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Excited to be at #ECAS2023 to present my paper on how groups membership affects post-revolutionary expectations of political leadership!

Looking forward to present today and learn more from the other amazing papers on the panel!

Add to this gender and other sources of bias and yes this is how hard academia is for many minorities

And that’s a wrap on my first ever Essex Summer School - Social Science Data Analysis teaching experience! Awesome participants and TA (thanks Samira Diebire!) & lots of R! Already looking forward to planning for next year but first time to catch up on sleep & take a few days off 😀 Thanks #ESS2023!

Achille Mbembe on self-styled expertise on African politics, the eternal recycling of clichés, and how the critique of the Françafrique has become 'the mask of formidable intellectual poverty' jeuneafrique.com/1471632/politi…

Now that it is basically official, we are happy to share that we won a large Economic and Social Research Council grant of 2.5 million GBP(!) - with a fabulous team of colleagues in Cameroon, DRC, Mozambique, Nigeria & Uganda, and of course Government @ Essex, Lang & Ling, and ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social.

Ahh! I am so excited to launch my dissertation study on Black women’s experiences in PhD programs! To be eligible, you must identify as a Black woman, be 18 years of age or older, and be currently enrolled in a PhD program (in any discipline)! #PhD #Dissertation

Feels like home: Grateful to be back in Bologna Johns Hopkins SAIS Johns Hopkins BIPR to present work w/ Samira Diebire @MartinSteinwand on how African governments’ foreign policy reflects public opinion (on trade & free movement). Thanks Sergey Radchenko et al for having me! @SAISAfrica SAIS Foreign Policy Institute

Looking forward to hearing @EAnionwu speak. What an honour to have her join us to celebrate Black history month University of Essex @Forster_Anthony Professor Victoria Joffe Professor Camille Cronin Anisa Salim Samira Diebire . Delighted to also have our alumnus Maxine Obeng. All welcome

📣NEW BOOK 📣 In the biggest election-year and with the rise of populist leaders, post-truth is more relevant than ever. How shall we think about it? How does it affect voters? My forthcoming book w/ Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies answers these Qs. Details will follow, here’s the book cover!

#ESS2024 scholarship specifically for Political Science/IR PhD students based in the Global South - please circulate widely and get your students to apply for excellent intermediate & advanced methods training. More details below!

Some professional news below - I’m really enjoying myself here at UNU-WIDER and learning so much!!

Very pleased that my paper on correcting acquiescence bias in fully unbalanced likert scales has been published open access in Quality & Quantity today: link.springer.com/article/10.100… A (not too detailed) thread on the paper below 1/18

🚨New publication out in CDS🚨 I look at the way Essex School scholars have understood the concept of the demand and then turn to the integration/"leading culture" debate in Germany to show how far-right demands were mainstreamed before the AfD existed. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It’s out!! 😁📕 Get your copy here: routledge.com/Towards-a-New-… Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies Details of book talks to follow soon!

Excited to kick off AfricanStudiesUK 2024 on Thursday with our panel on "International Affairs and Foreign Policy in Africa" in the African Affairs stream, presentations by Mwita Chacha Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye Eniye Christian Dubakeme Samira Diebire @MartinSteinwand and me. Thanks Jonathan Fisher 🇺🇦 for organising!

Interested in doing research at a UN institute in Helsinki? Whether you're a current PhD student or have finished, we have opportunities for you! Apply now for our Visiting PhD Fellowship or Visiting Scholar programs. More details here: go.unu.edu/wSwDq

Thrilled to announce that I am kickstarting my book tour with Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth in Belgium, France and the UK! 🪂 Schedule in the link below 👇 anamkuraishi.weebly.com/book.html Routledge Books

The years since 2020 have been one of the most violent periods since the end of the second world war. Here are 5 consequences of ignoring the conflicts across the world: go.unu.edu/Ynrob Piece by Patricia Justino, Laura Saavedra-Lux, Samira Diebire published in The Conversation