@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism in southern Africa. Lecturer, Department of Liberation Studies, University of Fort Hare.
“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps.
While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...
white background, african studies association 2025, book cover center atlas's bones by d. vance smith, get 30% off and free shipping
blue background, book covers left to right titled a will for the machine by mark sanders, the heretic of cacheu by toby green
grey background, book covers left to right titled humans in shackles by ana lucia araujo, informal cities by charlotte vorms
purple background, book covers left to right titled girl power? by sarah bellows-blakely, the killing age by clifton crais
At the African Studies Association meeting in Atlanta this year? We hope to see you there! Explore our featured books and get 30% off & free US shipping with promo code EX58096 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAFS #ASA2025
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We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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Celebrating the life and eternal work of the master myth-maker!
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The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 18 Nov at 2:30pm (Kampala time). Simon Werner @eui-eu.bsky.social will present "Social science between Busoga and Chicago: Lloyd Fallers, the East African Institute of Social Research, and the colonial networks of Cold War knowledge". See poster
15.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social)
The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com)
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I wrote about this last year: hitting all the markers of adulthood (and middle age!) while still being precariously employed. It’s not good for anyone. williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/p...
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Attending @asanewsonline.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting in Atlanta? Keep an eye out for AEH Editor and 2023 ASA Best Book Prize winner Mariana Candido. Inquire about submitting the work you'll be presenting to AEH and organising special issues with us! We hope to see you there!
11.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Shout-out to all the students still writing papers the old fashioned way; reading them feels like reaching an oasis of humanity in a desert of AI-generated slop.
10.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 53 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1Read Leigh Gardner's article, "Trade and Money in British West Africa" a monetary history of the seasonal demand for currency and how multiple currencies existed in West Africa beyond the establishment of colonial rule and colonial currencies.
The article appears in our #OpenAccess issue 53.1.
Flyer for UGA’s Race in the Atlantic World book series
Excited to join historians @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Ana Lucia Araujo and Toby Green as the new series editors of UGA’s fantastic, long-running “Race in the Atlantic World” Series. Please spread the word. We’ve expanded the geographical & chronological scope w/RAW 2.0 & welcome your proposals!
"As lungs need air, so the U.S. economy needs Latin American minerals."
—Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America
As we continue to spotlight work from our latest #OpenAccess issue 53.1, please make sure to submit your work in African Economic History to AEH! We would like to publish your work! We publish in English, French, and Portuguese!
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A photo of the African Economic History journal team. From Left to Right, editorial assistant Rene Odanga, Editor Mariana Candido, Journal Manager Chloe Lauer, and UW Press Journals Director Toni Gunnison at the African Studies Association Conference in Chicago 2024.
A close-up photo of AEH editorial assistant Rene Odanga. He is wearing a blue shirt, and smiling.
We're gearing up for the 18th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network in Maseru🇱🇸 from 30-31st Oct next week! Our editorial assistant Rene Odanga (LEFT) will be there looking forward to meeting with scholars of African Economic History. Reach out to him about submitting work to AEH!
24.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Édouard Glissant (70-something Black man with grey hair) smiling and surrounded by black and brown children in a city street
"We understand the world better if we tremble with it. Because the world trembles every which way. It trembles organically and geologically...with the climate—that we know. But the world also trembles through the relations that we have with each other. "
- Édouard Glissant, One World in Relation
I hate to be "that girl" again but as an early English scholar who has studied and written abt Tolkien's racism extensively (my field could have had Stuart Hall as a medievalist if not for Tolkein's discouragement), our fave South African scholar would have been quite comfortable w/ Musk's racism.
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US lies about wars.
They're lying about #Venezuela as well.
#QuestionTheOfficialNarrative
#HandsOffVenezuela
#HandsOffColombia
#HandsOffLatinAmerica
Jamaica contributes 0.02% to global greenhouse gas emissions even thought it is 0.03% of the global population.
Meaning JA emits 33% less than its population share would predict.
Meanwhile it’s facing a historic hurricane caused disproportionately by emissions from high income countries.
For the 38th anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s murder, Amber Murrey speaks with Burkinabè geographer Lazare Ki-Zerbo, who explains how a “political geography of insubordination” shapes Burkina Faso’s historical struggles and today's wartime Pan-Africanism. buff.ly/6G4IS0k
15.10.2025 10:04 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2FT reminding us why we should not take them seriously. Cause they act as stenographers for genocidaires.
FT didn’t tell you, of course, that Israel has violated the ceasefire 48 times, killed 38 people (including a family of 11, 9 of them children), and that the Rafah crossing is still closed
You can access the #OpenAccess issue here
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55035
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!
08.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2- 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.
07.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 25 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0Everything 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
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Down with slop!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
