Together with Dario Fazzi, I am organizing a workshop on International Environmental Governance. "The Montreal Moment: Ozone Depletion and the Rise of International Governance" (Middelburg, the Netherlands) June 5-6, 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announce… ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15 DEC 2024

Second Annual International Studies Group/ Young Scholars Initiative UFS Boot camp Theme: Pandemics, People and Economic Margins Victor Gwande geraldine sibanda Alessandro De Cola Rebecca Swartz Clement Masakure Young Scholars Initiative Africa

The call for papers for #ECAS2025 is open. I am putting together a panel with nereida ripero on Somali cosmopolitanism and how the concept of Somaliness is negotiated in transnational contexts. See ecasconference.org/2025/ for more information on how to submit your work!

📚CODESRIA has drafted a bibliography of Thandika Mkandawire's work—a treasure trove of Africa's finest social science contributions. 🌍 A must-have resource for scholars in Africa and beyond! #SocialScience #ThandikaMkandawire 👉thandikamkandawire.codesria.org

Hello friends, I am happy to share that a new book from Inkani Books edited by me has just been published! The book, titled Can Africans Do Economics?, examines the intersection of economic development and freedom across the Africa. Drawing on the powerful ideas of former

I’ve long been disturbed by how I was expected to study development, but I couldn’t pinpoint what was wrong. 20 years later, I now get it: development follows the colonial logic of assimilation. The very language of “catching up” & “converging” reinforces this logic.

Call for papers: Global Solidarity Activism – Connecting Local and Global Histories Malmö, Sweden 11-12 June 2025. Abstracts due 15/2/25. Emma Lundin Duncan Money Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social Dr. Simamkele Dlakavu (PhD) Srila Roy Laura Evans Dr. T. Flor/ Dr. T. Flo Laura King Prof Maud Anne Bracke Laura Kelly

Tackle Global historical questions from the small but vibrant mining town of Zvishavane, Zimbabwe. DM for more details. Midlands State University Zimbabwe Historical Association

Saima Ndahangwapo's book on the once notorious Rössing Uranium Mine has been published. It explores how a mine that was a symbol of colonial injustice survived decolonisation and was re-imagined as part of an independent Namibia: africanbookscollective.com/books/defendin…

RJISSF Roundtable Review 16-24: Ketian Zhang's China’s Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion “a fresh perspective on Chinese foreign policy, making it a valuable contribution to the study of China and international relations” –Xiaoyu Pu wp.me/p2Insd-7hU

Coming soon: “Delinking and Global Reparations” by Kai Koddenbrock and I, with transcript Verlag. This volume gathers texts presented at the 2nd edition of the African Monetary and Economic Sovereignty Conference (Dakar, 2022). With Monetary Sovereignty in Africa IDEAs Maha Ben Gadha🔻 (1/3)

RJISSF Roundtable 16-28: Michael A. Allen, Michael E. Flynn, Carla Martínez Machain, & Andrew Stravers’ Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion “provides clear connections between the micro- and macro-levels of US base politics” –Charmaine N.

This cool book arrived today. Thanks Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social and Kai Koddenbrock for pulling it together! Based on the last Monetary Sovereignty in Africa conference in Dakar.

RJISSF Review Essay 120: Mick Ryan’s The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire “The book’s final section illuminates what the Ukraine war reveals about the future of warfare.” –Thomas Parker wp.me/p2Insd-7n7

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The International Studies Group UFS in South Africa is advertising funded PhD positions in history. This is a research-intensive department focusing on Southern Africa history. It's also a place where I spent three happy years working.

Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce this new project: a website dedicated to research and data on imperialism and inequality. You're going to love this... (links in thread below):

Excited to share my latest publication on women and artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe. Special thanks to my PhD supervisor Sandra Swart and geraldine sibanda and Alessandro De Cola for putting together the special issue on Reframing African Monetary History. journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…

Proud to share that the results of a workshop organised with geraldine sibanda UFS (funded by Young Scholars Initiative and with the support of the International Studies Group) have now been published in a dossier of the Southern Journal for Contemporary History journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…

The dossier includes contributions by geraldine sibanda Tinashe Bernard Kusena Jabulani Shaba : journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jch/…