Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceState department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil 000
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 04/06/2026An 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! 042
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 04/05/2026One month until my book is out! Many, many years + 1 more month... #AnAnticolonialDevelopment asks how Europhone education came to be understood as part of African freedom—not just after independence, but in a longer Black Atlantic history of emancipation. 011
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Check out Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s excellent new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, on JE Casley Hayford of Ghana! open.spotify.com/episode/7gTW...open.spotify.comJeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026) 131
Reposted by Elisa ProsperettiHumanEuroMed @humaneuromed.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfonline.bsky.socialtandfonline.comBetween Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee RegimeThis essay analyses how Yugoslavia’s unique geopolitical position between the blocs, after its 1948 split with Moscow, played out in its refugee policies. First, it investigates the way in which Yu... 034
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Every once in a while, the chaos stills and I remember how lucky I am to get to be a historian. 000
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Very excited to share our conversation about Nana’s new book! We first met 10 years ago in Ghana and it’s amazing to see the journey behind such a beautiful book. open.spotify.com/episode/1R32...open.spotify.comNana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 012
Elisa Prosperetti @prosperetti.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Can’t wait to talk about this beautiful book for a New Books Network podcast soon! 031
