Ma dernière chronique pour @liberation.fr revient sur la genèse de l'Histoire Générale de l'Afrique publiée en onze volumes par l'UNESCO, entreprise scientifique et éditoriale initiée dans les années 1960 ("la plus impressionnante de ce siècle" dixit l'un des premiers contributeurs).

Les volumes précédents de l’Histoire générale de l’Afrique sont disponibles librement depuis la page www.unesco.org/fr/general-h...

✍️ Le volume IX de l’«Histoire générale de l’Afrique», fantastique projet collectif, décolonial, et en accès libre, revisite les connaissances sur le riche passé de cette région d’Afrique de l’Ouest, se réjouit l’historienne Madina Thiam. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/RHQ

Ma dernière chronique pour @liberation.fr revient sur la genèse de l'Histoire Générale de l'Afrique publiée en onze volumes par l'UNESCO, entreprise scientifique et éditoriale initiée dans les années 1960 ("la plus impressionnante de ce siècle" dixit l'un des premiers contributeurs).

I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...

The deadly violence of xenophobia. "Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as 'invisible shipwrecks' but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know."

Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law. roape.net/2026/03/17/b...

Hundreds Missing in “Invisible Shipwrecks” in the Mediterranean UN data shows 682 migrants missing in the Mediterranean by March 16/2026, the deadliest start to a year, as Italy, Tunisia & Malta restrict information on rescues & shipwrecks.

Tiempo Garan Kouyaté, né à Ségou en 1902, mort dans un camp de concentration en Autriche en 1944.

✍️ Le militant Kouyaté face à l’industriel François Coty : il y a un siècle, les racines coloniales du fascisme L’obsession du riche homme d’affaires d’extrême droite à combattre le syndicaliste anticolonial a d’étranges résonances contemporaines, relève l’historienne Madina Thiam. Lire 👇

In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)

Looking forward to reading this!

I'm pleased to share my latest article, available open access. I wrote about the long aftermath of a nineteenth-century war in central Mali, and how an intimate approach to historical research and writing can yield new understandings of time and space in African history. doi.org/10.1017/hia....

Dans ma chronique pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur la genèse d'un monument que les Bamakois connaissent bien, la fresque Mohammed al-Durah, et au delà, sur les voyageurs dont les itinéraires et les imaginaires ont connecté le Sahel à la Palestine depuis des siècles tinyurl.com/LibeSahel

Le séminaire Antiracismes et sciences sociales reprend avec un très beau programme!

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx

Please visit our new webpage on Cambridge Core (@universitypress.cambridge.org) ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950. Bamako, 1959. Des militantes de la première heure livrent un réquisitoire à la fois contre le joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre Tribune de‪ @thiamm.bsky.social‬ ⤵️

Dans ce billet pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur une époque où les femmes d'Afrique de l'ouest étaient engagées localement et à l'international Et sur un événement fondateur: le congrès de l'Union des Femmes de l'Ouest Africain, juillet 1959, Bamako www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

NYC, join us tomorrow for the launch of Verso's Southern Question series we'll discuss the (re)release of Andrée Blouin's My Country, Africa, and Adéwálé Májà-Pearce's This Fiction Called Nigeria 7pm at The People's Forum, more info + tickets here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...

New York! Join us for a screening of Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence Afterwards I'll be in conversation with director Kalidou Sy 🗓️Monday May 26 📍Maysles Documentary Center 🕜doors open 6pm Free with registration. Grab your seat, we don't have many left! RSVP🔗https://pp.events/b2QYQNBm

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Just back from Morocco and if you guys are in Casablanca, please visit Siniya research. It's a community center, archive, and translation space taking its partial inspo (and name) from Nas El Ghiwane, revisiting panafrican histories that almost were, and doing much more.

Last night was 10/10 the highlight of my time at NYU so far. Long live Onions, cheers to the colleague who said we ride until dawn, and s/o to RK aka the best to ever do it (iykyk). Free Palestine!!🍉