Happening this Monday, 13th May, 4-6pm (BST)! Join us for what promises to be an exciting conversation. Zoom link and the list of speakers available here: ccpt.leeds.ac.uk/events/revolut…

Thanks, as ever, to editor Paul Jump for asking me to contribute and turning things around efficiently.

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My interview with the wonderful 31 MAY DURBAN PLAYHOUSE/WEBTICKETS — read it while listening to the just released Sankofa. Can’t wait to hear it myself. Set to be one of the releases of the year.
#Thandiswa #Sankofa
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South Africans still not deterred in their plans to emigrate to Israel, even with full knowledge that Hamas is hiding in their refrigerator (I guess better to take chances with Hamas than local car guards; real toss up).

📢𝗔𝗹𝗳 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗡𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗻 and I are hosting another webinar on 20 May. Join us!

This one focuses on how conflict, militarization & political transition shape the politics of land, feat Alia Gana (@SorbonneParis1), Bengt Karlsson (@Stockholm_Uni) & Eric Hoddy (@UniOfYork)Eric Hoddy York Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre

The curious case of South Africa where the government must remind universities of their moral compass.

If you are a current Wits student, alumni, or academic and support the Wits Palestine Solidarity Committee call to have Wits University divest from apartheid Israel, please sign this : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#Wits4Falasteen #AllEyesOnRafah #DivestFromIsrael

Phd student ho toh aisa 👊🏽👌🏾

“[Zadie Smith has] mastered the trick for which the haut monde sent her off into the world.  While positioning herself as a Deep Thinker detached from primitive loyalties, Smith painstakingly tethers expressions of ambiguity to the status quo, the most primal loyalty of all.”

Very useful collection.

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Congrats Olimpia Burchiellaro. So well-deserved. For those who haven’t already, check out Olimpia’s stellar book: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-gentrifica…