TODAY: Alexa Höhn will give a talk about West African domesticated plants in the medieval period @goetheuni.bsky.social afrikaforschung-rheinmain.de/events/alexa...

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Tomorrow, Felix Schürmann (Frankfurt) will be speaking about the Geology and German Colonialism in Cameroon. afrikaforschung-rheinmain.de/events/felix...

Tomorrow: Isabela de Aranzadi (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) will be speaking on “Musical culture and Afro-Atlantic itineraries: Living memories among the Fernandino-Krio and Annobonese people of Equatorial Guinea”. www.movingcultures.de/isabela-de-a...

„New German Guidelines on Colonial Returns Fail Rights Test“: Important statement by Human Rights Watch @hrw.org @bundeskultur.bsky.social @diplo.de @laenderkultur.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

We are proud that Joachim Ouedraogo, geographer and specialist in urban developments from Burkina Faso, chose to come to @goetheuni.bsky.social for his research leave.

Congratulations to Oladele Ayorinde, who has got funding from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for a research fellowship in Frankfurt. He will be spending two years at the Institute of Musicology @goetheuni.bsky.social from February 2026. We look forward to welcoming him here!

Von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen beschlossen: Die bedingungslose Restitution von ethnologischen Sammlungsstücken. Nicht ganz so bedingungslos findet Larissa Förster, Direktorin des Weltkulturenmusums Frankfurt.

Apply! Especially Global south scholars! Economic Geography is a pretty open discipline! If you are interested in the nexus capitalism, nature-society and space, this is for you. @jamiepeck.bsky.social and colleagues have worked tirelessly over the years to make this happen #geosky #ipesky

Toutes celles et ceux travaillant sur l'Afrique savent l'importance de ce projet et de cette série dans l'historiographie du continent !

Heute Buchvorstellung mit Henning Melber 19:30 im Club Voltaire, Frankfurt a.M. @he-mel.bsky.social

This Semester, Anthropology's African seminar series @goetheuni.bsky.social has a fascinating mix of talks on aspects of colonialism and decoloniality, mobility, and memory, as well as clothing and inheritance. Thursdays, 6-8pm

Ich kann’s nur wiederholen: gemeint sind wir alle. Das zeigt sich schon in der Anfrage: „postkolonial“ ist für die AfD jede*r, der*die sich kritisch mit der kolonialen Vergangenheit beschäftigt, zur Geschichte Afrikas oder Asiens forscht oder irgendwie mit Ex-Kolonien kooperiert.

Were pleased to announce a new ZIAF-funded lecture series on transoceanic exchanges in African culture, literature, and music, beginning on 28/10! @goetheuni.bsky.social @fzhg-frankfurt.bsky.social

The artist Sana Ginwalla has created an online photo archive based on 1000 uncollected negatives, slides and prints that she found in the attic of Lusaka’s oldest photo studios. What a great initiative: www.zambiabelonging.com

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Partners from the Musée National du Mali, the Musée du quai Branly @quaibranly.bsky.social, and #MARKK Hamburg met in Frankfurt at @goetheuni.bsky.social in a joint project on the provenance of objects marked Bamana/Bambara, and including source community voices through "contre-enquetes".

Umaru Musa is visiting the African Archaeology unit and the Frobenius Institute @goetheuni.bsky.social . He is hunting documentation of old excavations in Kebbi State, Nigeria