Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Brian Ikaika Klein @brianiklein.bsky.social Asst Prof @UMich. Political ecologist & critical human geographer. Extraction, resource politics, artisanal mining, conservation, development, Africa, Madagascar. @ESPM_Berkeley PhD. ND ☘️ grad. RPCV. Hawai'i born and raised.
@koihope.bsky.social @koihope.bsky.social 
Eric Ford @ericfordvt.bsky.social In Vermont, producer/host of Made Here at Vermont Public
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Chris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social Law professor at W&L teaching IP, property, election law and remedies. Husband of @elyons822. Childhood cancer dad.🎗️Pro-public education. All opinions my own.
Elle Gee @elle-arr-gee.bsky.social Intersectional feminist.
Misplaced Vermonter.
Believer in: community care, restorative justice, and magic.
Lover of: novels, good coffee, muppets, and dogs.
Hannah Holtzman @hannahholtzman.bsky.social Film and Media Studies @ Sophia University (Tokyo)
Author: Through a Nuclear Lens (2024): https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Through-a-Nuclear-Lens
film, environment, nuclear culture, Franco-Japanese exchange
Priya Lal @priyalalista.bsky.social Historian of Africa and the world
Alex Wagner Tonight @wagnertonight.msnbc.com Tuesday through Friday at 9pmET on MSNBC
Find clips at MSNBC.com/Alex
Anna Schmauder @annateesch.bsky.social #Sahel Researcher & analyst working on armed groups + hybrid orders in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger - currently adviser at http://stabilisation-platform.de/en / Non-Resident Fellow GPPi https://gppi.net/team/anna-schmauder/ thru-hiker 22/23
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
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/
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Séverine Awenengo Dalberto @sevead.bsky.social Historienne, CNRS, Institut des mondes africains, corédac chef de la revue Politique africaine. 
Sahel Research Group @ufsahelresearch.bsky.social The Sahel Research Group at the University of Florida is no longer active on Bluesky. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook, or visit our website https://sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu/
Laurent Duarte @laurentduarte.bsky.social Consultant indépendant et défenseur des droits humains.
Comité édito : afriquexxi.info
Secrétaire général d’Ensemble contre la peine de mort
Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social Researcher.
Polish voice on terror, conflicts, crime networks, Islamic State, al-Qaeda.
Now, also following Islamic State's plans in Africa. Politics in the Sahel.
Writing for hire. DM.
@saladinaldronni on X/Twitter
https://ko-fi.com/saladinaldronni
Franklin Nossiter @franklinnoss.bsky.social Sahel Researcher @ International Crisis Group
Dakar, Senegal
Florian Weigand @weigand.bsky.social Co-Director, Centre on Armed Groups I Research Associate, LSE & IHEID I ✏️📚: Waiting for Dignity (http://bit.ly/3DY2QhB) I Conflict & Transnational Crime I Handbook of Smuggling
Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjones.bsky.social I write on Kosovo + Balkans; run women’s rugby league Revolution Rugby in 🇽🇰https://linktr.ee/bronwynjones1
@photosofthepast.bsky.social @photosofthepast.bsky.social Sharing history one photo at a time 📸 | Daily snapshots of iconic moments from the past, with stories that shaped the world 🌍 | #HistoryInPictures
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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Dr Barnaby Joseph Dye @barnabyjdye.bsky.social Fellow, German Council of Foreign Relations @dgap.org;
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) King's College, London
Interests: Political Economy, India's International Relations; Politics in Africa, India-Africa, Infrastructure, Electricity, Ideology, Dams
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Lorelle Semley @professorsemley.bsky.social Global African Diaspora Historian- C Christine Haynes @christinehaynes.bsky.social
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Abdourahman Waberi Auteur @abdourahmanwaberi.bsky.social Writer| Professor of French, French/Francophone Studies & Creative Writing GWU, Washington DC
Écrivain océanien& in/terre dépendant
DC & d'ailleurs
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd3NNTjvPHZ0v36ACnpQ26w
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR | 
Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren.bsky.social Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social Literary historian. Poet’s daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye @satoumbodj.bsky.social Anthropologist, Mali, Sénégal, France. Popular culture, languages, media esp. radio.
Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social Historian
🔗 thiam.me
Hilary Jones @hilaryjjones.bsky.social Historian, traveller, sister, friend, author The Metis of Senegal, professor, editor RSHADS https://msupress.org/
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative. slaveryarchive.com
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social Historian (Avengers of the New World/ The Banjo/ The Language of the Game/ Freedom Roots) & Musician (Traversées)
Caitlin Barker @caitlinbarker.bsky.social Historian of Africa, China, and the Cold War | Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College | Book review editor, H-Africa
Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social Author of Analysing Environmental Discourse (2026) and White Belongings (2022). Asst Prof of African Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State. Organiser @ PSFA
Rachid Benharrousse @benharrousse.bsky.social Research Fellow @AUC | Migration, neoliberalism, infrastructure, necropolitics, culture, and everything lost in-between.
‘Damola Adediji @damolaadediji.bsky.social Ph.D.ing @uottawa - copyright, competition/antitrust law and policy, data privacy, access to text-based & digital educational materials published in Indigenous African languages! DAAD Scholar(2015-2016), ex Max Planck(MIPLC)! I play a lot!
Sarah Milburn @centrafreak.bsky.social Central Africa Country Specialist, Amnesty International USA (views mine).
#humanrights #sahel #centrafrique #tchad #chad #droitshumains #drc #congo #car #rwanda #burundi
PhD Rutgers/politics,EdM Harvard,BA Yale/philosophy Neurodivergent TrekkieJediHobbit
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Part of the ITHAKA nonprofit family.
More about us: https://about.jstor.org/
The Citing Slavery Project @citingslavery.bsky.social The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of slave cases and the modern cases that continue to cite them as precedent. 
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
Liesl Louw-Vaudran @lieslvaudran.bsky.social Senior Advisor, African Union @crisisgroup.org
Olivier Monnier @olivmon.bsky.social French Editor @crisisgroup.org. Ex-West Africa reporter for Bloomberg. Breizh born & raised. 🏳️🌈
Simon Schlegel @simonschlegel.bsky.social East Europe buff, recovering anthropologist, Ukraine Program Director @libmod.de Zentrum Liberale Moderne Berlin, interested in small places and big issues.
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
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Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Democracy Now! @democracynow.org Independent, daily global news hour.
Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate
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History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Laurence Deschamps-Laporte @ldlmontreal.bsky.social Prof @sciencepo-UdeM.bsky.social
Directrice scientifique @cerium-udem.bsky.social
Réseau de recherche canadien Femmes, Paix & Sécurité
Équipe de recherche sur la Politisation du religieux en Afrique & au Moyen-Orient (PRAM)
M-O, politique étrangère
Martha Tierney @marthatierney.bsky.social mother, lawyer, organizer, democracy activist
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social SCOTUS podcast (Crooked Media)
Hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, & Kate Shaw
Produced by Melody Rowell
Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social Publisher of The Bulwark. Host of the Focus Group Podcast. Co-host, The Next Level. Become a subscriber: http://TheBulwark.com/join
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com My new book Liar’s Kingdom can be ordered here: https://linktr.ee/LiarsKingdomBook; NYU Law; MSNOW legal analyst & podcast cohost "Main Justice »;
Substack "Behind The Headlines" https://weissmann.substack.com
Offering legal analysis & opinion
Christina Peters @crystallising.bsky.social west africa correspondent @dpa / prvsly foreign politics editor / storytelling & international relations nerd / de & en
Jonathan C @jgc07.bsky.social TTRPG, Relationship Counselor, Father, Healer, Futuristic
Nicolás Gómez Baeza @nigomezbaeza.bsky.social Doctor en Historia por la University of Warwick. Labour historian. Historia del trabajo y el capitalismo. De la Patagonia.
Dave Glovsky @dglovsky.bsky.social African historian, Harvard History and AAAS. Here for the vibes (I hope)
Moses Khisa @moseskhisa.bsky.social I teach political science, and write a weekly (Saturday) column for Daily Monitor newspaper in Kampala, Uganda.
Hilde Bras @hildebras.bsky.social Chair of Economic & Social History | Historical demography | Histories of medicine, health, and healing | Netherlands | Suriname | sub-Saharan Africa
University of Groningen
MhcJock11 @mhcjock11.bsky.social Family. Country. Red Sox. Education.
In that order
Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social historian, prof, author: 'Minimal Humanity' (London 2020) ; 'Les humanités humanitaires' (Paris 2023). African history, global history, humanitarian aid. Views are my own. https://joelglasman.com
Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
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/
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/
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
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
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
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.
James Le Sueur @jameslesueur.bsky.social 🎥 Historian. Filmmaker. Professor.
@ https://www.foxhollowfilms.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10234302
Award-winning “The Art of Dissent” Streaming Everywhere.
https://www.theartofdissentfilm.com
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