“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” - Donald Trump on immigration during the presidential debate x.com/RealSaavedra/s…

he wins, I’m applying for German citizenship.

What is meant by “COLONIAL COLLECTIONS”? A set of artefacts necessarily acquired through coercion, plunder and violence? I unpacked these notions for a blockbuster museum exhibition “Colonialism in Things”, soon to open in Munich. Check it out open access: academia.edu/125306891/Bres…

🥂This Monday our book, a theoretical foundation of an Hamburg school of (post-)colonial provenance research of sorts was published with De Gruyter History ➡️ dgb-history.bsky.social. It sums up many of our projects over the last couple of years Koloniales Erbe It is free to download👇 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Richard Hölzl im Interview mit Ann-Sophie Ludwig vom Culture Club auf münchen.tv muenchen.tv/mediathek/vide…

A new journal about African history has its maiden issue - see more below - just in time for the holiday season!

This development in eastern Congo should be getting far more media attention that it is. The second largest country in Africa by area is being invaded!

KINSHASA: MULTIPLE EMBASSIES ATTACKED Videos have emerged showing multiple embassies being torched and vandalised by protesters in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, Kinshasa - including the Belgian, French and Rwandan missions. Tires were burned outside the US

Dividing Dar is a splendid book that examines the intersection between space, race and colonialism in German Dar es Salaam. Honoured to receive a copy with a personal note from the author, Dr Patrick Christopher Hege, whom I have known since 2015. A 2025 De Gruyter Official ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Enjoy

Steve Bannon: "President Trump is going to run for a 3rd term and Trump is going to be elected again — on the afternoon of January 20th of 2029, he's going to be president of the US” They’re not joking, despite what some have claimed. We must be prepared