BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

POV: Telling your parents you just won the The Nobel Prize... The Drew Weissman Lab

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize

Excited to share that my colleague Hongwei Bao (he/him) and I are organising a workshop on Indian Ocean Epistemologies to be held Universität Tübingen in Mar. 2024 & ….okay Uni in June 2024. Please send us an abstract Godwin Siundu Sam Dennis Dr. John Njenga Karugia PhD. Indian Ocean World Centre

African and Afrodiasporic Imaginaries and Planetary Relationality Panel Eco001 conference VAD2024 #VAD2024 nomadit.co.uk/conference/vad…

A devastating loss to the academy! Go gently Monica Popescu.

The Annual Swahili Colloquium is here! Universität Bayreuth this week! I'm humbled to give the opening speech, but my highlight really is the chance to moderate a conversation on Decolonising the Mind between Mwalimu Abdilatif Abdalla and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ⭐️

Dear David Ndii, inform your master that #RejectTheFillanceBill2024 is bigger than what it seems. The signs have been there. An implosion is imminent.

Today Kenyans provided a masterclass in how to protest: The sharing of information & advice online. Lawyers/medics being available to assist. The solidarity from some businesses&places of worship. The commitment to peaceful protest.

The State will never cede before it gets what it wants. Benevolently give them a drop of water but after you've milked the wells dry.

Here is a colloquium organised by Prof Godwin Siundu on Literature, Culture and Politics of Eastern African Indian Ocean Worlds. Sam Dennis, Wafula Yenjela, Y. A. Owuor, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber 🇰🇪🇾🇪, Zinduko, Wambua Muindi, Jacky Kosgei 🏝, University of Nairobi

Congratulations Mashariki folks Felix Mutunga and Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima 🇺🇬 Nikitta Dede Sam Dennis Wesley Macheso Edna

New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature" Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd on the inherent racism of reproducing the Euro-American view of literature well, the NYT is the "best" at ERASURE! a little thread 1/ lithub.com/the-new-york-t…

I'm very happy to announce the establishment of African Literary & Cultural Studies at University of Tübingen Universität Tübingen 🥳 This is a program for which I've been centrally involved in setting up & I'm so proud of myself and my team! This is the first African Studies BA programme in

Congratulations Dr. Samuel Kolawole 👏👏

Dar es Salaam here we come. By Day, By Night, Here We Come! EALCS_Mashariki we cannot wait to see that cfp. Sam Dennis JM Kwanya Odongo POD Pumla Dineo Gqola, PhD Dina Ligaga Janet Remmington Ranka Primorac Literature Students Association (UoN) Wesley Macheso Ruth Bush Godwin Siundu see you in Dar!

5 more days to submit your abstract for the 7th Mashariki Conference in Dar this August. I'm excited to convene this panel with Clarissa Vierke and we look forward to seeing you in Dar! ♥️ EALCS_Mashariki JM Kwanya Godwin Siundu Literature Students Association (UoN) Sam Dennis Peter Simatei Y. A. Owuor

"Praying for the peace of Jerusalem is not a request - it's a command! 'Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you' (Psalm 122:6)." - @pastorjohnhagee