠𝘄𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 has more 👉 pambazuka.org/Anti-urbanis... #Nairobi #Kenya #urbanism #home #capital @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

🔥Issue 922 offers incisive analyses of the 2026 Franco-Africa Summit, nuclear energy, intra-Global African critiques, belonging, naming, music, freedom ships, and workers' issues. 📖Read it at: pambazuka.org #Africa #France #Kenya #Music #SouthAfrica @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

anchored by Bettina Ng’weno’s book I wrote on the planning/development logic that continues to dictate that cities should only be ‘home’ for capital, not people.

🔥France pivots in East Africa as it is increasingly expelled from West Africa. Given its West African records, the 2026 Franco-Africa forward summit raises several questions for Global Africa 📖Read 𝗪. 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮's take at pambazuka.org/Forward-Summ... #Kenya #France #Africa @mwangimwaura.bsky.social

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 12 May for the seminar, when Abdulhakim Nsobya (QU Belfast) presents: 'Rectifying Jihad: Governance, Leadership & the Making of Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP)' *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 5 May for a book launch & discussion of: Sites of Remembering: The Meaning of African Art Through Memory W/author Abebe Zegeye & discussants Thembinkosi Goniwe & Cressida Marcus *Hybrid event* Webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b579a...

The last two months at #GikombaMarket, Nairobi, have been heavy. To inhabit most parts of #Nairobi is to live under the ever-present shadow of looming demolitions and other violences: floods, fires, police, modernisation…

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 10 Feb, 4pm UK time. @delfmt.bsky.social (Lorraine, Nancy) will present: 'A New "Playground of Europe"? Exploration, colonisation & the naturalisation of Mt Kilimanjaro at the dawn of the 20th century' *Hybrid event* Details: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2be...

"Queer Apocalypse," a new special issue (33:1) from GLQ, is now available: buff.ly/sIoCEo8 The issue explores the subcultural limits and pleasures of creating queer art, scholarship, and community across hostile terrains and turbulent times.

“The Roots of Political Transformation in Ethiopia: A Review Essay” published in JMAS. I bring into conversation three recently published books on the politics and history of Ethiopia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Please join for the Northeast Africa Forum's next seminar, 11 Nov, 4pm UK time. Gedion Onyango (LSE) will present on: 'Gen Z protests and prospects for political change in Africa: A longitudinal analysis' *Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/46e...

Please join us for the Northeast African Forum, 28 October, 4pm UK time. Dr Prince Guma will be presenting 'Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think' *Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d2a...

What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc #FashionStudies #IIAS

Also if you want to know why particle physics matters for the future of humanity, I wrote a book about it, and it's coming out on April 7 and you can preorder it now 👽 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served! #ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower @uvahumanities.bsky.social

Apply for the UTA-Do 2026 workshop happening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from February 9-13. This time round, we have 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Read more here: sites.google.com/view/uta-do/... Apply by 30 September 2025!

🔥The Struggle Continues!!! 📖 #Issue899 is full of inspiring pieces and answers on Movements for #Reparations, #Liberation, and #Commemorations in Global Africa. 👉Access it here: pambazuka.org ✍️Read, comment, and share @malangwa.bsky.social @daughterofsahel.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

🏗️The Limits of Infrastructure-Led Politics in Kenya on Our Protests/Our protests are limited by infrastructure-led politics 👉Join Mwaura in conversation on the limits of this politics on vision and the issues it hides. 👉See tinyurl.com/PZ-Infrast-pol #Infrastructure #Kenya @malangwa.bsky.social