Henrik Maihack @henrikmaihack.bsky.social Head of Secretariat, North-South-Commission | Book out @C.H.Beck | Ex FES Res. Rep. 🇰🇪🇸🇸🇷🇼🇧🇩 | PhD PolSci
Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social Architect • Asst Prof • History, Theory, & Politics of Architecture in Africa
Am I writing this book or is it writing me?
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AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social An international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, policy analysts, & public service providers.
Lux Magazine @readlux.bsky.social A socialist magazine of politics and culture. We want it all 👁️
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social Urban Affairs Review is a peer-reviewed journal of urban politics and policy. https://www.urbanaffairsreview.com/
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betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social Archaeologist (Mesopotamia, Cyprus, beer), author (In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia)
Global Voices @globalvoices.org The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
CUAA @cuaacriturbanth.bsky.social Critical Urban Anthropology Association. Section of the American Anthropological Association. A place for urban anthropologists and their allies and interlocutors. #CUAA
ZIAF Frankfurt @ziaf-frankfurt.bsky.social Centre for interdisciplinary African Studies @ Goethe University
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
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Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Daniele Toro @danieletoro.bsky.social research assistant · University of Passau · entangled history of industrial societies · fascist networking in interwar Europe
https://www.geku.uni-passau.de/neuere-und-neueste-geschichte/lehrstuhlteam/daniele-toro
orcid.org/0000-0002-2533-263X
Shahin Nazar @shahinnazar.bsky.social Researcher of the far right, media, conspiracies, race and gender. Also ecofascism.
PhD and open source investigations @ Utrecht University. Personal account. 🏳️🌈🏳️
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Stefan Schmid @weltlage.bsky.social Im Zweifel für die Komplexität | Journalist | Born at 358 ppm https://linktr.ee/weltlage
Elaine Sullivan @eesull.bsky.social Assistant Prof studying African art, especially Congo. Probably just going to follow along for now.
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
Philipp Hofmann @philipphofmann.bsky.social Historian | Religion, slavery, and landownership in early modern Angola | Postdoc at International Studies Group, University of the Free State
Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com Senior Lecturer @livuni. Conflict reporting, ethics, witnessing and the affective/emotional dimensions of war reporting. An ed @ Media, War & Conflict. British Academy Fellow. Cat dad.
Liz Thornberry @lizthornberry.bsky.social I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel
Christina Schwenkel @cschwenk.bsky.social
Vladimir Kulić @vladimirkulic.bsky.social
Łukasz Stanek @staneklukasz.bsky.social Architectural historian and urban scholar at the University of Michigan. Author of "Henri Lefebvre on Space" (2011) & "Architecture in Global Socialism" (2020).
www.lukaszstanek.net
U.S. Institute of Peace @usip.org The United States Institute of Peace is a premier peacebuilding organization. Congress founded USIP in 1984 as an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting peace by preventing, mitigating and resolving violent conflict abroad. www.usip.org
SMART Elections @smartelections.bsky.social We're a nonpartisan nonprofit advocating for fair, secure, accurate, & accessible elections that are publicly verifiable. We want the public to have full confidence in election results.
Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social Podcast on Urban Theory, Research & Activism
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@uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities is a research center at University of Stavanger, Norway.
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- Weekly book talks: https://newnatures.org/greenhouse
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social Anthropologist (ISCTE, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal)
Angola, Mozambique, Atlantic
Political activism, utopias, memory and heritage
Environmental problems.
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/
Journal of Global Security Studies @journalofgss.bsky.social A journal of the International Studies Association (ISA). Publishes cutting-edge research on global security and global aspects of debates in security studies.
Global Society @globalsociety.bsky.social Global Society is a journal of international studies published by Taylor & Francis. Editors: Rubrick Biegon, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Julia Simon, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, and Peter Marshall
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cgsj20/current
Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
Max Vogel @maxvogel.bsky.social Historian | Museums & Memorials | Political Education | NS, GDR and Colonial History | Berlin
Working for brandenburg-euthanasie-sbg.de
Current Project: paul-goesch.de
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Nana Osei-Opare @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Rice University
Shakirah Hudani @shakirahh.bsky.social urbanist: Africa, post-conflict, Global South, cities everywhere
Book: "Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the city in Post-genocide Rwanda"
Daniel Breslau @danielbreslau.bsky.social Economic sociologist at Virginia Tech STS interested in the politics and science of markets and how these baroque contraptions mediate energy transition.
Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social Urban geographer | he/him | views my own, repost ≠ endorsement
Financialization Research Lab @financialization.bsky.social A research unit based at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University (Ottawa)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social sound aficionado + heartbroken reader + lovesick bookmaker
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we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social Historian of eastern and southern Africa @uclhistory.bsky.social interested in memory, sovereignty, and decolonization.
