Aristophon @aristophon.bsky.social Socialist, here for the cats, working towards "fully automated, luxury gay space communism."
"Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me -- then show me the place where he was hanged!"
-- The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
@dpbrunberg.bsky.social @dpbrunberg.bsky.social አልቦ : ዕለት : ዘያሴስለኪ : እም : ሕላዌ : ዘመን ::
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@gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social 
Anthropology.net @anthropology.net https://anthropology.net https://sciences.social/@anthropology
#anthropology #archaeology #humanevolution #paleoanthropology #culture
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
History in Africa @historyinafrica.bsky.social Scholarly journal of the @asanewsonline.bsky.social publishing innovative research and critical commentaries on African & Diasporic history sources, methods, and debates.
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social The World’s Opinion Page, featuring exclusive commentaries by scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and civic activists.
https://events.project-syndicate.org/event/democracy-summit
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Robbie Aitken @rjmauk.bsky.social Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam. Working on the Black experience during the Nazi period. Long suffering follower of terrible sports teams.
shu.academia.edu/RobbieAitken 
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social 🏝️ isleño. canary islander. international affairs. commons. post/de/anti-colonial. anti-racism. Free Palestine. 🗣️ views are strictly mine.
✍️ Español / English / Français / Português
John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social Unbeliever (political & religious), Wales rugby, #c4news, porridge, tea, #MEcfs
'Obvious but wrong'
Also JTJ on the other place
https://johnthejack.com
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social Ottoman cultural history - IMS/FORTH, Greece
GHOST-Geographies and histories of the Ottoman supernatural tradition
https://forth.academia.edu/MarinosSariyannis
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
- K Joseph King @king-rome.bsky.social Retired Senior Director at ICCROM in Rome. Currently enjoying the city of Rome and the Umbrian countryside.
#DankeKloppo @infosecafrica.bsky.social #RecoveringTechnologyEnthusiast™️| Student of History
Soma @somasacademy.bsky.social Soma (Any/All).
History Educator.
BA in History and Anthropology, MA in Precolonial West African History.
I'll be able to call myself a Youtuber if I ever develop a reliable upload schedule
(Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SomasAcademy)
Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social Ungrateful Migrant | Geographer | UoGlasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, fugitivity, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own
Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke 2026)
Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Jonathan Parkes Allen @jparkesallen.bsky.social historian of the Islamicate with @openiti.bsky.social; community food forest/garden organizer with @foodforestchatt.bsky.social. ☦ Christian, father, deep time delver. 🏴 anarcho-agrarian 🌻 upholder of Gustav Landauer thought 🌹
Hilde Gunnink @hildegunnink.bsky.social Linguist, focusing on African languages. FWO postdoctoral researcher @UGent || Linguistics teacher @Leiden
[ˈhɪlˠdə ˈχønɪŋk]
Estaleto @estaleto.bsky.social Politics, books, music. Never come across a rabbit hole not worth going down.
"Don't listen to what they say. Go see."
🇿🇦
At various stages home was Syria, Lebanon, India, Yemen, Libya and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Free Palestine.
Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social World literature, music and art. Will give weekly recommendations here. Melbourne. Occasionally posts my art #booksky
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
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/
Ben Radley @radleyben.bsky.social Associate Professor in International Development at Bath | Editor for Review of African Political Economy (roape.net) | Mining, Energy & Labour | Central Africa & Pacific Islands | www.benradley.com
@abovoadmala.bsky.social @abovoadmala.bsky.social Previously: monitoring and evaluation for international democracy promotion Now: civil engineering
Thomas Sorlie @thomassorlie.bsky.social Writing • Public Speaking • Consulting
Africa • Middle East • Islam
Dept. of Def, al-Hurra TV, VOA, Today's Zaman
Former Student of Imam at Darrus Salam, ATL, GA
MA in Islamic Studies - UGA
Part-time film snob.🎥🎬
Former IATSE Focus Puller.
Wisconsin, USA
Interlace knots @interlaceknots.bsky.social KNOTWORK IS A THING! sole focus: interlace under-over weave patterns across eons, origins, styles, methods, media, function, context, & meaning-making.. endless creativity, sometimes theology cosmology text commentary connection intention - Brian Dench
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com The first word in business news.
Newsletters: http://bloom.bg/newsletters
Podcasts: http://bloom.bg/podcasts
The Big Take podcast: http://trib.al/jtoXfuT
Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order. 
Rhys Davies @rcdavies.bsky.social Common culture and community. Believer in manufacturing & interested in productivity. Trade should be balanced & energy should be renewable.
Edward P. Butler, PhD @epbutler.bsky.social Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
I Observe @iobserve.bsky.social Twitter was great, but so was Gawker: this too shall pass.
Not buying, not selling: here for the news and views.
Cittidano della Republica di Londra. European.
Posted photos are my own.
