Rebecca Glade

Those interested should submit to the journal! Our CfP for next year's issue is still active until December 19th.

The Makerere Historical Journal was established in 1975 and ran from 1975-77 then from 1988-91. We are now publishing again with support from Makerere University Press and their excellent production team.

The revival issue of the Makerere Historical Journal is out! It has been an honor working with the rest of the editorial team to publish this issue and revive a historic East African journal.

Sudan’s People Are Rebuilding Their Capital Without Government Help U.S. aid has evaporated. Government promises remain unfulfilled. But Khartoum's residents are making their neighborhoods livable again, with or without institutional backing.

This article profiles how impressive Khartoum residents are in rebuilding their homes together, as a community. I'm struck by the injustice of it though
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Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine.

"in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

Sudan needs support and funding for food aid among many things. But the country will not be "saved" by foreigners. Communities are surviving now because of the heroic work of ERRs and Sudanese civil society. Miliband's interview is ghoulish.

The transitional government "did not get the backing it needed" because the int'l community demanded austerity, not security sector reform, yet somehow that's not mentioned. Then fudging about genocide in Darfur (explain 2023 Geneina to me without the term), and demanding support for INGOs. Gross.

The Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World Is Going Mostly Ignored And things are only going to get worse as U.S. aid lags.

What an embarrassing interview. Choosing to interview a British NGO director rather than someone specialized in Sudan. THEN editing out almost all mention of the revolution, popular demands for civilian government, and ERRs and Sudanese mutual aid. Bad choices by Harris, and bad framing by Miliband

Education Denied: How War and Inequality Have Weaponised Education Access Against the Next Generation - أتر The war is systemically eliminating pathways for education, normalising a future where learning becomes a privilege of the few. Education in Sudan has been not only an essential service but a means of...

I am thrilled to have published this piece with Atar Magazine.

"in the midst of a counter-revolutionary war in which all armed parties target civilians, pathways for education are being systemically eliminated for the general population..."

Reminder: Every time you shop at an independent bookstore, Jeff Bezos loses a little bit of power.

Thank you so much Nisrin for writing this excellent essay! I've learned a lot from it.

Talk about disgraceful. It's also remarkable how completely this sort of discussion ignores that this is counterrevolutionary war-you don't have to endorse SAF to decry the RSF.

This. I've found that there's often a downside to strict policies in high achieving environments, even on things that are important. Students who you need to be firm with don't necessarily respond better to harsher policies, but the students who are rule followers end up getting VERY stressed.

Some people really make me wish their liberation was not bound up with mine. But like, you deserve to be free, but I wish you would stop being a turd.

During each of the previous assaults on Gaza, Sudanese women brought their gold - their only asset and means for security - to send aid to the people of Palestine. Do not dishonor my people by using Sudan's suffering as a zionist shield.

Some forms of automation are useful. Others aren't. All should be understood as tools with limits, advantages, and disadvantages.

One thing that gets lost is that people have called things "AI" for a long while, and in many ways, all it means is "automation." Translation via machine learning can be really useful-and it also functions differently than LLMs.

and she seems very very upset...

Obviously it won't come to that extreme in the US with cutting SNAP benefits. But I wouldn't be surprised if poor people made homeless end up taking up poorly paid jobs that they otherwise would have passed on due to poor working conditions or insufficient pay for commute, etc

This is important. During famines in Sudan in the 1980s, rural dwellers would leave their land in moments of food unavailability (from systematic dispossession followed by crop failures) and take up exploitatively low wage jobs in cities in order to get food, creating essentially a slave economy.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

🧵 Thread of resources on various aspects of Sudanese history/archival attempts (loosely defined). Will be slowly adding to this throughout the week, focusing on the labour of individuals/smaller scale attempts rather than larger grant-funded institutional ones. Feel free to add.

Simply do not vote for the bloke with the Nazi tats. I'm drunk and think people should not pretend this is a difficult choice politically. No Nazis.

I don't don't remember if it discusses methods extensively, but Liat Kozma's Policing Egyptian Women used 19th c police reports as sources for social history and changing gender and state roles/powers in a really fascinating way.

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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Fun doesn't take away from the seriousness nor does it nullify the anger. But joy goes much further in sustaining long-term action than anger and seriousness alone.

All the commentary about humor being effective in fighting fascism is true, but one thing I think Americans sometimes miss is that protesting *should* be fun and contain joy...

I will always look back fondly on the guy in Khartoum who attended anti-coup protests in 2021 in full spiderman costume.

This isn't a commentary on Machado, it's a criticism of the prize itself. If the ERRs in Sudan had won, it would have been good for their access to funds and leverage re armed parties. But *they* would have given the Nobel foundation prestige as far as I'm concerned, not the opposite.

Look, the Nobel Peace Prize has *never* been the arbiter of good works. Maria Corina Machado takes her place among Abiy Ahmed, Henry Kissinger, and Theodore Roosevelt. That good people sometimes get awarded it is just proof that a broken clock is correct twice a day.

I've said it before and will say it again: people who use endnotes have something to hide and should not be trusted.