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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A pleasure to host you, and discuss a provocative & well-researched book. (You have modestly neglected to mention the publisher's discounted price of £15.39 with coupon code E26BRNKM: mngbookshop.co.uk/9781478033134/occupied-refuge)

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Occupied Refuge

In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of people fleeing crises. ...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thanks to the Northeast Africa Forum & @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for inviting me to re-launch OCCUPIED REFUGE at Oxford. Thanks to the online & in-person audience for a really engaged discussion! Thx also to discussant Loren Landau & to hosts @jasonmosley.bsky.social & @mwangimwaura.bsky.social

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 2 June for a book launch & discussion: 'Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya' w/author Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow) & discussant Loren Landau (Oxford) *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

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Mwangi Mwaura @mwangimwaura.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Book Chapter co-authored with Kamau Wairuri in this volume examining how queer & trans refugees navigate policing in Nairobi.📝 on forms of everyday over-policing e.g house raids & arbitrary arrests, and explore solidarity networks developed in response open-access: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/east-afri...

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East African Queer and Trans Displacements

Bringing together diverse case studies and interdisciplinary perspectives, this open access collection serves as the first in-depth examination of queer and tra…

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🔥In Nairobi, urban restructuring has intensified struggles over land, belonging and the meaning of home. 📖𝗠𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶 𝗠𝘄𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 has more 👉 pambazuka.org/Anti-urbanis... #Nairobi #Kenya #urbanism #home #capital @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

Demolished site of Gikomba Market (taken on 1st April 2026). Credit: Mwangi

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🔥Issue 922 offers incisive analyses of the 2026 Franco-Africa Summit, nuclear energy, intra-Global African critiques, belonging, naming, music, freedom ships, and workers' issues. 📖Read it at: pambazuka.org #Africa #France #Kenya #Music #SouthAfrica @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

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Mwangi Mwaura @mwangimwaura.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

anchored by Bettina Ng’weno’s book I wrote on the planning/development logic that continues to dictate that cities should only be ‘home’ for capital, not people.

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🔥France pivots in East Africa as it is increasingly expelled from West Africa. Given its West African records, the 2026 Franco-Africa forward summit raises several questions for Global Africa 📖Read 𝗪. 𝗠𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮's take at pambazuka.org/Forward-Summ... #Kenya #France #Africa @mwangimwaura.bsky.social

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 12 May for the seminar, when Abdulhakim Nsobya (QU Belfast) presents: 'Rectifying Jihad: Governance, Leadership & the Making of Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP)' *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 5 May for a book launch & discussion of: Sites of Remembering: The Meaning of African Art Through Memory W/author Abebe Zegeye & discussants Thembinkosi Goniwe & Cressida Marcus *Hybrid event* Webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5b579a...

Event flyer, with speaker details and book blurb.

Book cover, Sites of Remembering by Abebe Zegeye.

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Mwangi Mwaura @mwangimwaura.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The last two months at #GikombaMarket, Nairobi, have been heavy. To inhabit most parts of #Nairobi is to live under the ever-present shadow of looming demolitions and other violences: floods, fires, police, modernisation…

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 10 Feb, 4pm UK time. @delfmt.bsky.social (Lorraine, Nancy) will present: 'A New "Playground of Europe"? Exploration, colonisation & the naturalisation of Mt Kilimanjaro at the dawn of the 20th century' *Hybrid event* Details: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/2be...

Event flyer including abstract & author bio.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"Queer Apocalypse," a new special issue (33:1) from GLQ, is now available: buff.ly/sIoCEo8 The issue explores the subcultural limits and pleasures of creating queer art, scholarship, and community across hostile terrains and turbulent times.

Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies cover with veiled figure reaching toward light in blue green panel on orange background

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Please join for the Northeast Africa Forum's next seminar, 11 Nov, 4pm UK time. Gedion Onyango (LSE) will present on: 'Gen Z protests and prospects for political change in Africa: A longitudinal analysis' *Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/46e...

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Please join us for the Northeast African Forum, 28 October, 4pm UK time. Dr Prince Guma will be presenting 'Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think' *Hybrid event* Full details & webinar registration: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/d2a...

Flyer for event, with timing details, registration link and abstract for talk.

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc #FashionStudies #IIAS

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Norman Aselmeyer @aselmeyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served! #ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower @uvahumanities.bsky.social

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Urban Theory Africa- Doing Workshop (UTA-Do) @uta-do.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Apply for the UTA-Do 2026 workshop happening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from February 9-13. This time round, we have 10 full scholarships available through the Wagon2Africa project. Read more here: sites.google.com/view/uta-do/... Apply by 30 September 2025!

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

🔥The Struggle Continues!!! 📖 #Issue899 is full of inspiring pieces and answers on Movements for #Reparations, #Liberation, and #Commemorations in Global Africa. 👉Access it here: pambazuka.org ✍️Read, comment, and share @malangwa.bsky.social @daughterofsahel.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🏗️The Limits of Infrastructure-Led Politics in Kenya on Our Protests/Our protests are limited by infrastructure-led politics 👉Join Mwaura in conversation on the limits of this politics on vision and the issues it hides. 👉See tinyurl.com/PZ-Infrast-pol #Infrastructure #Kenya @malangwa.bsky.social

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