Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Next week at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Dr Gideon Danja, "Music, memory and religious violence in Northern Nigeria" AfricanJihad #Africa #Nigeria #violence #music #peace #memory 021
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Africa Day in Belfast Next Tuesday 26 May at 4pm -- all Welcome 023
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 18/04/2026This Monday 20 April at Noon at QUB @qubhistory.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social #Angola #Africa #Governance #Authoritarianism #rural Afroluso Talk by @bradsafarik.bsky.social 012
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudYvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It's happening tomorrow and it will be streamed! Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3387243622…teams.microsoft.comJoin conversation 154
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 12/04/2026** Mozambique ** The national hero Josina Machel (née Muthemba) will be attributed an Honoris Causa next 14 April 2026 at the Save University #Mozambique #hero #women #honoriscausa 000
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Next Wednsday 15 April 2026 Conference by Prof. Zachariah Mampilly (CUNY) on "Rebel taxation" at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social #rebel #conflict AfricanJihad Afripolsky Conflictsky 021
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Pope Leo XIV goes to Cameroon next month, the 4th time a Roman #Pontiff visits the central African country. This put #Cameroon as one of the African countries most visited by #Popes. Why? David Tonghou Ngong talks of Catholic #neocolonialism.... Read it here: africasacountry.com/2026/03/pilg...africasacountry.comPilgrimage to powerFrom John Paul II to Benedict XVI, papal visits to Cameroon have often come when Paul Biya’s government faced political turmoil. 000
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Psss -- about #Africa spefically: "Seventy-five institutions hold 11,856 items of remains recorded as originating from Africa. Of these, 6,223 (52%) are held in the University of Cambridge’s Duckworth Laboratory." 010
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Pss -- "There are also high numbers of UK excavated remains held by Armagh city, Banbridge and Craigavon borough council in Northern Ireland (6,400 items, representing only 10 individuals)"... 110
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Ps -- from the title to the footnote: about half of the all items identified are in fact... from UK archaeological excavations !?! 110
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026To conclude the dossier, The Guardian gives us a tool "Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where?" --> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comWhich human remains are held in UK museums – and where?Institutions including the Natural History Museum and Cambridge University hold more than 263,000 human remains, Guardian investigation finds 111
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026"Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls" --> www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comDescendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skullsRelatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s 111
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026"Of the 28,914 items of human remains known to originate from outside Europe, 11,856 were identified as coming from Africa, 9,550 from Asia, 3,252 from Oceania, 2,276 from North America, and 1,980 from South America". 101
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Fruit of a campaign to return human remains to Africa and an FOI by @theguardian.com which uncovers "260,000 items of remains, often [held] in sacrilegious ways" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.comVast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and expertsExclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways 121
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Very generous review of my book in the Portugues journal "Analise Social" by Dr Sandra Araujo. Here: revistas.rcaap.pt/analisesocial/. Many thanks to the author who published the wonderful "Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74" by Bloomsbury 010
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudCorinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com · 25/02/2026Check out our new project with @yguichaoua.bsky.social @emorier.bsky.social and @vincentfoucher.bsky.social ! Cc @polscileiden.bsky.social 074
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudRFI Português @pt.rfi.fr · 23/01/2026A semana em que a população de Moçambique enfrentou intempéries e cheiasrfi.frA semana em que a população de Moçambique enfrentou intempéries e cheiasAbrimos o recapitulativo desta semana em África com Moçambique com as intempéries que provocaram mortíferas cheias essencialmente no sul do país. De acordo com o Instituto Nacional de Gestão e Redução do Risco de Desastres, para além de mais de uma dezena de mortos só nestes últimos dias e mais de 700 mil pessoas afectadas, o balanço muito provisório da época chuvosa é de pelo menos 123 mortos desde Outubro. 011
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Tomorrow President Chapo #Mozambique launches his auto-biography in Maputo 020
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026CONCLUSION? Aside the issue of the reliability of "data", trade between Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates has only increased threefold since 2018 🫤 000
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Goind to the source (the United Nations Comtrade database), one finds that Mozambique exported $179 mio to UAE in in 2024 and that the data for UAE import from MZ is not available 100
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026The latter graph is from TRADING ECONOMICS which doesn't correspond to the former data -- $142 mio export vs $670 mio. To make it worse, Trading Economics says in one page that MZ exported to UAE $179.51 mio and in another page that UAE Imported $1.01 Billion from from MZ... 110
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026This is the summary of Mozambique's export to the UAE up to 2024. 78% of the export in 2024 was "Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products" 100
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Here is a summary of economic relations in $ (2023) h/t Observatory of Economic Complexity 110
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Pdt Chapo of #Mozambique is visiting the United Arab Emirates. Officially to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, but in effect also to woo investors & foster inter-state relations. The UEA only opened diplomatic representation in Mz in 2015. Since 2018 economic exchanges have increased sixfold 143
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 13/01/2026** Mozambique ** Important Seminar online this Thursday about the #insurgency in #Mozambique, with @swahilistreet.bsky.social, Prof Emilio Zeca and Dr Tomas Queface. Register and connect here: acleddata.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?... 022
