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Fabian Krautwald

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Historian of eastern and southern Africa @uclhistory.bsky.social interested in memory, sovereignty, and decolonization.

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IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

African socialisms were original ideologies rather than a generic repackaging - join us next Tuesday October 13 for an IHR African History Seminar with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social (Rice University) to examine Kwame Nkrumah's efforts to transform Ghana into Africa's first socialist state!

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IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Biography can help recover history from colonial dispossession and silencing - join us next Wednesday September 30 for the first IHR African History Seminar in 26/27 with Ben Lawrance and Vusumuzi Kumalo to explore how, focusing on South African writer Dugmore Boetie, apartheid, and decolonization!

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you're in Dar es Salaam, please join us tomorrow and Friday at the University of Dar es Salaam for our workshop "Between Dhows and Dukas", featuring a keynote by Professor Salvatory Nyanto. With support by the @britishacademy.bsky.social, @uclhistory.bsky.social, and @unibayreuth.bsky.social !

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@ihr.bsky.social @africaneconhist.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @thejah.bsky.social

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@ihr.bsky.social @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @roapejournal.bsky.social @thejah.bsky.social @africaatlse.bsky.social

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Note: online only!

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What role did morality play in an immoral regime? To find out, join us on June 17 at the IHR African History Seminar with Adyeeri Kembabazi (Warwick), who will present her book on the politics of sex, reproduction, and fashion in Idi Amin's Uganda. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A State of Morality: Sexual, Reproductive, and Sartorial Politics in Idi Amin’s Uganda

African History Seminar

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The decline of the Roman Empire offers insights into the crisis of African states in the 19th century, which paved the way for colonial conquest. Join us on next Wednesday June 10 for a virtual IHR African History Seminar with Allegra Ayida (Yale) to find out how! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Decline and Fall of the Warri Kingdom, 1848–1900

African History Seminar

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Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An Anticolonial Development is out today with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I show how West Africans claimed the mind—not the body—as the site of economic productivity at independence, making education central to freedom and development. P.S. I haven’t seen a copy yet—apparently others have!

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The decline of the Roman Empire offers insights into the crisis of African states in the 19th century, which paved the way for colonial conquest. Join us on next Wednesday June 10 for a virtual IHR African History Seminar with Allegra Ayida (Yale) to find out how! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Decline and Fall of the Warri Kingdom, 1848–1900

African History Seminar

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

For patients, biomedicine and African healing systems have long been complementary - join us Wednesday, May 20, at the IHR African History Seminar with Asa Mudzimu (Birmingham) to learn how views from southern Zimbabwe enrich the history of medicine! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Not-So Modern Clinic in Colonial Northwest Zimbabwe, 1965-1982

African History Seminar

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

For patients, biomedicine and African healing systems have long been complementary - join us Wednesday, May 20, at the IHR African History Seminar with Asa Mudzimu (Birmingham) to learn how views from southern Zimbabwe enrich the history of medicine! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A Not-So Modern Clinic in Colonial Northwest Zimbabwe, 1965-1982

African History Seminar

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Utopias do not emerge in a vacuum, but through transnational exchange. Join us next Wednesday, May 6, at the IHR African History Seminar with Stephanie Wanga (LSE) to learn what this looked like in socialist Zanzibar and East Germany during the 1960s! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Utopia Between Zanzibar and East Germany (1960-1990)

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If you're interested in the relationship between art and history after colonialism, please join us on May 14, 2026 at UCL for the launch of a small exhibit of contemporary Namibian art! Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Udadisi @udadisi.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

How can insights from African history inform current debates about commemoration of colonial violence and the Holocaust? Check out my new article in New German Critique to find out: doi.org/10.1215/0094... Thanks to @joncatlin.bsky.social for a great special issue on German Memory Politics!

The Comforts of Provincialism: The History and Future of Colonial Memory in Germany

This article analyzes some of the historical causes for contemporary disputes in Germany over the commensurability of colonial violence and the Holocaust, which have once again intensified after Hamas...

