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We want to thank all the authors for their dedicated work on the special issue. We also thank the team of Itinerario (Cátia Antunes, Anne-Isabelle Richard, Isaac Scarborough, José Pedro Monteiro, Pouwel van Schooten & Gijs Dreijer) and all the peer reviewers.

...but has to be based on mutual exchange and discussion. 3) Lastly, in discussions around the decolonising agenda, it becomes central to historicise how this agenda has already been tackled by generations before us to give depth to our understanding where we stand today.

...be done as collective endeavour as it requires diverse language skills and profound knowledge of specific regional, national and international contexts. But importantly, to draw out parallels and comparisons this cannot be a mere collection of texts...

...of decolonisation as a process rather than a moment, it is now central to reinsert the actual moment of flag-independence into historical narratives. 2) Studying processes of institutional and epistemological decolonisation in specific fields such as history writing must...

A number of observations from this collective endeavour stand out. 1) Historical moments of independence profoundly influence how agendas to decolonise epistemologies and institutions have developed around f the world. While it was important to first develop an understanding...

During the workshop we identified a couple of themes which emerged from a number of presentations, which you will be able to find now in a number of articles, such as the notion of autonomous history, epistemological sovereignty, futurity, the importance of place, etc.

The special issue is based on a workshop which we organised in Cambridge in 2023. We are grateful to the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and the Centre of African Studies who made that event possible through their generous support.

The special issue is rounded off by an afterword by the ever critical and always insightful Toyin Falola.

...the Pacific islands, to the UNESCO General History of Africa and History of Mankind. The articles look at the emergence of history departments, curricula, intellectual journals, the writings of specific individuals, and large scale international history writing projects.

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The articles have been contributed by Adrian Young, @bengohstoschool.bsky.social, Andrew Ivaska, Carlotta Marchi, Ria Chae, Mincheol Park, @allanpang.bsky.social, and @lascno.bsky.social. Our authors cover a wide range of examples, from Libya, Tanzania, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong...

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Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Casper Andersen and I are really excited that our special issue on history writing after independence has now been published. In the issue, we are looking at how institutional and epistemological factors impacted the process of history writing in the aftermath of independence. 🧵

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⚽️ football meets sovereignty — a little too on the nose... and yes, don't get me started on FIFA... May the better team win tonight... wait... did I say better? I meant Belgian... May the Belgian team win tonight 🇧🇪

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My mom's funeral service will take place on Tuesday, June 30, at 3 pm at Heilig Kreuz Church in Binningen. In lieu of flowers, we ask that you make a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières (IBAN: CH 85 0900 0000 1200 0100 2). MSF is an organisation my mother has donated to throughout her lifetime.

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She was the matriarch of our family and kept us all together and that means, this is also an end of an era for our family. While I am glad that her suffering is over — her last weeks have not been easy — I am also, somehow contradictorily, at the same time feeling empty and filled with sadness.

She was the anchor who quietly enabled my brothers and me — and of course my dad — to do things. There's many decisions in my life which I might not have taken if I would not have had that support, security, and safety net.

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My mom passed away a week ago after struggling with cancer for the last year. Over her life she has done many things and played many roles — including creating the architectural design of the wintergarten you can see in the top picture.

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But anyway, I have zero influence on this election, or what might or might not happen if he does get elected. I am just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if Burnham would continue the Starmer's centre-right policies, eventually leading to a Reform election win in the next national elections.

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Also, evidence from around Europe shows that copying the far right discourse is only helping the far right and is shifting the Overton Window.

That was exactly the argument which supporters of the current PM made, to convince the left to vote for him. Turns out the Starmer's wiggle room wasn't about changing course at all, but only about making it look like as if he might.

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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

You agreeing with him is your choice. I am just observing that he is positioning himself to the right of his own party's increasingly restrictive position on immigration. Voters who disagreed with that for the current PM won't suddenly change their mind because it's a different talking head.

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If Burnham does not support Mahmood's proposals, it would be easy for him to say so.