Quick REMINDER: Our CRG is meeting for a get-together today at 13.50 in S23 (Neues Seminargebäude) at #ECAS2023. You are welcome to join to share your ideas about possible future activities or events - or simply to meet friendly colleagues.

3rd day of #ECAS2023 in Cologne. Don't miss our CRG's panel Poli20 on "Infrastructural futures: situating Africa within global connectivity initiatives". It will take place today at 5:15 pm in S61 (Philosophikum).

Thanks for joining, Martin Schmiedl. Lots of food for thought indeed.

#ECAS2023 is slowly coming to an end. Inspiring, full of innovative ideas. While the ideas of this conference are still resonating, we would like to invite you to Prague for #ECAS2025 organised by our association, and entitled: AFRICAN, AFROPOLITAN, AND AFROPEAN BELONGINGS

🚂📕 Our book on China's role in Africa's #RailwayRenaissance can now be pre-ordered. It's expensive but perhaps you can recommend it to your uni library? We feel honoured & are grateful for the reviews of some leading experts who have read the book. 👇🧵 shorturl.at/buPZ6

🚂🌍🇨🇳 These beauties just arrived. You can order your (e)copy here ➡️ shorturl.at/agmpW A 20% discount applies when using the code AFL02. T&F Africa @GSW_TUDresden Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk The China-Global South Project Lauren Johnston 江诗伦 SHANGWE UDADISI Dominik Kopinski Hangwei LI SAIS-CARI

The new issue of Modern Africa is out. It is dedicated to one of the founders of the Czech Association for African Studies, Prof. Josef Kandert.

Open access article, co-authored with Kjeld van Wieringen, on #China's "turn" towards #PPPs in #Africa as a means to "metagovern" the #BRI is out now in German Institute for Global and Area Studies's Journal of Current Chinese Affairs👉shorturl.at/nrsDZ Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk Second Cold War Observatory The China-Global South Project

Today, we feature our early career tandem project no. 2: “The coloniality of contemporary geopolitics in East Africa: Insights from Dar es Salaam” by Tim Zajontz (Tim Zajontz Second Cold War Observatory) and Muhidin Shangwe (SHANGWE University of Dar es Salaam)!

Interesting opportunity for scholars based at an African institution. Please share widely! UDADISI African Politics & IR SHANGWE @pietietwietie Kefa Otiso gilbert khadiagala Blanshe Musinguzi Thabit Jacob, PhD 🍉 Inocent Moyo Olabisi D. Akinkugbe C.Géraud Neema Adhere Cavince terrefebiruk.bsky Samwel Moses Ntapanta PhD

Together with Faye Donnelly & Gillian Brunton, I have co-edited a "special" special issue on the life & work of the late Prof. Ian Taylor. It is an open access issue in Contemporary Voices 👉 jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/159/volume/6/i… School of International Relations CSTPV Institute for Peace and Security Studies Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Ntwrk Gurch Sanghera Dominik Kopinski

We're proud to share our latest Contemporary Voices Special Issue that celebrates the life, work and contributions of Professor Ian Taylor. jtr.st-andrews.ac.uk/159/volume/6/i…

This seems to be an interesting opportunity for scholars/PhD students working on Ugandan politics and/or political economy. 👇🇺🇬

Our Podcast of the Week examines growing geopolitical and geoeconomic competition across infrastructure, economic corridors, and resource extraction in Africa, specifically Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. By Tim Zajontz buff.ly/3PKtxg9

The call for papers for the biannual conference of the Association for African Studies in Germany VAD e.V. (taking place in Bayreuth from 30.Sept.- 02.Oct.2024) is now open: nomadit.co.uk/vad/vad2024/

Interested in decolonisation? Join us next week

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📢 The first 3 volumes of the Yearbook on the African Union (2020, 2021, 2022) are now available as "open access" files ➡️ brill.com/display/serial… @BrillPublishing Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics UN Office to the African Union - UNOAU African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) African Union | Infrastructure & Energy African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security ISS EU Delegation to AU GIZ African Union African Politics & IR

The 8th Voice of Social Sciences Conference at the University of Dar es Salaam is fast approaching. If you are in Dar es Salaam next week, please join our DeColoniality Now panel on "Coloniality and Contemporary Geopolitics in East Africa".SHANGWE Aikande Clement Kwayu Cliff Mboya UDADISI Thabit Jacob, PhD