Yolanda Aixela Cabre @yolandaaixela.bsky.social Antropòloga, Black Spain R&D Project, Grup DIVERSE (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona)
Jessica Gardner @jessicagardner.bsky.social University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
Roger Middleton @rogermid.bsky.social Founder The PhotoBridge Project www.thephotobridgeproject.org
Also Horn of Africa research. MD Sabi Insight Ltd and Rift Valley Inst Fellow. Ex CDI, Oxfam & Chatham House.
Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @belgiancongo.bsky.social Historical content From #Belgium, #Congo, the #BelgianCongo, #CongoFreeState, #RuandaUrundi and King Leopold II of Belgium!
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
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Thomas Probert @thomasprobert.com Documenting serious violations of international humanitarian law. Formerly @UNHumanRights.
Writes slowly on the politics of human rights and development. Posts slower.
London • Geneva • Cambridge • Pretoria
Ufahamu Africa @ufahamuafrica.bsky.social A podcast about life and politics on the African continent.
Jerwood Library @jerwoodlibrary.bsky.social Libraries of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
Helen Clough @helenclough.bsky.social Associate Director at the Open University Library interested in relationship management, strategic planning, and supporting distance and online learners in HE libraries. She/her
Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Belinda Dodson @belindadodson.bsky.social Semi-lapsed academic. Research interests in migration, gender, and development; mainly Southern Africa.
Lives in Ottawa, Canada. Previously Eswatini, Zambia, South Africa, UK.
Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Incoming Lecturer at St Andrews in the School of International Relations. PhD from Cornell. Studies land reform, agriculture, colonialism and elections in South Africa and Kenya.
www.dyzenhaus.com
Alesha Porisky @aleshaporisky.bsky.social Assistant Professor at NIU, PhD University of Toronto. Studying social policy, cash transfers, and state-society relations in East Africa.
Jeffrey Ahlman @jeffahlman.bsky.social Professor of History and Gwendolen Carter Chair in African Studies at Smith College. Writes on Ghana, African decolonization, and African transnationalism.
Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa.
More on https://duncan.money
Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
David R|3 @davidreiss.bsky.social International Relations, International Political Economy, eclectic connector of people and ideas. Working on German-South African relations. Unapologetic mad man. Somewhere between the Black Forest, Dresden, Cape Town, Fanon, Marx, Che and Robinson #VfB
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, intl politics and governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; Co-Director @africasigessex; ESRC MCCRA
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History.
“Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
Mia Uys @miauys.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UCT working on a more-than-human history of South Africa’s National Zoological Garden.
Merete Bech Seeberg @mbechseeberg.bsky.social Associate professor, political science, Aarhus University. Elections, authoritarianism, democratization, women in politics, Africa.
https://meretebechseeberg.weebly.com/
Terrence Lyons @tlyons.bsky.social Student of civil wars and contentious politics, particularly in the Horn of Africa
Elena Gadjanova @elliegadjanova.bsky.social Political scientist. Ethnic politics, political communication, and social media in Africa. Writing a book on cross-ethnic outreach in highly diverse states. British Academy Innovation fellow 2025-2026.
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"
Poppy Fry @pfry.bsky.social Lapsed academic, Historian of Southern Africa in/and the British Empire, currently: MSW at UW Tacoma, lifelong Mariners fan, Toastie, probably watching baseball or British Antiques Roadshow, she/they
@ritakesselring.bsky.social @ritakesselring.bsky.social Anthropologist, Assoc Prof of Urban Studies @unisg.ch Zambia, South Africa, Switzerland. Books: Bodies of Truth (SUP 2017), Mother Unknown (Chronos 2025), Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development (ZED 2024).
Adrian Gallagher @adriangallagher.bsky.social Professor in Global Security and Mass Atrocity Prevention, University of Leeds. Currently fleeing Musk & writing a book on the Central African Republic. I make music and art in my spare time.
Meera Venkatachalam @meerakat.bsky.social South-South relations; Mobilities; Afro-Asia; India in Africa; Africans in India; West Africa; Voodoo/Vodun.
Third Worlder. Cat person.
Abote Abotebuno Akolgo @abotebuno.bsky.social Economist, Research & Program Manager, Africa - International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Judith Verweijen @judithverweijen.bsky.social Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
Gregor Dobler @gregordobler.bsky.social Anthropology, History, Southern Africa. Work, labour and leisure. Some politics. Works @unifreiburg.bsky.social
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Sarah Fluck @sarahfluck.bsky.social Africa Correspondent Swiss Public Radio SRF @srfnews.ch. MSc African Politics via @SOAS; BA Journalism via @IAM_Winterthur and @mazluzern. Web: sarahfluck.com
Sedef Asli Topal @sedefaslitopal.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
Matt Graham @sahistorymatt.bsky.social Senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee. Come for the African history, stay for sporting enthusiasm, music, travel talk & musings on South Africa
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
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
Sonia Le Gouriellec @morningafrika.bsky.social Asso. prof IR, #HornofAfrica #securitystudies Auteur:Djibouti: La diplomatie de géant d'un petit Etat; Géopolitique de l'Afrique; Pourquoi l'Afrique est entrée dans l histoire (sans nous)?
Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social Migrant.
Northeast Africa & Red Sea. Frontiers & state visions, regional political economy & security.
Works at @rvinews.bsky.social
Views my own.
Leonie Felicitas @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social Still finding my way into bsky | Currently PhDing @UvA_AISSR | West Africa/Senegal - EU, b/orders, colonial continuities | She/her | Somewhere between Brx, Brln, Dkr - mostly in a library |🍉.
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
Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social Cultural Studies is a field-defining, peer-reviewed journal published 6x/year by Routledge | Nabil Echchaibi & Ted Striphas, Coeditors
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current
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Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
Aethiopica Journal @aethiopica.bsky.social Aethiopica: International Journal for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies. https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/aethiopica/index Based @HamburgUniversity, printed by @HarrassowitzVerlag
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