Caroline Robion-Brunner @carosimonette.bsky.social #Archéologie, spécialiste de la #paléométallurgie en #Afrique, Directrice de recherche #CNRS, HDR,
@CFEE_addis / @umr5608_traces
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/
Ben Bellows @benbellows.bsky.social Cofounder & CBO, Nivi Inc
A Michigan farm kid a long time ago. Husband, dad, researcher, neighbor, founder.
pubs: orcid.org/0000-0001-9205-6623
#UMich #Econ #PeaceCorps #Ecuador 🇪🇨 #CDC #UCBerkeley #Epi #PopCouncil #Kenya 🇰🇪 #Zambia 🇿🇲 #digitalhealth #AI
Soila Kenya @soila.bsky.social 🇰🇪 🇳🇬, africanist, womanist, award-winning data journo & pop-culturist @coldtakegeeks.bsky.social
MA 🎓 @charlesuni.cuni.cz @au.dk @dmjx.bsky.social
Re-imagining Africa @africansffhype.bsky.social
Check out my Feeds and Lists tabs ↓↓↓
www.soilakenya.com
Thabani Mutambasere @thabanisere.bsky.social Lecturer: African Studies and International Development @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | International Development | Migration | African Diaspora |
Book: ‘Horizontal Development’ available here: https://bristol-press.co.uk/horizontal-development
Michiel de Haas @michieldehaas.bsky.social Assistant Prof WUR. (African) economic history: migration, inequality, agricultural development. NWO Veni project: East Africa & the Great Depression
Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social Green Party member of the UK House of Lords. Party leader 2012-2016.
There are enough resources on this planet to look after people and nature, if we share fairly.
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
African and Black Diaspora Journal @abdjournal.bsky.social Publishing leading research on the global lived experiences of people of #African descent that is theoretically rich, historically informed, and empirically grounded | Editor in Chief: Dr H. Sharif Williams | Published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social |
Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork.bsky.social Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
☭ Tula samovar enthusiast 🇷🇺🪆🐻☢️🚎🌲🌲🌲🥶❄️🌨️ @cccp.bsky.social Distortion fetishist. Everything is political. Interests include media, power, spectacle, electronics, plants (hardiness zone 6, lvl 3 ecoregion 59: Northeastern Coastal Zone) #NoNATO #NoIsrael #NoTERFs #LandBack
Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social Typer of the keys.
Also: https://vt.academia.edu/DanielYacob , https://typo.social/@ethiopic , https://x.com/ethiopic
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🏳️⚧️♾️🧠
Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social Pan-African feminist writer. media specialist.
Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social
Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social
Columnist @newint.bsky.social
Africa Elects @africaelects.bsky.social Poll aggregation and election analysis in Africa.
Partner of America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania Elects.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Bámiṣé 🏳 🌻 @bamise.bsky.social quality African history
https://www.youtube.com/c/Bamise
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.
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Ananke Group @anankegroup.bsky.social Conflicts - Tech - Society - Africa - Middle East - Europe
Casus Belli @casusbelli.bsky.social Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
David F.K. Mpanga @dfkm1970.bsky.social Native. Son. Brother. Husband. Father. Friend. Lawyer. Anti-clockwise thinker.
Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com Storyteller.
📚 @hararereview.com
linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks
#Afrisky #Zimsky
💜 #Obsidianmd and 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe feed links in pinned thread.
The Continent @thecontinent.org The Continent is Africa's most widely read newspaper. Get the most recent edition delivered for free on:
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Donate: http://bit.ly/3IYcp6X
Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social Ancient Historian | Senior Manager @NCACE | Co-founder @ClassicsinComm @UniofOxford |Trustee @TheRomanSoc @AoD
Agent:www.hkmanagement.co.uk
Website: https://www.drmaimusie.com
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13
Tatenda Mashanda @samaita.bsky.social Ph.D. Rhetoric & Political Culture, @UofMaryland, SADC Geopolitics, African Rhetoric, Foreign Policy.@WakeForest, @WaterfordUWCSA alumnus.@ChelseaFC fan,🦓 🇿🇼
Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social Woke Aristotelian
Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social Political economist and attempts at internationalism. Prof of International Relations and Political Economy at Bielefeld University
Udadisi @udadisi.bsky.social www.udadisi.com
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/
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
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
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com
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.
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"
Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma.
https://www.kim-todzi.de/
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
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
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
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
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.
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
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
Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social 2 hypooneiric 2 curiolatrous
Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives.
Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Helen Averley @helenaverley.bsky.social Marura of Social & Family history, Illustrator, Book designer, Producer Circus & Events, UK, Kenya #DearTaita ps too many projects on the go - so I’m not going to actually do a PhD!
Aditi @aditidixit.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Sydney Industrialization, Divergence, Indian Ocean Trade, and Colonialism
Mwenya S. Chikwa - Future Ancient 🇿🇲 @prisoner187.bsky.social Zambian. Some times writer, all times reader. Impractical dreamer on the eternal journey. Living through apocalypse while learning to smile.
Work in Omenana magazine, Ubwali Literary Magazine & WTBAP?
My short stories: https://linktr.ee/Mwenya_S_Chikwa
🇺🇬 TMS RUGE 🇺🇦 @tmsruge.bsky.social Founder/CEO: @RT_farms; Creator: @qwezibeauty; Cofounder: @hivecolab; Educated (sometimes) Angry African 😜
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
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.
Christopher M. Meissner @chris-meissner.bsky.social Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis. Globalization since 1800, financial crises since 1800, other Cliometric-type research
https://sites.google.com/site/chrismmeissner/home
Christoph N. Vogel @ethuin.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, scholar and investigator. Hiphop and cooking aficionado. Kujenga amani lazima kuelewa vita.