John D McInally

Another wonderful evening with Baron François d’Adesky at @royalsoced.bsky.social’s #Curious festival with @jdmcinally.bsky.social

09.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

François d'Adesky, Nicki Hitchcott, and John McInally in discussion

François d'Adesky

François d'Adesky

François d'Adesky and John McInally in conversation.

We had a wonderful evening, hearing the tragic, thought-provoking, and inspirational story of Baron François d'Adesky. @nickihitchcott.bsky.social

16.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a wonderful evening @jdmcinally.bsky.social and I had with François d’Adesky @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

13.02.2025 13:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Mothers of the Belgian Empire’s Stolen Children 6.30pm - FREE but please book During Belgium’s colonisation of what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, mixed-‘race’ children born from relations between European men and A...

Join us on 12 Feb at 6.30 at Byre Theatre St Andrews with François d’Adesky to hear about Belgian colonial crimes against humanity @sta-modlangs.bsky.social @jdmcinally.bsky.social
byretheatre.com/shows/the-mo...

28.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Africa has no shortage of celebrated writers – so why is it so hard for African readers to get hold of their books? Across the continent books can be expensive and libraries scarce. But growing numbers of tech innovators and independent publishers are working to make African literature available and affordable

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16.01.2025 20:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Telling stories that cannot be told: remembering mothers and daughters in métis narratives from Rwanda On the eve of independence in Ruanda-Urundi, hundreds of Métis children were taken from Catholic missions and flown to Belgium where they would be fostered, adopted, or sent to local boarding schoo...

Happy to announce the publication in African Identities of our latest article. It is free to read or download. With thanks to Royal Society of Edinburgh for their funding. for their funding of the project.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

06.01.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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01.12.2024 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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