Melat Kiros @melatkirosco.bsky.social Recovering Lawyer | PhD Student | Barista | Democratic Nominee for Congress, CO-1
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social UFW - fighting for farm workers since 1962. Sí Se Puede!®
Etienne Le Rossignol @elerossignol.bsky.social Economist
Under the blue sky
Based in Pornic
https://etiennelerossignol.wordpress.com
Nina Kleinöder @nkleinoeder.bsky.social Historian University of Bamberg | Economic and Social History | Labour and Education | Business History | Colonial History
SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social 🌍 @SOAS Department of Economics
🔗 https://linktr.ee/soas.economics
Carlos Oya @carlosoya.bsky.social Professor of Political Economy of Development at SOAS University of London, into labour, agrarian change, economic transformations, survey design, development policy, and Atlético de Madrid.
Instituto de Ciências Sociais - Universidade de Lisboa @ics-ulisboa.bsky.social O ICS-ULisboa é uma instituição de formação avançada e investigação de excelência. A sua missão é estudar as sociedades contemporâneas, com especial ênfase na realidade portuguesa e nas sociedades com as quais Portugal tem relações históricas.
Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, Africa, genocide, postcolonial memory; Prof Global History
Founding president INoGS. Personal views
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de EXC 2036 Beyond Slavery and Freedom Asymmetrical Dependencies in Pre-Modern Societies
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en
Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social News and events from the History Department in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies @SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk and the SOAS History Blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/
Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
DAAD Worldwide @daadworldwide.bsky.social The world's largest funding organisation, supporting the international exchange of students and scholars.
Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social Historian of eastern and southern Africa @uclhistory.bsky.social interested in memory, sovereignty, and decolonization.
GLC at Yale @yaleglc.bsky.social The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at The MacMillan Center at Yale University.
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
Nordic Journal of African Studies @njas.fi Supporting stellar scholarly work on Africa. Providing opportunities. No fees, open access.
Visit our website: https://www.njas.fi
Zentrum für Afrikastudien Basel @zasb.unibas.ch The ZASB coordinates Africa-related teaching and research at the University of Basel and its partner institutions. It is an acknowledged centre for interdisciplinary Africa-focused research and offers a Master's and a PhD in African Studies.
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social Historian
🔗 thiam.me
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social The African Studies Centre Leiden of @unileiden.bsky.social is the only research centre on Africa in the Netherlands. African Library. Master and Graduate Programme. Seminars. Publications. Visiting fellows. 
German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de Area studies and comparative area studies on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and Global Affairs from Hamburg, Germany.
Website: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social Historian of European colonialism and modern Africa @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @Wadhamcollege.bsky.social. Working on Mau Mau, anticolonialism, infrastructure, and Maasai history.
FORAGENCY @foragency.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant FORAGENCY. Foraging, Colonialism and More-than-Human Agency in Central Africa
Social History of Capitalism Research Group (SHOC) @shoc-vub.bsky.social
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For more info, check our website: www.ercforagency.eu
Journal of Global Slavery @journalslavery.bsky.social Promotes the understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives
https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/jgs-overview.xml
Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social The Journal of Global History is an open access journal published by Cambridge University Press. It aims to be the leading scholarly outlet for innovative analyses of global historical phenomena.
Nana Osei-Opare @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Rice University
EnvHumsOxford.bsky.social @envhumsoxford.bsky.social Housed by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, at Oxford University.
Webpage: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-research-hub?filter-4-event%20type-4780496=2s
IHC @ihchistory.bsky.social IHC - Institute of Contemporary History
Multidisciplinary research institute in modern and contemporary history located at NOVA University Lisbon and at the University of Évora. Member of IN2PAST.
Founded in 1990.
