Mwangi Mwaura
@mwangimwaura.bsky.social
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Mwangi Mwaura
Jason Mosley
18 days ago
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...
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Duke University Press
28 days ago
"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.
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Biruk Terrefe
about 1 month ago
“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...
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The roots of political transformation in Ethiopia: a review essay - ‘Ethiopia’s Developmental State: Political Order and Distributive Crisis’, by Tom Lavers , Cambridge University Press, 2023, 116.71 ...
The roots of political transformation in Ethiopia: a review essay - ‘Ethiopia’s Developmental State: Political Order and Distributive Crisis’, by Tom Lavers , Cambridge University Press, 2023, 116.71 ...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/abs/roots-of-political-transformation-in-ethiopia-a-review-essay-ethiopias-developmental-state-political-order-and-distributive-crisis-by-tom-lavers-cambridge-university-press-2023-11671-eur-hb-pp-xvi359-isbn-9781009428316-the-abiy-project-god-power-and-war-in-the-new-ethiopia-by-tom-gardner-hurst-2024-30-hb-pp-368-isbn-9781911723103-greater-tigray-and-the-mysterious-magnetism-of-ethiopia-by-haggai-erlich-hurst-2023-45-hb-pp-232-isbn-9781805260233/5077A6B2828B4BDC42CC17348BBCCB95
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Mwangi Mwaura
Jason Mosley
4 months ago
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...
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Mwangi Mwaura
Jason Mosley
4 months ago
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...
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Mwangi Mwaura
Tommy Tse
4 months ago
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
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
4 months ago
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...
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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817/the-edge-of-space-time-by-chanda-prescod-weinstein/?utm_source=chanda&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-edge-of-space-time-preorder-cover-reveal
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Norman Aselmeyer
5 months ago
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
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Mwangi Mwaura
Tommy Tse
6 months ago
🌟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
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Mwangi Mwaura
Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do)
6 months ago
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!
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Mwangi Mwaura
9 months ago
🔥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
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Mwangi Mwaura
8 months ago
🏗️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
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