Zeinab Badawi, President of SOAS, on What the people of Sudan need from us ft.com/content/49e706… via @ft

On en rêvait, Zeinab Badawi did it: a book on African history in the voices of African scholars! & I finally got to meet the amazing Historian 😋

Inspiring to listen to these brilliant, intelligent & beautiful African European scholars.

African women continue to shine!

Temptation: a ridiculously early and packed calendar and then this gorgeous woman's book arrives and the carefully planned schedule is forgotten for a couple of hours.
Santa Montefiore , what you do to my willpower! 😂😍

Star-billing with ⁦Historian⁩ and ⁦Zeinab Badawi⁩ introducing Zeinab’s wonderful new book #AnAfricanHistoryofAfrica ⁦SOAS University of London⁩ ⁦Ebury Publishing⁩ ⁦AfricanStudiesUK⁩ ⁦Royal African Society⁩

We are honoured to host the launch of Zeinab Badawi's new book, 'An African History of Africa', at SOAS tonight.

This is a new account of Africa: the history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans.

The book is out today.

Nestlé ? You again? Can we bring the 1977 Baby Killer scandal up please?

Nestlé adds sugar to infant milk sold in poorer countries, report finds theguardian.com/global-develop…

Happy publication day to Zeinab Badawi 🎉
I look forward to seeing some of you tonight SOAS University of London Ebury Publishing #AfricanHistoryofAfrica

Just been watching this on Channel 5 - a tale of British ports. From its patriotic “swashbuckling” tone I thought initially that it would simply gloss over the trans-Atlantic slave trade, but well done Historian for as good an account as possible given the constraints.…

Leaving NY in a few hours. Physically more tired than when I arrived but mentally relaxed.

He led Brazil’s Black sailors in resisting abuse. A hundred years later he may get justice theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

EXCITING EVENT SOAS University of London
I'll be in conversation with
Zeinab Badawi for the launch of her new book on April 18. #AfricanHistoryofAfrica

I would guess this is about uranium, above all.

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,” --

Hannah Arendt

Catching up on the news. Wow ...

A day in NY with my baby sister, the shopaholic. 17 shops today! My only purchase: this lovely tote bag at the Apollo Theater. Me 'we're in Harlem, can go to the Schomburg Center?' Dudette actually sneered 'you can do your grown up things in your own time'. Bratty last born!

Racist backlash against Francesca Amewudah-Rivers's casting as Juliet has pretended to oppose 'inaccurate' or 'woke' casting, as if Shakespeare's Juliet were a real historical figure or a fixed point in theatrical tradition.

I reviewed Zeinab Badawi's new book AN AFRICAN HISTORY OF AFRICA for The Guardian - a refreshing, sweeping, detailed corrective to narratives imposed on the continent by others.

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

At Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris.

Saying goodbye et merci to Caribbean literary giant Maryse Condé. Rest in power.

Journalists move fast! WaPo just published this washingtonpost.com/style/power/20…