Header: our logotype
Avatar: our symbol
João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social Historian | Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies | Pilecki Institute | Warsaw | Researching Cold War in Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-0600
John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social Prof African History MSU
White Gold: https://tinyurl.com/ymt64kfz
Dreams for Lesotho: http://undpress.nd.edu/9780
Publications here: https://tinyurl.com/ynvwp6c5
MSU FS Chair 2026-27
Lesotho, development, borders, running, Michigan
Views my own
Dept. of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA), UoB @dasauob.bsky.social Anthropology, history, African studies, Africa and beyond
Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social A peer-reviewed biannual multi-disciplinary journal devoted to research on the cultures, literatures, history and societies of the Lusophone world
https://www.mhra.org.uk/journals/PS 
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
Science and Empire Commission @sciemp.bsky.social Official account of the Science and Empire Commission - SCIEMP
> A Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) | https://scienceandempire.com/
Philipp Hofmann @philipphofmann.bsky.social Historian | Religion, slavery, and landownership in early modern Angola | Postdoc at International Studies Group, University of the Free State
Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social Carceral geographer, California apologist, valued customer.
Read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
David Lubin @davidlubin.bsky.social I’m the Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. Formerly I was head of emerging markets economics research at Citi.
Lisa Musumba @lisamusumba.bsky.social Communications Coordinator @africaprog.bsky.social • Host of the #AfricaAware podcast • views are my own
Chatham House Africa @africaprog.bsky.social @chathamhouse.org’s Africa Programme is a world-leading centre for independent policy research on African politics.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/africa-programme
Podcast🎙️: soundcloud.com/chathamhouse/sets/africa-aware
Romane Dideberg @dideberg.bsky.social Research Assistant at Chatham House's Africa Programme - Political economy of conflict, natural resource governance, Sahel, Great Lakes
Alex Krasodomski @alexkj.bsky.social Tech, AI, Digital Public Infrastructure and old border foils at @Chatham House. Fellow @ ISD, Demos, Public AI network
Paul Melly @paulmelly.bsky.social Reporter/researcher; Chatham House Consulting Fellow. Sahel-W. Africa, rural dev, Madagascar, French & EU Africa policy. Tweets own views; RTs not endorsements
Luregn @luregn.bsky.social Environmental Historian working on nature conservation, land, borders, animals, and landscapes in Southern Africa and beyond.
🌱🇳🇦✊🏼🌍🚞🗺️🫏
Darja @darjawolf.bsky.social Decolonization & Humanitarianism @unibt | Global & African History @unibt & @SOAS | History @unibielefeld and @Univ_Paris | Postcolonial City Walks in Bayreuth
ZIAF Frankfurt @ziaf-frankfurt.bsky.social Centre for interdisciplinary African Studies @ Goethe University
Account run by Nick Gestrich
Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) @miasa-ug.bsky.social MIASA is an institute based at the University of Ghana, Legon-Accra.
Research in Sustainable Governance & Knowledge Production
Funded by BMFTR and the University of Ghana
CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant CATTLEFRONTIERS
(Post)colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa
For more info, check our website: https://cattlefrontiers.eu/
Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social Internationally refereed, Afriques is an academic journal about African worlds focusing on periods prior to the twentieth century.
journals.openedition.org/afriques/
afriques.hypotheses.org/
Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
Politique africaine @politiqueafricaine.bsky.social Revue de sciences sociales du politique à propos de l'Afrique et des Afriques. Established 1981. Alive and kicking ! https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue
Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.
Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social Historian of African Great Lakes | Associate Professor history @ugent | associate editor @CJAS_RCEA | Academic mom. I got very lucky.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fractured-pasts-in-lake-kivus-borderlands/28EE1FFBB2BDDA8814964DD39656B959
@mojubaolu.bsky.social @mojubaolu.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, African, and Women's Studies. Lover of Nigeria. Proud Grandma.
Emily Burrill @esburrill.bsky.social Historian @ UVA History | modern West African history | Global 1950s | Global democratic formations | French empire | Feminist & Gender Studies | Law & Society | Author @ OH U. Press & U. of WI Press | Editor at U. VA Press | Vermonter in VA
Florence Brisset-Foucault @fbrissetfo.bsky.social Academic at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Political thought, media, citizenship and regime change in Africa, with a v. soft spot for Uganda 🫶 🇺🇬. 
