We're thrilled that this year's Annual International Conference will be chaired by Professor Patricia Noxolo (Uni of Birmingham), who is placing creativity at the forefront for all delegates. 🗣️ We sat down with Pat to discuss what inspired her vision for the theme.

⚡ This Tuesday! 🎓 David M. Smith Lecture 🎙 Patricia Noxolo Geography Birmingham 📝 “In the teeth of the pressure": Black lives and environmental crisis, in this more-than-human conjuncture. 🗓 11 Feb 2025. 🕕 6pm-8pm gmt/1pm-3pm est 📍 QMUL School of Geography/ Online eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-m-smit…

🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🔔 Calling all #AfricanScholars to submit applications for the #IsoLomsoFellowship by 15 February 2025. The fellowship includes residencies in Stellenbosch and abroad, international conferences and more. Visit stias.ac.za/fellowships/is… to learn more.

I finally got my hands on a copy…

I’m excited (and a little terrified) to announce that my book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, is finally here! 📚✨It’s a journey through the intersections of science, power, and culture, exploring how disease shaped — and was shaped by — the world. Atria Books

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📣 Call for Contributions! The Legacy Series on our podcast Runway to Feminist Justice features long-form conversations with feminists who shaped today’s movements. We are crowdsourcing guest suggestions!🧵 #RunwaytoFeministJustice #LegacySeries

The Critical Urbanism Program, U of Basel, the Urban Institute, U of Sheffield, and Soc-Cultural Anthropology, Leiden will conduct a School of Urban Popular Economy in Nairobi from Feb 2-6, 2026. Fully funded opportunities for 11 early career scholars. If interested contact:

"Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity." Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo, was born on this day 100 years ago.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer identifies as Nigerian. Badenoch was born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria and the US. She returned to England aged 16 because of Nigeria's worsening political and economic climate. bbc.in/3GRCvI8

I am very proud to be a contributor to "From the Flag to the Cross: Fascism American Style" published by OR Books on September 9. Chris Hedges Richard D. Wolff Henry A. Giroux Kshama Sawant and others are also contributors. OR Books orbooks.com/catalog/from-t…

A new initiative of the Federal University of Bahia and the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. See maresdeestudo.com

BREAKING: At the TICAD 9 meeting, Japan created a special visa program to settle African migrants in Japan. 4 Japanese cities were designated as “hometowns” for migrants from Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, and Mozambique. - Nigerians will be settled in Kisarazu - Tanzanians in

To prove her point about the vulnerability of the region, Mottley asked AI What other laws in the Americas were inspired by the Barbados Slave Code of 1661...Microsoft Copilot answered but deleted and declined to give her the answer.

🌅 Decolonising the Archive (DTA) & University of the West Indies launch accredited short program 🎓  'Correcting Our Collecting: Reparative Archiving Course' ℹ decolonisingthearchive.com/correcting-our… ⚡Register by: 17 Sep 2025 ⚡Start date: 23 Oct 2025

A new paper published in The Lancet — one of the world's most respected health journals — finds that sanctions imposed by the West on developing countries have caused *38 million deaths* since 1971.

Just found out that Nigeria has an online national repository with open access materials (including some out-of-print books I’ve been looking for). The folks in the National Library who had this idea have done a really great service for the country.

At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…