Blue Humanities, the subject of our first special issues, is a deeply intersectional field. Check out these inspiring projects from Oceanic Humanities for the Global South, a research institute which combines creative practice with scientific research. www.oceanichumanities.com/projects

📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

theconversation.com/how-nollywoo... Great Conversation Africa piece by Solomon Waliaula, editor of Journal of African Cultural Studies, on the role of Nollywood narratives in everyday lives

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine. You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Just published online, my chapter on cultural and sociopolitical developments, c1900-c1950, in the Oxford Handbook of South African History. A long journey to getting this out, but voila. Published in hardback in Apr ‘26. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

theconversation.com/travel-as-ac... Just out in the Conversation Africa: My take on moving to be free. A study of black working women in apartheid who “travelled to gain ground for the greater cause of freedom, while discovering new versions of themselves along the way.”

Dar es Salaam and the excellent Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Great to be part of the writing workshop and to reflect also on a decade (& slightly more) of the innovative journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

A reminder that @libbyapp.com gives you free,legal access to fab mags eg New Yorker, Empire, etc & high quality journalism in other languages 💯

Calling historians and all interested readers: Johannesburg and Cape Town launches at @exclusivebooks.bsky.social and Book Lounge. The prominent Molteno family with multiple impacts on South African politics, social life and culture. RSVP: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Just out in @sajournalofscience.bsky.social: my review of Publishing from the South by Wits Press. Fascinating multi-authored read about the life and times of a distinctive university press and the broader dynamics of publishing from the global African South: sajs.co.za/article/view...

🚀 Research integrity is a global challenge requiring community-driven solutions. Join us April 8 as Joy Owango (TCC Africa) discusses the Africa Research Integrity Initiative and its role in ethical research practices. 🌍🔬 📅 Register: https://shorturl.at/CCmuc #ResearchIntegrity #ORCIDEvents

In a world where political shifts disrupt the research landscape, ORCID's mission remains steadfast. Our commitment to supporting researchers and their work is unwavering. Read more on our latest blog: info.orcid.org/orcid-still-...

Great news, yes, yes, yes, @noosarowiwa.bsky.social’s Black Ghosts wins the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social award. Had the privilege and wonder of interviewing her about the book for @africa.theconversation.com. Have a read x2! theconversation.com/black-ghosts...

Delius, Chewins & Forssman urge us to 'turn South African history upside down': rather than a story starting at the Cape in 1652, they use archeological & multiarchival evidence to situate SA in a 1000-year history beyond the Limpopo & Indian Ocean. CORRECT LINK: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

JSAS 50.3 includes a Part-Special Issue 'Circulations in Southern Africa & Beyond through Artistic Practice', bringing historical, artistic & curatorial voices to debates on immigration & xenophobia in South Africa & to the historiography on circulations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excellent @orcid.org board meeting in Munich reaffirming the mission to connect research & researchers, providing free unique identifiers for all contributing to scholarship and innovation around the world. Such a well run, focused organization and vibrant inclusive global community.

Trump has accused South Africa of "human rights violations" and a land grab. The South African government has hit back.

ATTENTION: ALL JOURNAL EDITORS. Have the courage that Jocalyn Clark and Kamran Abbasi at the BMJ have displayed here. Call all this out for what it is. And then refuse to comply. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Illegal mining in South Africa is one of the themes in @zakesmda.bsky.social's brilliant novel Wayfarers' Hymns. Here's a review by @lizzyattree.bsky.social -> theconversation.com/book-review-... via @africa.theconversation.com #Stillfontein

Shining a light on the activist travel of black women trade unionists in and beyond apartheid South Africa. My article just out: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Upends conventional takes on travel, foregrounding hardwon, unglamorous, costly personal and political mobilities.doi.org/10.1080/1364...97

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Stimulating AfOx interdisciplinary Insaka. The provocations and inspirations of exploring infrastructure building of different kinds — the built landscape and the constructs of archives. Thank you Rehema Msulwa and Tinashe Mushakavanhu.

Much to get stuck into, shaking off the spruce needles….

Total joy—never dull!—interviewing the unstoppable Noo Saro-Wiwa. Deep dive into lives of Africans in China as explored in her stunning new travel book: Black Ghosts (Canongate). theconversation.com/black-ghosts... Thank you The Conversation Africa & Charl Blignaut.

Piece just out, thx to Mail & Guardian & @JCharlesLeonard. Explores anti-Rhodes activism and its symbolism then and now. Extract from broader essay on ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’ in @SAModernism’s new exciting book (Edinburgh Uni UP). mg.co.za/friday/2023-... #RhodesMustFall