@akpress.org have a 50% sale, so you can get Proudhon’s War and Peace for $15! Go on! Do something different in 2026 www.akpress.org/war-and-peac...

"Dans le droit fil de l’imagerie coloniale, Charlie Hebdo incapable de confronter les idées d’une femme noire sans la réduire à un corps dansant, exotisé, supposément sauvage. Ce dessin hideux vise à me rappeler ma place dans la hiérarchie raciale et sexiste." R Diallo Je ne suis plus Charlie...

Call for papers - International Conference of the Centre for African #Phenomenology Theme: In Commemoration of Two Recent Ancestors in Francophone African Phenomenology - 24th and 25th September 2026. www.thebsp.org.uk/2025/12/22/i...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Appreciate this piece from Marcus but the piece that’s missing from this essay is the fact that Kenyans and Indians are the primary content moderators or “clean up crew” for the commercially available AI data sets. So yes, he’s right to be upset at the implication but the next step is asking “why?”

Beautiful and so important indeed!

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

Student strikes at UCAD are paused and there are negotiations with the govt to allocate scholarships, grants, and subsidies due to students.

🔴 BREAKING - Multiple victims reported in shooting at Brown University in US

Looking forward to giving the keynote at the Beyond Berlin tonight. I’ll be focusing on British investors’ rapid transition from the extraction of African captives to the monopolistic extraction of Africa’s resources, long before 1884-5. Come along! www.africacentre.org.uk/news/140-yea...

Thanks to @hannahkateboast.bsky.social and @rosavcampbell.bsky.social for commenting on drafts. It's a more historical companion to my earlier article on desire and structural injustice, which owes a lot to Amia Srinivasan’s writing on these topics. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My article on the fraught politics of desire in the history of radical feminism has now been published at Hypatia. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🏅 Today I received this award. Lots has happened in 15 years. Overall I'm rather proud to be working @irph.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social, delighted to have so many great colleagues, & looking fwd to the hopefully many years to come. Thanks to all who shared part of the journey so far.

If you listen to one thing that I say let it be this - never allow yourself to be governed by people who hate you.

Today's edition of Thanks, I am Never Coming Out of the Archives are Kropotkin's notes on the manuscript of Modern Science and Anarchism in V.P. Žuk's papers held at the wonderful (and open access) Institute for Social History in Amsterdam :))

A Kenyan politician who had gone missing was located in an Ugandan prison.

Our next APEG seminar on Thursday, 11 Dec., will feature Dr Chikane (www.wsg.ac.za/people/dr-re...) from the Wits School of Governance. His talk is titled "The Hidden Architecture of Elite Power in South Africa." Please join us in person or online.

With temperatures dropping and snow in the forecast, New Yorkers struggling to afford the rising cost of heat can now apply for assistance from the HEAP program. Learn more about eligibility and apply here: a069-access.nyc.gov/accesshra/

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

Sudan is facing the world’s largest humanitarian displacement crisis, according to the UN. Nearly 14 million people are displaced internally or forced to flee to neighbouring countries amid the raging war. 🔗: aje.io/mupouz | #Infograph

“That sounds illegal”

Colleagues, I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of LSE Press and have recently taken up the position. If you ever wish to publish your book OPEN ACCESS, please do send your book proposals our way. press.lse.ac.uk/about

🔴Military officers declared they have taken "total control" of Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday, just three days after the country held presidential and legislative elections in which both major candidates claimed victory. Click here for more 👉 https://go.france24.com/z8w

A coup d’état has been confirmed in Guinea Bissau according to @aljazeera.com

My department has just announced a tenure track position for a scholar in any field of political science except for political theory (and IR, which is in a different department at LSE). For details, please see here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol

I’ll be in London in two weeks to talk about the politics of hunger in Sudan. I’d love to see some of my London fam (not necessarily for the talk :))

"In this conservative Islamic kingdom, where an unmarried mother can be jailed for an “illegal pregnancy,” it is as if their children do not exist. Without identification documents, they are banished to the fringes of society. Yet they cannot leave the country, either." -highlighting Kenyan nannies

Academia is like a relay race where everyone rewrites the baton

Friend Being Cagey About What She’s Going To Order https://theonion.com/friend-being-cagey-about-what-shes-going-to-order/

Made just as Sudan descended into war, 'Khartoum' captures the beauty, pain, and humanity of a city shaken by violence—and the filmmakers who became refugees alongside their subjects. africasacountry.com/2025/11/film...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

Sharing the Sudan issue of Transition Magazine with you with essays, analysis and art work by Sudanese writers and artists. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/home/current...

The Kenya Human Rights Commission (an independent nonprofit, not the statutory body) now estimates that up to 3,000 people might have been killed by the police and armed forces in post election violence in Tanzania.

I am stunned. This is horrifying. Identifying "proof" of genocide from space. Will UN member-states act? Embargo the funders? "humanitarian observers are suggesting the new satellite imagery shows a more systematic way of killing that is making them warn of a possible genocide unfolding."

Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston @mayorwu.boston.gov's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊

If you’re in Nairobi, displaced youth from Sudan are hosting a fundraiser for mutual aid groups in Darfur on Saturday November 8th. Lumin is a great community space ran by displaced youth from Sudan and Ethiopia and they have great coffee and tea. Tell your friends to tell their friends.

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/47O4mT0

Three hours left. zohranfornyc.com/vote

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

This group has been supporting a soup kitchen in El Fasher. Most of their volunteers were killed by the RSF. Survivors are now at a camp for the displaced in Tawila and seeking assistance to restart their soup kitchens. www.paypal.com/donate/

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

Re-upping Please support if you can, please share, they’re doing great and much needed work The situation is dire. #KeepEyesOnSudan