Now the discussion of Panel 4 “Freedom, Refuge and African Resistance in the Atlantic World” at @ASAUK_News stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives and the Power of Things: Anenechukwu Amoke, José Lingna Nafafé, Megane Coulon and Erika Meleke Delgado

Now on Panel 4 “Freedom, Refuge and African Resistance in the Atlantic World” at @ASAUK_News stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives and the Power of Things, José Lingna Nafafé presenting on Prince Lourenço Mendonça and the Black Abolitionists’ Case

Now on Panel 4 “Freedom, Refuge and African Resistance in the Atlantic World” at @ASAUK_News stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives and the Power of Things, with Erika Melek Delgado and Megan Coulon on the database Freedom Narratives

Now on Panel 3 “Colonial Archives: Print snd Visual Records of @ASAUK_News stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives and the Power of Things, Alexandra Flagg presenting “Moving Maqdala: Ethiopian Manuscripts in Colonial Bombay”

Now at the biannual @ASAUK_News meeting, stream "Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things," Peggy Brunache, University of Glasgow, presenting "Black Indigenous Materiality and Contested Land imaginaries in 18th-Century St. Vincent"

OPEN ACCESS: The reviews of Toby Green's The Heretic of Cacheu from our last @ASANewsOnline author meets critic are now published at @ASRJournal, check Mariana P. Candido's review here www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-st...Mostrar mais

Now Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, Afrodeities Institute and UCL, “Memorabilia and Epistemic Repair: Restitution, Material Memory, and African Civilisational Knowledge" in the @ASAUK_News stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things

Now second paper of the first panel of the @ASAUK_News conference stream Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things with Cherry Leonardo and Isaac Hillary with the paper “Material Afterlives of Elephants: Ivory Objects from South Sudan in UK Museums

Congratulations to dear historian Toby Green whose The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa (@UChicagoPress 2025) is a finalist for the @ASANewsOnline book prize!

New great book announcement: Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta: A Yorùbá Woman in Queen Victoria’s Court (University of Toronto Press, 2026) by Henry B. Lovejoy #slaveryarchive

Coming soon! Our special issue "Africa and Capitalism" of @AfricanEconHist will be out this Fall 2026, in about 10 weeks from now. First round of proofs reviewed.

Woke up with the nice news that my @cambUP_History book The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (2024) is one a joint runner-up of the @ASAUK_News Book Prize. Congratulations to winner Tosin Gbogi and co runner-up Nana Osei Quarshie!

NEW OPEN ACCESS: Le métier de jeune chercheur en Afrique francophone (Actes du colloque international organisé par l’Université de Goma, Gisenyi, du 10 au 11 déc 2025) co-dirigé par L. Njuh, J. Yamoneka, A. Ntamusige, I. Razafindrakoto et C. Kiamba www.gdn.int/sites/default/files/Le%20me%CC...Mostrar mais

Today we enjoyed the labyrinth of @HowardU Founders Library stacks and the great feeling of touching and smelling African history books.

"À Ouidah, chaque grain de sel raconte une histoire de lutte et de savoir-faire ancestral. Aujourd’hui, cette tradition se réinvente pour préserver les mangroves tout en faisant vivre les communautés." youtu.be/CKtClSQjHNs

Natureza morta.

1/6 African Studies UK is next week. Come attend our panels "Global Africa: Lives, Afterlives, and the Power of Things" convened by me and Mariana Candido. Panel 1 Restitution, Repair and the Afterlives of Colonial Objects asauk.net/conferences/conference-schedule-...

The prickly issue of financial compensation for slavery #slaveryarchive www.24newshd.tv/31-Aug-2026/prickly-issue-...

I am supposed to be live at @BBCNewshour 20h GMT (3:00 PM EST) talking about the @UN guidance issued today on reparations for the Atlantic slave trade #slaveryarchive www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w1730bn5xrprrhp

Europeans kept cheating Dahomeans until the last hour. Dahomean kings never backed off.

Un instrument de musique d'un "Africain libéré" : objet politique anti-esclavagiste? Sur la côte de Gambie, l'abolitionniste Victor Schœlcher achète un lamellophone ou sanza en 1847-48. Bel article par Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry objetspol.inha.fr/s/objetspol/item/1149 #slaveryarchiveMostrar mais

A Permanent Academic Job at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Wits politics. Open thematic orientation. lnkd.in/dypYTS9h Closing date: 21 September 2026

This is the "high quality food" that unelected RFK Brainworm Jr claims that US soldiers are eating under his rule.

Towards an Archaeology of African Presence in Bahrain (7th–20th Century AD): Pottery, toponyms, and historical contexts by Awet Araya www.barpublishing.com/book/towards-an-arch...

Wheel.

Amerika.

Bike ride flowers: green, blue, and pink.

Frederick Douglass Hall at @HowardU

Gaani, Bariba equestrian festival starting tomorrow in Nikki, Republic of Benin. Via @benintvsrtb

Magnificent representation of Sakpata .

Bike ride’s red cardinal. 🐦‍🔥

Bike ride’s stream.

Sunday bike ride’s roses.

Founders Library under threatening skies.

Frederick Douglass Hall at @HowardU still beautiful

Historian Chris Evans 's new book coming out soon: Slavery's Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation #slaveryarchive

Elizabeth Catlett 1915-2012. Students Aspire, 1977. At @HowardU

First week of class ❤️ @HowardU

Washington DC. Na boca do lobo.

Forgerons ❤️ à Zinder. Niger. ca. 1908-1909

Marché à Porto-Novo, ca. 1908-1909.

Men, men, stay! Let the men remain! Let them cultivate the maize and make the palm trees grow… We, we march to war, we march, our swords held forward!

Time to revisit historian's Magda Teter's book Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism (@PrincetonUPress 2023)

Portrait of a black boy, 1645, etching. Printmaker: Wenceslaus Hollar, Antwerp.

Gorgeous portrait of a man with pearl earrings, fabulous turban, with feathers, and impressive armor. 1643 – 1647. Again Dutch.

Tiny portrait of an African woman with pearl earrings. Oil on copper. 1624 – 1670. Dutch.

Stunning engraving. Black Woman with Pearl Earring and Necklace, painted no later than 1664, before Vermeer's The Girl with the Pearl Earring painted around 1665. Also Dutch, by the Younger Cornelis Van Dalen.

Office’s girassóis.

While you were sleeping. Northwestern University is shutting down is 80-year-old program of African Studies as a research center. African students and students of African History come to @HowardU thepurplewire.beehiiv.com/p/scoop-northwes...Mostrar mais

Historian @TLeFlouria, alumna of my @HowarU Department of History is launching her new book Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block, tomorrow August 17, 7:00 PM at @PoliticsProse