Don't, well, actually do let the door hit you on your way out!

Me, looking at how Labour is hyping he (because yet again he has to be a he?) who is to become the next PM.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

OTD, 💔❤️✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

ODT: Dr Walter Rodney, SOAS University of London alumni (PhD in African History, slavery in Upper Guinea), was assassinated.

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

Will the restitution to Cameroon begin soon? Return of ancestral remains to Maca community from Germany could signal breakthrough for all Cameroonian communities. @historianmemory.bsky.social @akpf.bsky.social @hist4dem.bsky.social @regartless.bsky.social 👉 dekolonial-erinnern.de/will-the-res...

Could this day get any worse? Marjane Satrapi 💔

Researchers working on Portugal in 16th century, I have a question for you. How many enslaved people were there in Portugal in the 16th century AND did they indeed make up for 10% of the population? The figures & sources I have don't match.

I should have been there tonight but no trains and only a few replacement buses that couldn't bring me back to the wild wild West Wales. I missed out 😩 I LOVE Prof Qureshi's work. The book is brilliant!

Quite a week! Filming for the Orwell Prize; invited to the Elysée Palace by President Macron for the 25 years of the Taubira Law; several important announcements made there, like the dissolution of Code Noir, finally & more. Trying to write while travelling😩 Resting in the Wild West Wales now. Phew.

Historian Lucy Worsley investigates the American Revolution on BBC. Episode 2 is on but if you missed the 1st one with moi, making an appearance, here www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Reform stickers on some cars, the new normal in Wales? This Black woman does NOT feel safe in some places these days. Imagine finding out people you know and liked voted Reform. Imagine fighting alongside the 'White working class' all your adult life only to see them choose Brexit & now Reform.

Wow! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London, last night on stage with the amazing 2021 winner of the International Booker Prize, David Diop at Southbank.

3 days ago in Venice at the Biennale for the Caravan of words dedicated to Koyo. Very emotional.

Invited to the pre-opening of the Biennale in Venice to celebrate our sister Koyo Kouoh who joined the ancestors May last year 💔

2 weeks ago, another celebration in London, the superb exhibition, the music is Black at V&A East.

2 weeks ago, a celebration for a book I endorsed, Trapped Life by Dr Ebony Reid.

2 weeks ago, invited for the unveiling and to meet King Charles and Queen Camilla at the British Museum.

3 weeks ago in Brussels for the opening of an incredible exhibition at the House of European History.

OTD 10 May, official date for the commemoration of the abolitionS in France. I won't be there. These last weeks have been very busy.

After Brexit, you'd think people would've kicked those charlatans to the curb. Instead they're hate-bonding again over Black & Brown people's tiny presence in Wales. As for 'protest voters' (vs Lab) chosing Reform over Plaid Cymru, really?? Le big sigh, vraiment. www.pollcheck.co.uk/welsh_pollin...

Sale pitching for a ballroom?? Lawd!

Ah, so much has been happening that I forgot to share here. For example, I was honoured to receive an honorary doctorate from one of Europe's oldest universities Universite Catholique de Louvain. 🥹

Happy St George's Day 😘 youtu.be/diYAc7gB-0A?...

Restorative Justice - Seeing the practical impact on certain communities and being a teeny tiny part of this truly makes me proud. The whole team works INCREDIBLY hard. Words can heal and actions can build. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

When I was approached some time ago by #MerkyBooks, rapper Stormzy and Penguin's publishing company, to see if I'd be interested in reading a book, I was intrigued as it seemed to resonate with stories about my neighborhood in Wales.

On that note, really loved @gregjenner.bsky.social's You're Dead To Me episode on Alexandre Dumas with @historianmemory.bsky.social & Celya AB www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This Wednesday 22 April, join us @hatchards.bsky.social Dr Jess Venner and I will be in conversation about her new book The Last Day in Pompeii. www.hatchards.co.uk/events/the-l...

I can't wait to see the exhibition when I go to Stockholm (soon). St Croix is 1 of the ports I wrote about in my book (at painstaking editing stage) on 15 Ports that made Empires through Slavery (Basic Books (US) / John Murray (UK)). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

To mark 10 years of the International Booker Prize and celebrate all things translated fiction, we’re hosting a special, one-off event at London’s Southbank Centre on Friday 8 May 2026. Find out more and book your tickets now: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/the...

Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con @casa-africa.bsky.social buff.ly/WGsMVlg

This would have so much more punch if it wasn't a picture of a gay jewish fella and a blond white woman dancing.

I'm not saying I once published an article called "The Micro-physics of Öffentlichkeit" just because I could, but I did once publish... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is huge. Finally! He wasn't alone though ... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

That’s British English for “No.”

That was incredible. Fabulous match won by France with a penalty after the clock went red. Sad for Ireland who so nearly stole the championship. 🇫🇷48🏉46🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

African countries: Cameroon, Sénégal, Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria & many others, criminalizing homosexuality and increasing sentences. You chosen to break your fellow humans physically & mentally.

A question for legal minds ahead of our Lecture with Prof. Olufemi Amao: African Union has produced extraordinary normative texts. But enforcement remains the main challenge.What’s the biggest obstacle to making #AUlaw enforceable in practice? We’ll bring this into the room on 18 March.

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Newly Discovered Document Confirms a ‘Legendary’ African King www.medievalists.net/2026/03/newl... #history #AfricanHistory #Nubia

Not in a celebratory mood today. Patriarchy is decimating the earth & ALL her inhabitants. #InternationalWomensDay

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Cortisol level & blood pressure spiking big time. Not good. Someone in Washington/Mar o Largo & another 1 in Tel Aviv made a decision as a consequence, we are all involved in a war. 2 of my sisters can lose 2 of their babies RIGHT NOW in a conflict we didn't didn't vote for. Beyond ENRAGED.

This ... youtu.be/dQHUAJTZqF0?... and youtu.be/mn91L9goKfQ?...

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