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Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

PhD Studentships at King's College London

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

African history can enrich our understanding of Ottoman history, not just the other way around. Join us next Wednesday, February 4, for the IHR African History Seminar with Kerem Duymus (Leipzig University) to learn more! Register here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Ottoman Empire Imagined from Africa: Visions of Tripolitan Elites for an Islamic African State under Ottoman Rule

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Next Wednesday, the IHR African History Seminar welcomes Jake Subryan Richards, who will present his new book The Bonds of Freedom (Yale UP) on the possibilities and constraints faced by liberated Africans in the 19th-century Atlantic world! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Interested in the intellectual history of West Africa? Then please join us next Wednesday in person or via Zoom for the IHR African History Seminar on the Kanuri scholar al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social , @royalhistsoc.org, @africaatlse.bsky.social

The Nineteenth-Century Central Sahel Between Orality and Literacy: Interpreting the Kanuri Scholarship of Al-Hajj Musa Ibn Hissein of Borno

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

If you're in London and interested in Angolan and West Central African history, please join us next Wednesday at the IHR African History Seminar with João Figueiredo! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @africaatlse.bsky.social

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola: Law and Multinormativity in Early Modern West Central Africa

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ZIAF Frankfurt @ziaf-frankfurt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Today: Fabian Krautwald (UCL) will be speaking on “Fluid Remembrance: Oceanic Crossings and Colonial Memories in the Rise of African Nationalism” as part of our lecture series on transoceanic exchanges. 2-4pm, Hörsaalzentrum Hz 8 @goetheuni.bsky.social www.movingcultures.de/fabian-kraut...

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Fabian Krautwald (UCL): “Fluid Remembrance: Oceanic Crossings and Colonial Memories in the Rise of African Nationalism” | Transoceanic Exchanges – Moving Cultures, Transcultural Encounters

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

There is only one week left to apply for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium 2026. Find out more and apply: bit.ly/4nyWsmv

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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We’re honoured to welcome renowned journalist and SOAS President Zeinab Badawi for the launch of the new African History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research✨ 🗓️ 14 Oct 2025 🕠 5:30–7:30 pm 📍 Hybrid: Zoom & Senate House, London All welcome and free, register here: shorturl.at/vyAMN

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Happy to share the launch of the new, hybrid African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social . Check out our fall program here: history.ac.uk/news-events/... If you're in London and want to present new research on Africa, get in touch!

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Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

All sessions are hybrid, so you can easily join from outside London and the UK!

Fabian Krautwald @fkrautwald.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The inaugural meeting of the new African History Seminar at London's Institute of Historical Research will take place on October 14 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Zeinab Badawi will talk about her fantastic book, An African History of Africa. You can register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... Join us!

Recasting the Past: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of Africa

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025. • African History • Migration & Mobility History • Planetary History Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎓 London calling! Study at a top-10 QS uni in the heart of Bloomsbury. Visa students: just over a month left to apply for a Master’s at UCL History! 🌍 Culture, Economy, Empires, Environment, Modern, Medieval, Ancient & Public History! Apply now 👉 shorturl.at/13nVr #UCL #History #Masters

Master's in History | Graduate (Taught)

Study for a History Master's degree at the intellectual heart of the world's best student city (QS Best Student Cities 2018-25).

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The @erc.europa.eu's Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdocs go live tomorrow. Would you like to hold one @uclhistory.bsky.social? If so get in touch with me! #skyhistorians

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

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SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Next up in the #SOAS History Seminar is @fkrautwald.bsky.social (UCL) who will be speaking about 'Mnemonic sovereignty: Memories of German colonialism and Africa’s decolonization'. Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 5pm in room C325. All welcome! For more information see www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Photo appears to be showing black troops in the German colonial army. Image: Copyright by the National Archives of Namibia, with permission

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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dr Fabian Krautwald has recently published a short article for the American-German Institute on the nearing conclusion of the 'reconciliation agreement' between Namibia and Germany about the genocide of 1904-1908 against the Herero and Nama 📖 americangerman.institute/2025/01/a-ze...

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A Zeitenwende for Whom?

German Colonial Memory and Epistemic Barriers On November 21, 2024, The Namibian, Namibia’s leading English-language newspaper, reported that the ongoing negotiations between Namibia and Germany over ...