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Kuukuwa Manful

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Architect • Asst Prof • History, Theory, & Politics of Architecture in Africa Am I writing this book or is it writing me? kuukuwa.com

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/07/2025
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
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What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
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Nikolai Brandes @nikolaibrandes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Next week, I am hosting a workshop in Munich on the decolonization of architectural education. The workshop will feature a public lecture by architect and curator Nzinga Mboup (Dakar). 22 May at Pavillon 333 Registration is open until the end of the week www.globaldisconnect.org/03/12/22-may...
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22 May, Bioclimatic design in Senegal: lessons from the École d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme de Dakar and the work of Worofila - global dis:connect
The workshop addresses architectural education, specifically global debates and the historical experience of African schools of architecture.
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In hindsight, the battle against AI use in academia was lost before it even started. Congratulations to everyone involved and have fun in the Republic of Slop.
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”. Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome. www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The weather’s warmer in Ann Arbor and the flowers are showing out. I have a whole new understanding of ancient fertility rituals and mythologies around Springtime now.
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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just a few hours remaining for most ASA Awards & Honors! Don't miss your opportunity to nominate your colleague, student, or yourself. Most ASA award nominations close today, April 30: africanstudies.org/a...
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Call for abstract submissions to my SAH 2026 panel titled “New Insights on Histories of African Architecture”. Studies of social, political, economic, and cultural histories of architecture made, driven, and influenced by Africans on the African continent are welcome. www.sah.org/2026/call-fo...
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African Cities Research Consortium @africancities.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
NEW | Municipal finance: Crosscutting report Infrastructure and services are key to driving productivity in African cities and making them liveable, sustainable spaces. They are also needed to attract investment, enhance employment opportunities and advance structural transformation.
Graphic card showing map of Africa with Accra (Ghana), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Harare (Zimbabwe), Kampala (Uganda), Lagos (Nigeria), Lilongwe (Malawi), Maiduguri (Nigeria), Mogadishu (Somalia) and Nairobi (Kenya) marked, and text reading "Municipal finance crosscutting theme".
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Detroit-style pizza is the girl Chicago-style pizza thinks she is.
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"Large-scale infrastructure projects built and planned across the African continent... are essentially replicating colonial models of infrastructure" My article for @wpr.bsky.social on mining, big infrastructure projects and their legacy: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-miner...
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In Africa, the Race for Critical Minerals Is Recreating Colonial Models
Large-scale infrastructure projects across Africa are attracting billions of dollars in investment. They’re also replicating colonial models.
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Jeffrey Ahlman @jeffahlman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... New article: "W. E. B. Du Bois and the Liberian Question: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Tensions of a Black Republic"
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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Of all the great art at the University of Michigan hospitals, this - where patients & visitors put their sticker badges up on the walls while leaving is my favourite. It’s ritual, communal, visual & performance art rolled beautifully together.
Patient & guest access stickers on a column at the University of Michigan hospital.
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Ozayr Saloojee @ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
1/8 - The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture - the parent organization for the Journal of Architectural Education - has cancelled the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of the journal - titled “Palestine,” and fired our Interim Executive Editor.
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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐 www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Shame on the ACSA for cancelling the Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine! www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...
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ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor
ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...
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Folashade Soule @folasoule.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Off to #ISA2025 ! If you plan to attend come and join the following discussions: (1) Global South and disruptive Technologies in Governance (2) The evolving global order and IR Theory (3) Professional development for scholars in and from the Global South (4)Why and how book reviews can benefit you
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children
Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Excited to visit U of Toronto Sociology in a couple of weeks!: www.sociology.utoronto.ca/events/collo...
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Colloquia Series - Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies | Department of Sociology
Research discussion on Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies
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African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Emerging Scholars: Looking for journal publication mentorship? The 2025 PIPES workshop might be the answer! Read the workshop summary and submit a draft paper to be considered for our pre-conference workshop in Atlanta. africanstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 12/02/2025
The Museum of Stolen History: Egyptian government officials and individuals have campaigned for years for the return of what they call the Rashid Stone, but without success. The UK claims it owns the Rosetta Stone under agreements signed by France and the Ottomans and that Egypt has other copies.
