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Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📢 New Article! Can constitutions protect diversity without freezing identity? Ramtohul examines Mauritius’s Independence Constitution, arguing that while it promoted political stability, it also entrenched identities that continue to shape nation-building. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam during the flag raising ceremony on the 12th March 1968.

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Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche @africarivista.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Call for contributions! Africa is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal with no costs for authors. We welcome submissions in all fields of African studies and offer an established and authoritative platform for your research. Submissions can be in Italian, English, or French 👉 africa.cspe@gmail.com

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Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📢 New Article! Do extractive mega-projects create development or deepen inequality? Mattioli compares mining in Tete & LNG development in Cabo Delgado, showing how communities experienced dispossession, organised resistance & challenged extractivist development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Keynote moments from the #ASAI2026 Conference at Università degli Studi di Pavia last week (1-3 July). #Africanstudies #Africa #Pavia #Italy

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Kaole, Tanzania -BIEA #historyxt

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The sun is out, the sky is blue, and the ASAI 2026 VIII Conference is about to start! #ASAI2026 #Africanstudies #Africa #Pavia

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I cannot wait for the upcoming ASAI Conference, next week (1-3 July) in Pavia. 29 panels, 3 book presentations, 2 keynote lectures, 1 movie screening, all about water: our guests will surely find some refreshment in this unrelenting heat! Full programme: www.asaiafrica.org/conferenze-a...

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MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Nestled in the Shashe-Limpopo area, Mmamagwa was a significant satellite site of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom. Today, Mmamagwa is part of UNESCO Tentative List site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape spanning Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. #UNESCO #BotswanaSouthAfricaZimbabwe #Mapungubwe

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MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Karimjee Hall, built in 1916, began as the mainland mansion of the Gujarati-Zanzibari Karimjee family, traders between East Africa and India. Donated to Dar es Salaam, it became Tanganyika’s first parliament and Nyerere’s swearing-in site. #NationalmuseumofTanzania #Zanzibar #Historicalbuildings

Karimjee Hall, National Archives UK reference CO 1069-157-91

Ceremony of the donation of Karimjee hall to the legislative assembly ©Karimjee Group

Abdulkareem Y.A. Karimjee presiding over Tanganyika’s independence ceremony ©Karimjee Group

Karimjee Hall today ©Dar es Salaam City Council

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This looks like a great book that I should read!

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New Publication from ASCL! Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita: bit.ly/4eNh9Iq #SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.

Aerial view of a small downpour of rain released from white clouds over a body of water next to two open mine pits and urban settlements.

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I wrote and edited most of African Thresholds while physically crossing the border, on the train to and fro my academic home @geschichtebasel.bsky.social – a very privileged crossing. The book would not exist without the comfort, support, and intellectual stimulation I found in Basel. Thanks!

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The first press report on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, which concluded: "Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"

Framed clipping from a newspaper on a tiled wall.
The newspaper is the Colesberg Advertiser dated 9.4.1867
Text of the article:
"The Wonderful South African
Diamond.
There is a story this morning afloot in the
village. It has just been told us by a lady,
and we give it just as we have heard it. A
Mr. John O'Reilly, a hunter. explorer, &c.,
something of the Dr. Livingstone stamp,
though not yet quite so well known, in his
travels in the North Country-somewhere
about the Orange River, picked up a stone two
or three months since, which he thought had
something remarkable about it, and brought
it down with him. It was shown to several
persons here, and was at length sent down
to Dr. Atherstone of Grahamstown to be
examined, and as the lady told us, a letter
has come by this morning's post from the
Doctor, saying that it is a Diamond and
worth £800 .- Now we quite expect that the
"Great Eastern" will have a grand laugh at
us about the South African Diamond, as he
did some time ago about the Orange River
Serpent-but we have stated the report just
as we have heard it .-- Stranger things, how-
ever, have come to pass in the world than
the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa."

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Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here: brill.com/display/titl...

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African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present

"African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.

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