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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Baltimore, tomorrow Minkah Makalani and I will be in conversation with Howard French (@hofrench.bsky.social) about The Second Emancipation Don't miss it! 6pm, Bird in Hand www.eventbrite.com/e/howard-fre...
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Howard French with Minkah Makalani & Madina Thiam: THE SECOND EMANCIPATION
Journalist and author Howard W. French discuss his new volume about Africa’s pivotal role in shaping world history at Bird in Hand!
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ma dernière chronique pour @liberation.fr revient sur la genèse de l'Histoire Générale de l'Afrique publiée en onze volumes par l'UNESCO, entreprise scientifique et éditoriale initiée dans les années 1960 ("la plus impressionnante de ce siècle" dixit l'un des premiers contributeurs).
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thierry @pompo.net · 07/07/2026
Les volumes précédents de l’Histoire générale de l’Afrique sont disponibles librement depuis la page www.unesco.org/fr/general-h...
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Libération @liberation.fr · 05/07/2026
✍️ Le volume IX de l’«Histoire générale de l’Afrique», fantastique projet collectif, décolonial, et en accès libre, revisite les connaissances sur le riche passé de cette région d’Afrique de l’Ouest, se réjouit l’historienne Madina Thiam. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/RHQ
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ma dernière chronique pour @liberation.fr revient sur la genèse de l'Histoire Générale de l'Afrique publiée en onze volumes par l'UNESCO, entreprise scientifique et éditoriale initiée dans les années 1960 ("la plus impressionnante de ce siècle" dixit l'un des premiers contributeurs).
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R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
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Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE
Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The deadly violence of xenophobia. "Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as 'invisible shipwrecks' but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know."
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Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean. Authorities are withholding information
The beginning of 2026 ranks as the deadliest start to any year for people trying to cross the Mediterranean. But the true count may be even higher.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law. roape.net/2026/03/17/b...
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Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE
Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hundreds Missing in “Invisible Shipwrecks” in the Mediterranean UN data shows 682 migrants missing in the Mediterranean by March 16/2026, the deadliest start to a year, as Italy, Tunisia & Malta restrict information on rescues & shipwrecks.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Tiempo Garan Kouyaté, né à Ségou en 1902, mort dans un camp de concentration en Autriche en 1944.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 14/03/2026
✍️ Le militant Kouyaté face à l’industriel François Coty : il y a un siècle, les racines coloniales du fascisme L’obsession du riche homme d’affaires d’extrême droite à combattre le syndicaliste anticolonial a d’étranges résonances contemporaines, relève l’historienne Madina Thiam. Lire 👇
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Le militant Kouyaté face à l’industriel François Coty : il y a un siècle, les racines coloniales du fascisme
L’obsession du riche homme d’affaires d’extrême droite à combattre le syndicaliste anticolonial Tiémoko Garan Kouyaté a d’étranges résonnances contemporaines, relève l’historienne Madina Thiam.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽
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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
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Laurent Dubois @soccerpolitics.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Looking forward to reading this!
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I'm pleased to share my latest article, available open access. I wrote about the long aftermath of a nineteenth-century war in central Mali, and how an intimate approach to historical research and writing can yield new understandings of time and space in African history. doi.org/10.1017/hia....
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The Century’s Firstborn: Intimate History in the Aftermath of Nineteenth-Century Islamic Revolutions in Central Mali | History in Africa | Cambridge Core
The Century’s Firstborn: Intimate History in the Aftermath of Nineteenth-Century Islamic Revolutions in Central Mali
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Dans ma chronique pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur la genèse d'un monument que les Bamakois connaissent bien, la fresque Mohammed al-Durah, et au delà, sur les voyageurs dont les itinéraires et les imaginaires ont connecté le Sahel à la Palestine depuis des siècles tinyurl.com/LibeSahel
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Du Sahel à la Palestine, un monde globalisé depuis au moins sept siècles
Les liens entre Bamako, Zinder et Jérusalem ou Gaza ont une histoire ancienne, tissés par les religieux et les intellectuels, puis renforcés par les mouvements de solidarité anti-impérialiste dans la ...
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Audrey Celestine @audreycel.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Le séminaire Antiracismes et sciences sociales reprend avec un très beau programme!
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings.
    
Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester.  
 
If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two.  Do they share themes?  Forms?  Tone?  Historical context?  Do you find them equally interesting?  

Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work.  Quote specific lines, phrases, or images.
 
Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important.

Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices.

Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself.  How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? 
  
Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes.
 
Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading.

Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning.  Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.
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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx
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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 09/07/2025
Please visit our new webpage on Cambridge Core (@universitypress.cambridge.org) ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cambridge Core Annales pageCambridge Core Annales Page
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Camille Lefebvre @camillelefebvre.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.
Photographie des étudiants à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire vers 1900
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥
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Libération @liberation.fr · 21/06/2025
Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950. Bamako, 1959. Des militantes de la première heure livrent un réquisitoire à la fois contre le joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre Tribune de‪ @thiamm.bsky.social‬ ⤵️
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Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam
Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Dans ce billet pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur une époque où les femmes d'Afrique de l'ouest étaient engagées localement et à l'international Et sur un événement fondateur: le congrès de l'Union des Femmes de l'Ouest Africain, juillet 1959, Bamako www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam
Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pou...
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
NYC, join us tomorrow for the launch of Verso's Southern Question series we'll discuss the (re)release of Andrée Blouin's My Country, Africa, and Adéwálé Májà-Pearce's This Fiction Called Nigeria 7pm at The People's Forum, more info + tickets here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...
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The peoples forum 
320 West 37th Street 
New York, NY 10018
May 29 @7pm

Verso Books Southern Questions Series Launch

Featurng Adom Getachew, Adéwálé Májà-Pearce, Howard French and Madina Thiam
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New York! Join us for a screening of Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence Afterwards I'll be in conversation with director Kalidou Sy 🗓️Monday May 26 📍Maysles Documentary Center 🕜doors open 6pm Free with registration. Grab your seat, we don't have many left! RSVP🔗https://pp.events/b2QYQNBm
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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Past & Present Fellowships
Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Just back from Morocco and if you guys are in Casablanca, please visit Siniya research. It's a community center, archive, and translation space taking its partial inspo (and name) from Nas El Ghiwane, revisiting panafrican histories that almost were, and doing much more.
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Madina Thiam @thiamm.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Last night was 10/10 the highlight of my time at NYU so far. Long live Onions, cheers to the colleague who said we ride until dawn, and s/o to RK aka the best to ever do it (iykyk). Free Palestine!!🍉
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