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NEW FELLOWSHIP FOR 2025 We are delighted to announce a new fellowship opportunity in 2025 to mark the 90th anniversary of the British Council 🎉 We are offering two 12-month Fellowships for international early career researchers (at £2,500 per month) starting in January. 🧵

Mogadishu '74 revisited over Geeska - چيسكا I wrote about African petropolitics, a sensational scandal at the OAU, and disunity in a time of crisis fifty years ago geeska.com/en/disunited-c…

Have a look at this new post on the papers of 'the member for Africa', the anti-colonialism and peace campaigner Fenner Brockway, which have now been fully catalogued for the first time. buff.ly/4cmSCHC

Libraries, art galleries, work space, and foliage at Schiphol

Below is our History & Archaeology seminar series for September - December, 2024 Semester. Please, mark your calendars and join us beginning September 5th, 2024. Onsite: University of Nairobi Towers, 4th Floor Room MLT04 Online: us02web.zoom.us/j/81167524129?…

If you've just seen headlines and images, and want a succinct, pithy account of what's going on in Kenya right now, here's Nanjala Nyabola theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Kenyan Protests, Part One: The political education of President William Ruto: africanistperspective.com/p/kenyan-prote…

Saw someone walking around Moroni here in Comoros in a Chennai Super Kings shirt and I have many questions #IPL #Comores

My book is out. You can order here global.oup.com/academic/produ… Intro chapter here (free for a month) academic.oup.com/book/56203/cha… It explores how the political economy of a regime shapes its party and legislative institutions, & why that matters for distributive/democratic politics. 1/

Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment - our new @PastPresentSoc forum w brilliant essays Jeanne Morefield Jessica Reinisch @daviderodogno1 Paul Betts Glenda Sluga Jan Eckel academic.oup.com/past/article/d…

'"Clarky' compiled 28 editions of his homespun publication, usually by commandeering a local copy centre in the hours before a Test series began, and stitching together an eclectic range of contributions using paper, scissors, glue and emails." espncricinfo.com/story/andy-cla…

Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books” africanarguments.org/2024/07/mkuki-…

Me on Southport and Tainted Love theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam - book out now! Published by University of California Press. Free to download from ucpress.edu/books/the-subu… #ucpress, #LSEGeography

Out Now! Pick up a copy of our (w Rui Lopes) #OpenAccess edited volume ‘Globalising Independence struggles in Lusophone Africa’. Many thanks to our authors from across the world and to Bloomsbury for making it happen ! #twitterstorians Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde NOVA FCSH

Gone elsewhere to a friendlier place: dropped the username initials, so we're on first name terms now: george-roberts.bsky.social