L.I.S.A. @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de L.I.S.A. Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Impressum: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/impressum
Fabian Unruh @fabianunruh.bsky.social Physicist working on Nuclear Verification and Disarmament | Doctoral Researcher at @prif.org | @cntrarmscontrol.org | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Elisabeth Waczek @erzsewa.bsky.social Philosophy MA | Science Communication | private account 
Daniel Mullis @daenumullis.bsky.social Demokratie, extreme Rechte, soziale Ungleichheit sowie Flucht & Migration | Dr. phil. | beruflich bei @proasyl.de - hier privat | er/he | 2024 Buch zur „Regression der Mitte“ | Foto: Peter Jülich
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.
Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures |
Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landscapes
Nikolai Brandes @nikolaibrandes.bsky.social Architectural historian at the Aarhus School of Architecture. Schools of architecture in Africa, East German architects abroad, Turkish construction companies in the Global South.
African Studies Library - Cambridge University @afrlib.bsky.social We support the research & teaching activities of the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge.
Open 9-5, Mon-Fri.
Find out more: linktr.ee/afrlib
Run by Jenni & Ben.
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
Michael Kevane @mkevane.com Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, eyes on the Horn of Africa. Migration, human rights, OSINT.
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zecharias-zelalem
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
Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social Parent. Gardener. Anti-fascist. Historian of Modern France, North Africa, Counterinsurgency, Migration. Trade unionist. Assoc. Prof. No Tyrants/No Kings.
Terrencepeterson.com
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776960/revolutionary-warfare
Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
Free Palestine @futbolprof.bsky.social Roman-American Historian | Fútbologist | Africanist || Learn. Love. Grow
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.com.
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
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
Sophia Dege-Müller @sophiademue.bsky.social Focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies, manuscripts and art, Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews), editorial team of @aethiopica.bsky.social , typo queen, working mom, sport enthusiast, food lover
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
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!
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Michelle Moyd @michmo.bsky.social Historian of Africa, soldiers, war. Mom, spouse, daughter. Author of *Violent Intermediaries*. Vet. Wish I had a dog. Wish I could just write what I want.
Mathilde von Bülow @muvonbulow.bsky.social Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
emma 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 @emmadavies.bsky.social … ✨💡
Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social Historian working on colonialism, post-colonial North-South relations, genocide and economic crises. Lecturer for international economic history at University College Cork.
Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma.
https://www.kim-todzi.de/
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
Nina Kleinöder @nkleinoeder.bsky.social Historian University of Bamberg | Economic and Social History | Labour and Education | Business History | Colonial History
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"
Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Lindsey Pruett @pruett.bsky.social Assistant professor of pol sci @LSU. State-building, policing, civ-mil, and colonialism, mostly in West Africa. www.lindseypruett.com
Steve Rosenzweig @scrosenzweig.bsky.social Political scientist studying political violence, ethnic politics, polarization, democratization and democratic erosion. Aspiring ski bum. Book: tinyurl.com/2z2r3rnw
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
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 |
Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social Human, Learner, Voyager, Citizen. Polisci research on the state, development, and conflict. Assistant Professor @ LSE Department of Government. Previously Oxford and ETH Zurich. http://carl.muller-crepon.com/
Alex Yeandle @alexyeandle.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Political Science, Aarhus University
www.alexyeandle.com
Erin Hern @erinhern.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @Syracuse, African Politics, political behavior, resource governance, global energy transition
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
Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social PhD, political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff.
I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking!
(she/her)
Kristina Pikovskaia @kpikovskaia.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (Uni of Edinburgh)
MPhil&DPhil (Uni of Oxford)
People-centred research on African informal economies
RT≠endorsement
Aidan Barlow @aidanbarlow.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bath. Researches the politics of digging things out of the ground.
Thalia Gerzso @thaliagerzso.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @uoypolitics.bsky.social
I study African politics, democracy, and political institutions (mainly courts and legislatures)
www.thaliagerzso.com
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social Political scientist • Author of Governing Truth bit.ly/governing-truth • Committed to human rights, transitional justice, and international law
zvobgo.com
Travis B. Curtice @travisbcurtice.bsky.social Climber. Assistant Prof Drexel University. Studying police, repression & conflict. Fmr Carter Center, USIP, & Dartmouth Dickey Center. PhD Emory Polisci. Views are my own.
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
ZimboGuide @zimboguide.bsky.social Archaeologist, Historian, Bibliophile. A happy sponsor of the literary arts & cultural tourism in 🇿🇼. Personal account so opinions are my own.
Dr. Marie Huber @mariehuber.bsky.social Researcher. Writer: History, Economics, Africa | co-founder @metoohistory.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.
Gesine Krüger @gesinekrueger.bsky.social Prof Geschichte UZH Zürich
Geschichte der Gegenwart
Right Livelihood Schweiz
Journal of African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal publishing essays in English, French and Portuguese on the economic history of Africa.
