2025 brought many lessons. I returned to the Amatolas. Met wonderful colleagues deeply dedicated to teaching, learning and justice, even amidst the fires. Grateful for community and kindness.

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

This guy was just confirmed to be US ambassador to South Africa

Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

Nestled in the Shashe-Limpopo area, Mmamagwa was a significant satellite site of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom. Today, Mmamagwa is part of UNESCO Tentative List site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape spanning Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. #UNESCO #BotswanaSouthAfricaZimbabwe #Mapungubwe

I have a new article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the Jesuits and their role as agents of the Inquisition in Angola. It is now available as an advance article: brill.com/view/journal...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Time again for this annual post.

CFP: AEH welcomes submissions in English, French and Portuguese from all disciplines that relate to the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present. AEH is also interested in proposals for thematic special issues. Please send us your work!

We’ve grouped our primary source collections under historical themes! “Slavery and Abolition” contains 19 collections, totalling over 695,000 images. They document Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and opposition to it. Explore this theme at britishonlinearchives.com/themes/11/sl...

I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books. www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...

European conquest of the islands of the Canarian archipelago lasted almost a century (1402-1496). Genocide in the Canary Islands was via attrition and the aggregate result of violence. The Canary Islands were one of the 1st places in Atlantic to have plantations of enslaved African in the 15th c.

To paraphrase Walter Rodney: international law is white law. What we need is the dismantling of the european white supremacist global order and its replacement by truly global systems organized by the global majority

Someone in the replies claims China's clean energy development is only for export. This is false. China is installing more clean energy capacity than the rest of the world combined, while *also* exporting clean energy tech that's helping the rest of the world decarbonize.

“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps. While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...

At the African Studies Association meeting in Atlanta this year? We hope to see you there! Explore our featured books and get 30% off & free US shipping with promo code EX58096 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAFS #ASA2025

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Celebrating the life and eternal work of the master myth-maker!

The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 18 Nov at 2:30pm (Kampala time). Simon Werner @eui-eu.bsky.social will present "Social science between Busoga and Chicago: Lloyd Fallers, the East African Institute of Social Research, and the colonial networks of Cold War knowledge". See poster

I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social) The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I wrote about this last year: hitting all the markers of adulthood (and middle age!) while still being precariously employed. It’s not good for anyone. williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/p...

Attending @asanewsonline.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta? Keep an eye out for AEH Editor and 2023 ASA Best Book Prize winner Mariana Candido. Inquire about submitting the work you'll be presenting to AEH and organising special issues with us! We hope to see you there!

Shout-out to all the students still writing papers the old fashioned way; reading them feels like reaching an oasis of humanity in a desert of AI-generated slop.

Read Leigh Gardner's article, "Trade and Money in British West Africa" a monetary history of the seasonal demand for currency and how multiple currencies existed in West Africa beyond the establishment of colonial rule and colonial currencies. The article appears in our #OpenAccess issue 53.1.

Excited to join historians @araujohistorian.bsky.social Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!

"As lungs need air, so the U.S. economy needs Latin American minerals." —Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America

As we continue to spotlight work from our latest #OpenAccess issue 53.1, please make sure to submit your work in African Economic History to AEH! We would like to publish your work! We publish in English, French, and Portuguese!

We're gearing up for the 18th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network in Maseru🇱🇸 from 30-31st Oct next week! Our editorial assistant Rene Odanga (LEFT) will be there looking forward to meeting with scholars of African Economic History. Reach out to him about submitting work to AEH!

"We understand the world better if we tremble with it. Because the world trembles every which way. It trembles organically and geologically...with the climate—that we know. But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. " - Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation

I hate to be "that girl" again but as an early English scholar who has studied and written abt Tolkien's racism extensively (my field could have had Stuart Hall as a medievalist if not for Tolkein's discouragement), our fave South African scholar would have been quite comfortable w/ Musk's racism.

They're lying about #Venezuela as well. #QuestionTheOfficialNarrative #HandsOffVenezuela #HandsOffColombia #HandsOffLatinAmerica

Jamaica contributes 0.02% to global greenhouse gas emissions even thought it is 0.03% of the global population. Meaning JA emits 33% less than its population share would predict. Meanwhile it’s facing a historic hurricane caused disproportionately by emissions from high income countries.

For the 38th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism. buff.ly/6G4IS0k

FT reminding us why we should not take them seriously. Cause they act as stenographers for genocidaires. FT didn’t tell you, of course, that Israel has violated the ceasefire 48 times, killed 38 people (including a family of 11, 9 of them children), and that the Rafah crossing is still closed

You can access the #OpenAccess issue here muse.jhu.edu/issue/55035

We are pleased to announce our new Special Issue 53.1 which is #OpenAccess thanks to support from Kanazawa University Our guest editors @gareth-austin.bsky.social and @toyomumasaki.bsky.social on Currency Transitions in West Africa. We will be highlighting articles from it in the coming days!

- put down the damn AI.

Thread 🧵 Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️ 🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started www.instagram.com/reel/DOGfKA4...

In pictures: As Israel's genocide in Gaza marks its second anniversary, here are some of the most infamous images of Tel Aviv's carnage in the blockaded enclave.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Down with slop! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

READ: The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press) and Toby Green’s The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Allen Lane UK edition) made it to the beautiful library of Universdade de Cabo Verde this week. #slaveryarchive

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?