Anjuli Webster

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We are pleased to announce our new Special Issue 53.1 which is #OpenAccess thanks to support from Kanazawa University Our guest editors @gareth-austin.bsky.social and @toyomumasaki.bsky.social on Currency Transitions in West Africa. We will be highlighting articles from it in the coming days!

- put down the damn AI.

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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started

www.instagram.com/reel/DOGfKA4...

In pictures: As Israel's genocide in Gaza marks its second anniversary, here are some of the most infamous images of Tel Aviv's carnage in the blockaded enclave.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Down with slop!

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why…

READ: The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.

Black and white image or Assata Shakur wearing silver earrings with cowrie shells in her locs, looking to the side talking to someone.

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press) and Toby Green’s The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Allen Lane UK edition) made it to the beautiful library of Universdade de Cabo Verde this week. #slaveryarchive

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Join the Makerere Dept of History, Archaeology & Heritage Studies today at 3pm in CTF1 Room 3.1/3.2 or on Zoom for the book launch of Henri Médard's Colonial Chaos: Land Politics and Conflicts on the Shores of Lake Victoria (1885-1925)

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Ethiopia launches Africa's largest hydroelectric dam Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region.

Ethiopia launches Africa's largest hydroelectric dam reut.rs/4gcSDAV

Caturday twins!

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

Israel is not an "ally" of the US. It is a proxy force. It is used to attack popular liberation movements across West Asia—and elsewhere in the global South—to prevent sovereign development and thus maintain the conditions for US capital accumulation.

It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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ESSAY: The Haitian Revolution and its Impact on the Americas, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1991 | Black Agenda Report “To understand the history of the Americas we must pay tribute to…Haiti.”

The Haitian Revolution and its Impact on the Americas.

Michel-Rolph Truillot

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Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.

A must read! 📚

I drew a whole bunch of maps for this book, and I am *really* looking forward to reading it!

A book jacket with a picture of mountains and a reservoir. The title reads: White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Just received the cover for my latest book! Coming in February 2026 to a bookstore near you in Southern Africa (available in North America and Europe, too), but published in RSA. Exciting stuff!

Looks amazing! Can't wait to read! 🤓📚

Given the rising mental/public health crisis of “AI psychosis” perhaps colleges and universities should stop promoting AI in the classroom. Already vulnerable to mental health crises, COVID-era students need social connection, critical thinking, and analog affirmation now more than ever.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social‬ (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

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Love that when outlets like the Atlantic or the NYT finally get around to writing a long piece on Sudan, they never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Sudanese person to write it. Despite Sudanese ppl pitching them 1000x over the last few years. And oh, let’s play ‘How to Write About Sudan’ bingo…