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UK freezes the assets of former #Angola first daughter Isabel dos Santos. msn.com/en-za/news/oth…

Online seminar on the #Mozambique elections just started. Africa Is a Country youtube.com/watch?v=LlSjZs…

If you woke up to news of my forced disappearance or even death tomorrow, please ask the President of Zambia By Sishuwa Sishuwa On Wednesday this week, I gave an interview to The Mast, one of the main private newspapers in Zambia, in which I criticised President Hakainde Hichilema

Possibly I knew this but I'd forgotten. Radical South African poet Breyten Breytenbach (RIP) was the brother of Jan Breytenbach, head of SA Special Forces during the war in Angola & Cloete Breytenbach, a photojournalist who today we might call 'embedded'. litnet.co.za/breyten-breyte…

From my courageous friend, colleague and comrade Sishuwa Sishuwa - the powers in his home country are after him again.

What I like about this is the way it marries the Richard Scarry aesthetic with the particularly South African usage of the word 'busy' which doesn't necessarily involve any activity at all.

Stayed in this mountain hostel in Slovakia in 2017 and they now spam me for black Friday.

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Joe Biden currently in #Angola, another country where the offspring of serving presidents are traditionally beyond the law.

I can see that posting this cartoon is going to be an annual event. Marking done, scrambling to catch up with journal work, hoping maybe to start writing before Christmas.

“Several neighbourhoods in Maputo have tyres burning and huge clouds of smoke. At the moment, access to Maputo International Airport is blocked. This is the famous Avenida Acordos de Lusaka, one of the "barracks" of the demonstrations. Venâncio Mondlane said that the ruling of

Authors who published with Cambridge University Press may have got an email requesting consent for your work to be used in Generative AI licensing agreements. My advice, JUST SAY NO. We know the damage AI is doing to students. A contract signed now will be meaningless in a year.

OPINION | Stand with South Africa against Trump’s wrath: To allow South Africa to be isolated and punished would be to surrender to the imperial logic that seeks to divide and conquer all who resist. mg.co.za/thought-leader…

Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anticolonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism. taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

‘On Tuesday 27 May, our new Special Issue tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/cur… ‘#BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawian #state’ will be launched University of Malawi (UNIMA). Join in person or register here for the link to join online: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Great to see this Special Issue of JSAS being launched next week in Malawi & online: papers by Malawians & non-Malawians using #Malawi as a case study to rethink the study of African politics. Congrats editors Sam Farrell, Tanja Hendriks & Zoe Groves. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

If you have a master's in history & are interested in a PhD particularly on #Angola, #Mozambique or transnational histories of liberation in southern Africa, I'd be interested in seeing your research proposal.

In tribute to the wonderful Rashid Lombard, RIP, I'll retweet this.

In Luanda for the launch of this edited volume on #Angola after Dos Santos, in Portuguese & English with contributions by Angolan & foreign scholars. Both versions in the link. My chapter is on the politics of public memory 50 years after independence. cmi.no/publications/9…

Enjoyed talking about the relationship between MPLA soldiers & ANC liberation fighters in 1980s Angola: more difficult than the official declarations of solidarity would suggest. I argue it fuelled the 1984 MK mutiny. The article will be published in Journal of Southern African Studies early 2026.