Bwesigye (aka Friday) @bwesigye.bsky.social Nyanja born and raised living in Los Angeles. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. Afro-nationalist.
Megatrends Afrika @megatrends-afrika.de Research and policy advice on the effects of megatrends in Africa. We are a joint project by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel Institute).
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; ESRC MCCRA; East Westphalian
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
Brian J. Peterson @brianjapeterson.bsky.social Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Author: Thomas Sankara https://iupress.org/9780253053763/thomas-sankara/ Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
Dan Hammett @hamstertowers.bsky.social Political geographer, co-editor of International Development Planning Review, author of Global Development: The Basics, and Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance | citizenship, geopolitics, humour |
Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma.
https://www.kim-todzi.de/
Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
AAG Energy @aag-energy.bsky.social The official Bluesky feed of the #Energy & #Environment Specialty Group (EESG) of the AAG
#geography #sustainability
tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social the haughty people of the earth do languish
economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation
(he/him)
tomwestland.com
Agricultural & Rural Studies @agri-rural-studies.bsky.social Agricultural & Rural Studies (A&R, ISSN 2959-9784) is an international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platform for communicating advances in fundamental and applied studies on contemporary agricultural, rural, and farmers' issues and policies.
Noemi Alfieri @noemialfieri.bsky.social Poet I Researcher NOVA FCSH I Book History I PhD | African and diasporic literatures
Former Visiting @africaclusterbt @africanstudiescentreleiden
From Torino 📍Lisboa / Leipzig
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Association for Borderlands Studies @absborders.bsky.social 📚Leading international scholarly association on borders & borderlands
📆 Next annual meeting: March 25-28, 2026 in Albuquerque, NM
https://absborderlands.org/
Africa Special Interest Group at University of Essex @africasigessex.bsky.social The Africa Special Interest Group is the hub for interdisciplinary studies focusing on Africa @universityofessex.bsky.social, and contributes to joint research activities, education, as well as student and cultural events on Africa.
🦋 ViaCampesinaBE @bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social 🛜 #ViaCampesina #LaViaCampesina #UNDROP #PeasantsRightsNOW #FoodSovereigntyNOW #PeasantAgroecologyNOW #PeasantAEachievesCJ #JoinTheFediverse
👉 https://linktr.ee/JoinTheFediverse
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at Durham University is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.
Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. Check out our longer bio at https://roape.net/about-roape/
Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social Fellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better and The Plague Cycle. (CGD doesn't have institutional positions, so don't blame it for mine).
Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
Daniel Smith @drdanielrsmith.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology | Cardiff University 
Dr. Marie Huber @mariehuber.bsky.social Researcher. Writer: History, Economics, Africa | co-founder @metoohistory.bsky.social
Tiago Castela @tiagocastela.bsky.social Historian of architecture and urbanism teaching at Coimbra and researching at Porto’s Faculty of Architecture, Berkeley grad, peripheral urbanisms, housing
Claire Mercer @clairemercer.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography, LSE, UK. Research on urban peripheries, housing and social class. Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
MaggieDwyer.bsky.social @maggiedwyer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Explore our website 🖥 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 http://eepurl.com/iwXSu-/
Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social Geographer/planner and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy transitions, urban climate responses, landscape interpretation, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York
Sophie Haines @sophiehaines.bsky.social Anthropologist of development, environment, infrastructure and science. Snr Lecturer at Edinburgh Uni
Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social West African politics maniac. Bissau-Conakry-Dakar-Banjul & all things Boko Haram. https://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/membre/vincent-foucher/
https://afriquexxi.info/
https://polaf.hypotheses.org/la-revue
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Timothy Burke @timothyburke.bsky.social Professor of History at Swarthmore College. Writes at timothyburke.substack.com, continuing from his old blog Easily Distracted. Remembers when there was no Internet, and stays up late because someone is wrong on it. 
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
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Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social writer/prof📍🇫🇷🇿🇦
Gouvernance résiduelle. Histoire sud-africaine du monde à venir• https://sl1nk.com/vw4jv4w
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