Introducing the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund Created to honor Bill Leuchtenburg’s decades of service on our board and his towering contributions to scholarship in American History. Learn more in this thread 🧵

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

Excited to be part of this amazing collaboration which has helped me think more broadly and capaciously about histories of urbanism and architecture across the globe! Thanks to @staneklukasz.bsky.social for leading this initiative!

New UNC Press books have entered the villa 😎 ICYMI: our fall 2025 catalog of books publishing between August 2025 and January 2026 is now live on our site 🎉 uncpress.org/fall-2025-se...

Prepare for publication in an ASA Journal! ASA is calling all emerging scholars to apply for the PIPES pre-conference workshop this November 19 in Atlanta, GA. Review your eligibility, prepare your draft, and apply by May 15! africanstudies.org/a...

Fantastic opportunity for early career African researchers working on agrarian issues. www.peasantjournal.org/news/call-fo...

Looking forward to this book forum organized by the Duke Africa Initiative on 26 Mar with @cgastrow.bsky.social and @shakirahh.bsky.social

"Conceived as a rebuke of modernism’s minimalism + urban monotony, Gailhoustet + Renaudie’s master plan for Ivry’s town center is a jagged and diffuse pile of triangular volumes that leveled the unity of the superblock into a mosaic of ramps, rooftop terraces and gardens..."

President Ramaphosa’s touching tribute to the 14 South African soldiers killed during this month’s heavy fighting in the DRC, both as part of the SADC & United Nations missions. It was a solemn and proper opening to his address. They served their country, it’s important to honour & remember them.

Police fire teargas, stun grenades and, in at least one instance, live bullets at supporters of Mozambican opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane gathered at Maputo's airport for his arrival this morning. (via Adriano Nuvunga)

Historians: This is an extraordinarily useful collection of online archives that Evan has assembled.

Thanks @nickrushsmith.bsky.social ! I hope it meets expectations! Such an amazing number of books about African urbanism published in the last year.

Last Thursday's strike is eerily similar to a February drone massacre of 30+ people. I produced this visual investigation of it. Since the likes of Turkey, UAE, Iran and China began arming Ethiopia with drones in 2020, thousands of civilians have been killed in strikes.

🎉We have a contract! @uchicagopress.bsky.social will publish the Patchwork Ethnography textbook. If you're an Early Career scholar, please consider applying to our workshop. We're looking for contributors who can help advance our theorization. Deadline 6 Dec: patchworkethnography.com/events.

I mad a starter pack for African Studies. Let me know who else should be in here!

When you have a wonderful discussion with amazing discussants but subsequently realise you totally misunderstood the concepts one of your discussants asked you about 🙈 I am going to just take it as a reminder that I always have more to learn and more to read.

Milton Santos: the Dar es-Salaam years and their impact on one of the most important spatial thinkers. Some histories were yet to be written. Superb stuff in @antipodeonline.bsky.social #geosky #africapolsky #socialtheory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Come and join me and some wonderful colleagues in discussing my new book next week. More information and registration in the link below: carleton.ca/africanstudi...

UK freezes the assets of former #Angola first daughter Isabel dos Santos. www.msn.com/en-za/news/o...

My book is out! The Aesthetics of Belonging explores how urban aesthetics shape experiences and practices of political belonging: uncpress.org/book/9781469...