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 30/12/2025People in need in northern #Mozambique ----------------------------------------- #conflict #insurgency #Africa #ISIS AfricanJihad From "Humanitarian Programme Cycle 2026", issues on 29 December 2025 011
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Do not forget... #racism #extremism #art www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...lemonde.frBrigitte Bardot, trente ans de sympathie pour l’extrême droiteCinq fois condamnée pour des propos racistes, l’actrice, dont sa fondation a annoncé la mort dimanche 28 décembre, fut une compagne de route du clan lepéniste, la seule vedette à assumer ses idées d’e... 022
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The #Vatican just created the diocese of Caia in #Mozambique The latest diocese in the place of oldest Catholic presence in the country (C15th). Quite a symbol. The new Bishop is Comboni Dom António Manuel Bogaio Constantino 🔥🔥 ⛪⛪ #catholicism #church #Beira AfroLuso 100
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Dr Feliciano Mata, director do Centro de Investigação e Estudos Económicos e Sociais de Cabo Delgado (CIEES) faleceu em Pemba #Mocambique dia 13.12.2025. Paz a sua alma 🙏 010
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes... #Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology 091
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025My latest contribution about the conflict in northern #Mozambique AfricanJihad AfroLuso #Africa #jihad www.hoover.org/research/rel...hoover.orgA religious war? Jihadist attacks on Christians in MozambiqueChristians are being killed in northern Mozambique. A jihadi insurgency that began in 2017 conducts regular attacks against the state and its population. It has already killed thousands of Mozambicans... 021
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudPeter Bofin-Kilusungu @swahilistreet.bsky.social · 10/12/2025A religious war? Jihadist attacks on Christians in Mozambique - @emorier.bsky.social sets out clearly why talk of religious war is wrongheaded and dangerous www.hoover.org/research/rel...hoover.orgA religious war? Jihadist attacks on Christians in MozambiqueChristians are being killed in northern Mozambique. A jihadi insurgency that began in 2017 conducts regular attacks against the state and its population. It has already killed thousands of Mozambicans... 074
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Important report on the importance of dialogue for the Cabo Delgado insurgency #Mozambique #Africa #jihad #peace AfricanJihad AfroLuso. Here: issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/page... 011
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 12/11/2025** NEW ** My book the _War Within_, edited with Michel Cahen and Domingos do Rosario, has just come out in paperback. Details here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-war... AfroLuso #Mozambique #civilwar #armedconflict #history #Africa 031
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudConor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Another fascinating @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar coming up later TODAY by Dr Lloyd Maphosa! Chaired by the great @emorier.bsky.social. Drinks and snacks provided. All welcome! More information and the sign up for attending online in the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/qub-histor... 062
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 02/11/2025 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comLost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level studentFitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place 030
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Seriously @thecontinent.org ? TotalEnergies is not asking 4,5 bn from the #Mozambique government, and the "force majeure" has already been lifted. The only correct information is that negotiation are ongoing... 020
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 26/10/2025#Belfast sinking to new low of #racism & #xenophobia Not racist, says the mother who organised the outfit. Similar to famed restaurant owner Michael Deans who claims he was was "misunderstood" when denouncing Deliveroo workers as "undocumentdd strangers" coming to your door at night... 021
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 25/10/2025** BREAKING ** ‘Force majeure’ lifted on Mozambique LNG #TotalEnergies #Mozambique AfroLuso 010
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Morreu um grande homem R I.P. Fernando Veloso #Mocambique AfroLuso 000
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/10/2025According to PEW, #Mozambique is the only country in the world where Christianity has grown substantially - up five points - since 2010. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202... 050
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Dialogue for the country, north and south. President Chapo says he is ready to open a dialogue with insurgents in northern #Mozambique #diaologue #Africa #war #conflictresolution AfricanJihad AfroLuso www.aljazeera.com/features/202...aljazeera.com‘At the negotiating table’: Daniel Chapo’s plan to unite MozambiquePresident tells Al Jazeera about his vision for peace, unity and prosperity, in a year of social and political upset. 010
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 17/09/2025ALERT :: Racism in BELFAST tomrorow @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social @ucuatqub.bsky.social #Belfast Avoid these areas tomorrow + Donegal Pass - Contact Police - call 999 - Report online: www.psni.police.uk/report - Contact independent Hate Crime Service hcasni.com 020
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/09/2025** job ** Lecturer in International Relations at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR845/l...jobs.ac.ukLecturer in International Relations at Queen's University BelfastDiscover Lecturer in International Relations jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board. 010
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 12/09/2025** African Jihadi conflicts ** I'm organising a workshop on 3 Oct. 2025 at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social with Prof. Emilio Zeca, Dr AbdulHakim Nsobya, James Barnett, Dr Fabrizio Cuccu & Dr Fathima Badurdeen among others. In person only. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social 020
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 28/08/2025My interview for the Rosa Luxemburg Stuftung in South Africa about the jihadi insurgency in northern #Mozambique My thanks to Fredson Guilengue and the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5... AfricanJihad AfroLuso #Mozambique #jihad #conflict #peace #Africarosalux.deUnderstanding the Jihadi Insurgency in Cabo Delgado - Rosa-Luxemburg-StiftungEric Morier-Genoud on the genesis, dynamics, and possible resolution of Mozambique’s Islamist uprising 0102
Reposted by Eric Morier-GenoudCorinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com · 26/08/2025Vacancy in French: hhttps://www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/recrutement-contrat-postdoctoral-usages-regulations-violence-djhadiste-et-contre-insurecctionnelle/ Team members include @vincentfoucher.bsky.social @emorier.bsky.social @yguichaoua.bsky.social 011