Aditi Malik

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Ugh, so so infuriating. And also so familiar!

10 essential reads on African politics for summer 2025. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

Continuing the spirit of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular started by @texasinafrica.bsky.social & me 10 years ago, Kelechi Amakoh has curated a list of 10 recent African Politics books for @goodauth.bsky.social that he thinks we should all read:

goodauthority.org/news/10-esse...

10 essential reads on African politics for summer 2025. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

Here are 10 essential reads on African politics for this summer.

From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

goodauthority.org/news/10-esse...

Ruto Once Courted Kenya’s Youth. Now He’s Trying to Silence Them Instead of listening to protesters’ grievances, Ruto’s government is repressing them. That’s a bad sign for the health of Kenya’s democracy.

Instead of listening to protesters’ grievances, Ruto’s government is repressing them.

That’s a bad sign for the health of Kenya’s democracy, @nanjala.bsky.social‬ writes.

I thought National Review was reaching hard w the 'college sophomore moved a table' piece but 'high school senior of South Asian descent, who was born & spent the first few years of his life on the African continent, thought he should check both the Asian and African American boxes' is even goofier

nation DAILY©NATION Black Wednesday: Nine killed, 400 injured as protests rock 27 counties Nine people were killed, about 400 injured, and 61 arrested on Wednesday as at least 27 counties witnessed protests marking the first anniversary of the June 25, 2024, demonstrations that saw youth protesters storm Parliament.

The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.

Playing with Fire Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Playing with Fire

"Deserves close attention and sustained engagement from anyone interested in the complex relationship between violence and democracy."

Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India by Aditi Malik, Out Now

#ComparativePolitics #PoliSky 💙📚

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Playing with fire: parties and political violence in Kenya and India Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Erik Cleven's research on Kenya informed much of thinking on party-driven violence. Very grateful for his review of my book in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. The review is below, and the book can be found in all the places one goes to for academic books: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V6DHK...

We are still accepting applications for our fully funded Writing Workshop on International Politics in Africa, focused on scholars based in Africa (held in Nairobi in 2026). Feel free to apply or forward to your networks!

A Harvard international student was just detained for hours and had her devices confiscated by CBP at Logan airport. She was released but this comes hours after DHS ended the ability for international students to enroll at Harvard.

Absolutely terrifying time for colleagues and classmates.

It wasn’t a winnable fight. But that wasn’t the goal. The goal was to live to fight another day, and make the case for a reasonable audience.

The first one: ✅
The second: let’s see

The impending meeting between Ramaphosa and Trump tomorrow is going to be interesting.

Congratulations! Very much looking forward to reading this.

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🔹 Grateful for the opportunity to reflect on the 'behind the scenes' of how we compiled "Brave Women" w/ @kiranstallone.bsky.social 📕

🔹 Check out our Note from the Field in Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social ✍️ #OpenAccess

🔹 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Book Presentation Dr Aditi Malik: Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India - Centre of Governance & Human Rights We are very excited to be hosting Dr Aditi Malik for a presentation of her book "Book Presentation Dr Aditi Malik: Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India"

I'm giving a book talk at the University of Cambridge next week (Tuesday, March 18). This is the place where this project began in many ways, so I am very much looking forward to being back. For folks in the area, please consider joining!

www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/events/book-...

📢 New episode!

Why do political parties use violence to achieve their goals in some political contexts but not in others?

@niloufersiddiqui.bsky.social talks with us about her award-winning new book on violence as electoral strategy in Pakistan.

www.scopeconditionspodcast.com/episodes/episode-39

Coping mechanism to deal with being thrown into New England winter + snow after an extended South African summer. Also, omg winter 🥶

I've been an avid listener of #GrandTamasha for years; it was so lovely to be able to chat with @milanv.bsky.social about my new book, "Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India" for the podcast. Have a listen here: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/par...

What a cool paper! Looking forward to reading this.

I'm very excited to have Dorina Bekoe, Justine Davis, Risa Kitagawa, and Scott Straus share their thoughts on the book. Please join us at 10:15am in O'Hare (10th floor) if you can!

Looking forward to the African Studies Assoc. meeting this week, and to being back in Chicago for a few days. For those at #ASA2024 with an interest in party violence and election-related conflict, my book will be featured in an author-meets-critics panel on Thursday, 12/12.

Really looking forward to reading this! Congratulations @jswahutu-nyu.bsky.social 🎉

Hooray! So thrilled to see this - congratulations! I can't wait to read and assign 🎉

Thanks so much! Haven't been here much, but I really appreciate the shout-out 🙏

Proof (lol!) that this book is real. Out in the world summer 2024 😊