Send us your manuscript!
https://aeh.uwpress.org/
The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
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
•Gobernanza residual• https://bit.ly/488OkV7
•Residual Governance• http://bit.ly/41wDJzD
proud parent🏳️⚧️♾️🧠
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
Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social The oldest scholarly press in Ohio, specializing in African studies, Appalachian studies, regional guidebooks, and literary fiction. Learn more at ohioswallow.com
Wendy Williams @wmwilliams.bsky.social Researching @ AfricaCenter.org forced displacement & migration | environment & security | VEOs 
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.
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
Sarah Runcie @sarahruncie.bsky.social Historian of decolonization and public health in West Africa 
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
Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen @landaffairs.bsky.social Governance of natural resource investments; Political economy of energy transitions in Africa; Renewable energy; Oil, gas and land; Tanzania & Ghana. Working at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
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.
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 👩💻Ending childhood lead poisoning @ LEEP
📍London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social Journalist and researcher
Elective politics in Eastern Africa and African Feminisms. Plant 🪴 👩🏿
“My role was to do a story and avoid becoming one”- James Baldwin
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
Kathleen Sheldon @kesheldon52.bsky.social Independent scholar, historian of African women, Mozambique, and Lusophone Africa.
Editor at H-Luso-Africa, https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa
www.kathleensheldon.net
Camille Lefebvre @camillelefebvre.bsky.social Historienne
Directrice de recherche/Research professor CNRS-EHESS
Spécialiste du Sahara et du Sahel
19e-20e s.
PI ERC Langarchiv
https://langarchiv.hypotheses.org/
Damien Droney @ddroney.bsky.social Cultural & medical anthropologist working in postcolonial science studies.
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Udadisi @udadisi.bsky.social www.udadisi.com
@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).
Prince Guma @princeguma.bsky.social Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds 
Transcrire Antoine d'Abbadie @transcrireada.bsky.social Transcription collaborative, HTR, TEI, analyse des carnets de voyage d'Antoine d'Abbadie dans la Corne de l'Afrique (1839-48). Projet coordonné par Anaïs Wion (CNRS) et Vanessa Desclaux (BNF)
https://transcrire.huma-num.fr/scripto/13/item
Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
Emmanuel Valax @evalax.bsky.social PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views my own)
Bwesigye (aka Friday) @bwesigye.bsky.social Nyanja born and raised living in Los Angeles. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. Afro-nationalist.
Jon Schubert @jonschu.bsky.social Political & urban anthropology: infrastructures, extractives authoritarianism and climate crisis, esp. in #Angola and #Mozambique; find me @allegralab.bsky.social and at critical urbanisms @unibas D/F/E/P
Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
Jonah Wedekind @jowedekind.bsky.social Researcher, currently @abi-freiburg.bsky.social + freelance. The nature of the state and state–nature in #Ethiopia. Political ecology, land conflicts, agrarian change, resource frontiers, and transitional justice. Berlin based, Addis raised.
James Smith @sobukwescozia.bsky.social Prof in Parma. Interested in African science and innovation, sustainable transitions, global health, and helping young people do great things, all around the world.
Marielle Debos @debos.bsky.social Prof. of Political Science. University of Paris Nanterre @uparisnanterre.bsky.social - ISP
Writing on war, tech, gender, postcolonialism
Completing a book on biometrics in Africa
She/her
https://www.marielledebos.com/en/about/
Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social Tswana | sucked into a bagel | reluctant anthropologist-in-training | 🏳️🌈 Queer (he/him)
📍South Africa
Hansjörg Dilger @hdilger.bsky.social Social and Cultural Anthropologist @ FU Berlin, Director of Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies", Head of Research Area Medical Anthropology | Global Health, Co-speaker of DFG Network "Public Anthropology" & Co-PI @ MoRePPaR
Claudia Gastrow @cgastrow.bsky.social Assistant Professor. Interested in African cities, socialist Atlantic histories, architecture and urban financialization. Book: The Aesthetics of Belonging: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469682181/the-aesthetics-of-belonging/
@thokokaime.bsky.social @thokokaime.bsky.social 
Federico Tadei @federicotadei.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. Economic History | Development | Africa | Colonization | Trade | Inequality
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/federicotadei/home
Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social Research Fellow KCL | Voluntary Labour | Global Politics | Health | Kenya | Tanzania | Non-State Actors | Heat Pump Widow
George Kibala Bauer @gfkb.bsky.social Digital Development, Cities, Political Economy of Development in Africa, Worldmaking after Empire, Congolese Politics
Header Cred - Monsengo Shula
Claire Mercer @clairemercer.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography, LSE, UK. Research on urban peripheries, housing and social class. Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
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 🫶 🇺🇬.