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The Museum of Stolen History: Part III
Things can be taken. Their stories must still be told.
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Dennis Detwiller @drgonzo123.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I haven’t been this busy since I was growing my first organs as a baby in utero fr fr
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I've written about the long boom and long bust in South Africa's mining industry and how the once close alliance between industry and state dissolved in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. It's a cautionary tale for countries relying on mineral wealth. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
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After the Diamond Rush | Phenomenal World
For over 150 years, mining has constituted a core feature of the South African economy. The seemingly inexhaustible bounty of the earth made the country the wealthiest in the continent and financed on...
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 07/02/2025
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent. M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party. Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
The cover of issue 189 of The Continent is illustrated by cartoonist Gado. It's a send-up of the infamous Berlin Conference of 1884 which carved Africa amongst thee European powers. Instead of Africa being carved up however, it's the Democratic Republic of Congo being carved up amongst the leaders from the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) who are meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. At the head of the table is Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan. They are meeting to discuss the conflict between the DRC government and Rwandan-backed M23 soldiers.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...
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Civil rights attorney, former Miss Kansas contestant killed in plane crash near DC airport
As families and communities identify victims in Wednesday night’s plane crash near Washington, D.C., we’re learning that a well-known civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant is among t...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/01/2025
‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin
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‘Africa is where I’m from’: why some Black Brazilians are moving to Benin
West African country is offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved persons taken from the continent, sparking a huge interest Brazil João Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepped out of the airport terminal thousands of miles from…
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates, Lays Off Internal Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard University has laid off staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying direct descendants of ...
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
how do you respond to a reviewer who says something like 'this thing that began as a brutal practice was eventually normalised, so there's no need to connect those brutal origins to current practices'?
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hello friends & colleagues. I will be developing a project this year on spatial histories of infertility (the places & spaces associated with this experience, sites of intercession, prayer, pilgrimage, healing) & would love to learn of any connected research/ sites/ histories/ practices. Thank you!
Image of a holy well in Co Clare with ribbons tied to the trees
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 15/01/2025
Journalist Anas Al-Sharif removes his helmet and announces a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. His voice steady as his fellow Palestinians lift him into the air in celebration. For 15 months, the Al-Jazeera correspondent has reported on the genocide of his people in Gaza.
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Ambitious literature and public policy are each concerned with shaping reality. Perhaps no place embodies the power of artists & policymakers to arrange space & time more persuasively than Washington, D.C. For "An Unfinished Atlas," Tope Folarin writes about his search for prose, politics & power.
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The City Was All I Had
Ambitious literature and public policy each seek to shape reality. Few places embody the power of artists and policymakers to arrange space and time more persuasively than Washington D.C.
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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/01/2025
Celebrate Public Domain Day 2025! 🎉 Join us at the @InternetArchive for an unforgettable evening honoring #PublicDomain works from 1929: Roaring Twenties music & more. 📽️🍸 📅 Jan 22 | 🕕 6–10 PM PT 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/1117297439719 #PublicDomainDay
Photo of the historic Hotel Roosevelt.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/01/2025
‘Hotel of mum and dad’ in UK at its fullest in two decades, study finds
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‘Hotel of mum and dad’ in UK at its fullest in two decades, study finds
Almost a fifth of adults aged 24-34 are living with parents, particularly in areas of high-cost housing The “hotel of mum and dad” is the busiest it has been for two decades as an increasing number of young adults in the UK choose – or are forced by low…
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Any political party that campaigns on no work during the winter (and summer) has my vote. If they have a plan to abolish work completely, I'll quit everything and join them.
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Every living thing with sense sleeps through the winter, but since we got our degree, humans think they know everything!
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geneva 🖍️ nycc I-07 @gdbee.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Outside-In
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/12/2024
One of our biggest preservation projects to date: partnering with Aruba on Collecion Aruba, which provides free access to historical materials and cultural treasures—available on archive.org. More projects like this are possible with your support: archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eo…
Historic map of the island of Aruba.
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Here’s my first thread about my current timberborn settlement, a thing that brings me joy.
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Kuukuwa Manful @kuukuwa.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I want my first Bluesky post to be something big. I want something that says I’m here…
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