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🚨 New Episode 🚨 Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla D. Brown & Luqman Nation Media (AR&D Ep.2) Our 2nd ep in African Revolutions and Decolonization is a 2+ blockbuster, you absolutely won't want to miss this! Next in the series will be...Mau Mau 🔥 Ep👉 guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/pan-africanism…

Surrounded by Yusuf Serunkuma (2024) 📖 A sharp, radical look at how new colonialism hides behind “free markets” & “democracy." IMF, World Bank, NGOs - same script, new costume. Africa remains surrounded. #Surrounded #YusufSerunkuma #DecoloniseThePage #EditorHouseFacility

Yusuf Serunkuma🌹's Surrounded is a peerless dismantling of the new colonialism. Copies available today Editor House Facility (EHF). ROAPE journal Centre of African Studies Ben Radley Africa Is a Country

We're deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at the age 87. His words shaped and reshaped our grasp of African resistance and decolonisation under colonialism and the postcolonial era. Rest in power. #NgugiWaThiongo buff.ly/08Dt8tC

Well this is a conference next week I'd like to be at - 70 Years After Bandung: Challenges and Struggles on the Road to Self-Determination and South-South Solidarity - plus at the bottom an excellent looking list of authors and blogs on the topic. networkideas.org/announcements/…

Writing for ROAPE on recent developments between Israel and Eswatini, Ruehl Muller argues that Israel’s growing presence in Southern Africa poses a direct threat to regional stability and the region’s ongoing democratic project. roape.net/2025/05/30/bor…

Update: it's out and available in book stores!! ✨✨

Thanks to Artur Colom for this generous review of Disrupted Development in the Congo. "an important read for scholars of African political economy, policymakers and anyone interested in the intersections of mining, development and global capitalism". doi.org/10.1080/022551…

In this short excerpt from the conclusion to his recently published book - Military #Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957-2023 - Adam Mayer urges the importance of returning to and learning from #Africa’s Military Marxists. roape.net/2025/06/04/the…

British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"

🤔 How has the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s position within the imperial order shaped its current conflict? 🔍 Ben Radley and Nicholas Fairwood analyze the conflict and the history of imperial intervention and interference in the country. 📑 Read the full New Left Review

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

My research of the last 10 years featured in the lead editorial of The Guardian, on massive transfers of wealth out of Zambia hidden away on an obscure part of its financial account in the BoP. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Not everyday a yet-to-be-presented paper at hetecon conference makes Guardian lead editorial ""Zambia’s economy is not being plundered by domestic actors but by transnational corporate practices" Happy to have my ticket. No pressure Andrew M. Fischer! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Cheap lab-grown diamonds are the outcome that the diamond industry has been postponing for over a century: the end of scarcity. I've written about this and the implications for diamond mining countries in World Politics Review: worldpoliticsreview.com/diamond-mining…

Fantastic overview of the spread and scale of industrial activity in pre-colonial Africa, including textiles, shipbuilding, construction and glassworking. By Isaac Samuel. africanhistoryextra.com/p/historic-ind…

Black Histories in Bath is a new walking tour app developed by Uni of Bath researchers in collaboration with Fairfield House and BEMSCA. The self-guided tour highlights the rich but often overlooked contributions of people of African and Caribbean descent to Bath's history.

Staff or student at @uniofbath? Coming to Development Studies Association conference at #Bath this week? Download this new (& free!) walking tour app on Android & Apple that celebrates Black histories in the city, from the Roman Empire to the present day. devstud.org.uk/2025/06/13/bla…

If you're at Development Studies Association today/this week, something to check out... x.com/RadleyBen/stat…

Today is the day. After weeks of the various distractions & disturbances that make up academic life, & the worry over a paper that's not moving forward, I have an entire day to write. And here I am, procrastinating, unable to write. Brilliant. Thanks brain.