Pedro Monaville @pedro-monaville.bsky.social Historian. African Studies. Congo.
Prof at McGill U: https://www.mcgill.ca/history/pedro-monaville
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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.
African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social Membership Association Enhancing the Exchange of Information about Africa.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social Our mission is to stimulate, strengthen, and advance anthropology by promoting the study of Africa, Africanist scholarship, and the professional interests of Africanist anthropologists both in and outside of Africa.
https://afaa.americananthro.org/
Meghan Healy-Clancy @mhealyclancy.bsky.social Flaneuse, raconteuse, migraineuse. Facebook empathy mom trying to expand my social media habits. Author of A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4814/). Massachusetts.
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
Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social Israeli. Author: The Wrong Kind of Jew. Son of Amazigh + Iraqi Jewish refugees. Founder The Tel Aviv Institute. Seen/Words: NY Times, LA Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, Sky & more.. 🏳️🌈🇮🇱🕊️
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Jennifer Hart @detroittoaccra.bsky.social Africanist by training; historian by trade; teacher, singer, cook by passion - talking up the new book (Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra), History at Virginia Tech, and Gen Ed at the AAC&U
Stephen Sparks @sjwsparks.bsky.social Professional historian (Univ of Johannesburg) writing about industry, energy, planning & everyday life under apartheid. Chess lover
Sebastián Ruiz-Cabrera @sebaprensa.bsky.social Professor: Africa, International media and Global South at University of Girona
CoFounder: wiriko.org
Coordinator Itinerant African Film Festival Catalunya: ficac.cat
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social Global historian working on sovereignty, nationalism & Sudanese political parties. Formerly British University in Egypt and @camhistory.bsky.social. Now Wenzhou Kean University. Author of @shiftingsovs.bsky.social.
Nicholas Rush Smith @nickrushsmith.bsky.social Reader in Politics and IR at @soasuni.bsky.social. Researcher @UJoburg. Co-Editor-in-Chief @comppol.bsky.social. Studies crime, police, vigilantism, ethnographic, interpretive, qual methods, 🇿🇦.
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative. slaveryarchive.com
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Patchwork Ethnography @patchworkethno.bsky.social Patchwork Ethnography is a collaborative research project by Gökçe Günel and Chika Watanabe.
www.patchworkethnography.com
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.
The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social Independent, non-partisan coverage of China in Africa & the Global South: www.chinaglobalsouth.com
FR: https://projetafriquechine.com/
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Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
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Marie Toulemonde @marietlmd.bsky.social Datajournaliste @jeuneafrique.com
Yemisi Adegoke @briticoyemo.bsky.social Twitter immigrant.
Senior Reporter at BBC News.
Investigations, features and podcasts.
Reality TV afficando
Mohammed Ademo @opride.bsky.social Journalist and researcher interested in the culture of social movements.
Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social Journalist and commentator. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
Eshèté Bekele @eshete.bsky.social Ethiopian Journalist,
Kennedy Wandera @kennedywandera.bsky.social
International Broadcaster. Board Chair, The Foreign Press Association, Africa.
Postgraduate, University of Leeds, UK🇬🇧
https://www.voanews.com/author/kennedy-wandera/jtjvt
Maurice Oniango @moniango.bsky.social Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker| Published on National Geographic, The Guardian, NowThis, Africa Uncensored, The Continent, Rest of World & others | Columbia Journalism School alum | Journalism Fellow ‘22 Reuters Institute | 📍NY/NBO
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social Sharing news from Northern #Kenya and neighbouring areas. Particular interests are #climate change, #environment, conservation and security & #conflict triggers. https://linktr.ee/rememberthegoat
Tom Mukhwana @tommukhwana.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Africa Uncensored. Part time coach potato.
Nairobi, Kenya.
Samira Sawlani @samirasawlani.bsky.social Journalist. Writer. (Bylines- AJE, NYT, Vice).
East Africa with an eye on the rest of the African Continent.
I lift weights.
Love books. Based in London.
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
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Nation Africa @nation-africa.bsky.social
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Marvin Charles @marvincharles.bsky.social Cape Town-based news reporter at News24 | ✉️Story+tip or secret burning to tell someone? marvin.charles@24.com
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Jesse Harber @harber.co.za Transport planner in South Africa. Infrastructure, public transport, walking and cycling, better streets for better cities. Focused on the big questions, like “why are you building that?”. Skeets in my personal capacity.
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Guy Taylor @guytaylor.bsky.social UNICEF Advocacy, Comms & Partnerships lead in Mozambique.
Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social Queer. African. Feminist.
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Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer.bsky.social Writer, researcher on organised crime. Previously at Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, TRAFFIC and Africa Check. Author of 'Killing for Profit’. Views my own.