Vincent Hiribarren
@bixhiribarren.bsky.social
Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
Biography can help recover history from colonial dispossession and silencing - join us next Wednesday September 30 for the first IHR African History Seminar in 26/27 with Ben Lawrance and Vusumuzi Kumalo to explore how, focusing on South African writer Dugmore Boetie, apartheid, and decolonization!
The research of our new colleague, William Pettigrew, is in the @theguardian.com today: 'The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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“For Whom and For What Purpose? A Position Paper on #DigitalHumanities and #AI in #AfricanStudies”, is now out in the ZMO Programmatic Texts series! doi.org/10.58144/202... The result of a workshop organised with @fmadore.bsky.social in February 2026. We wrote our paper with 23 other authors!
Will the UK buy jet fuel from union-busting Dangote refinery? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Nigerian refinery accused of sacking union members is key to UK plan to tackle jet fuel shortage
Heidi Alexander says part of answer to strait of Hormuz crisis is importing more fuel from US and west Africa
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A very good article on Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of #BokoHaram by Ahmad Salkida #Humangle humanglemedia.com/ideology-blo...
Ideology, Blood, and War: Rethinking the Origins of Boko Haram
The teachings of Mohammed Yusuf, the founder of Boko Haram attracted disenchanted youth and long after his death, the movement has escalated.
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Today is the 100th birthday of Shirley Ardener, a valued author, editor, and supporter of Berghahn Books. We want to take the opportunity to highlight some of her contributions with us, click the links below to read more. KINGDOM ON MOUNT CAMEROON: bit.ly/4m0sPea SOCIAL IDENTITIES: bit.ly/4v4Sg2y
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Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence in African Studies
The integration of digital humanities (DH) and artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the production of knowledge in African Studies, offering new opportunities for innovative analysis, dynam...
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Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...
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Two more PhD scholarships at @kingshistory.bsky.social: focussing on different aspects of Nigerian history, and working with my excellent colleague @bixhiribarren.bsky.social : www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...
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La guerre du #Cameroun peut maintenant être enseignée en dernière année du lycée en France : eduscol.education.fr/document/692... Bravo @kramondy.bsky.social
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Pleased to share my new African Security article: Parallels between vigilantes and Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin. Here I argue both are home-grown products of state weakness, sharing social worlds which explains vigilante's effectiveness and associated risks.
See the great work done by @fmadore.bsky.social here: A collection of easy-to-use #AI tools for processing documents and audio files. These tools use Google's #Gemini AI to automatically transcribe, extract text, and generate summaries github.com/fmadore/zmo-...
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I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes." Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
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afriquexxi.info/Nigeria-Etat... par @vincentfoucher.bsky.social
Nigeria-États-Unis. « Certains refusent d’affronter la complexité du réel » - Entretien
Sur quoi reposent les affirmations de Donald Trump selon lesquelles il existerait un « génocide » des chrétiens au Nigeria ? Jusqu’où le président états-unien est-il prêt à aller et pourquoi ? (…)
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A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions. https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm
Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives: bit.ly/4q4UGvD
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”
The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It
A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.
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On Wednesday!
Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London@kings-dfi.bsky.social · last yr.🏛️ What does the future of history look like in a digital age? Join us on 15 October for The Digital Futures of History and explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the way we study, preserve and engage with the past ⬇️ @stuartdunn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social
Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ? https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null
Empires. Une histoire sociale de l'environnement. Sortie du livre aujourd'hui, après deux ans de travail avec le camarade Antonin Plarier ! Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français. www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...
Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement - CNRS Editions
Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement (EAN13 : 9782271151889) édité par CNRS Editions - Qu’est-ce que les empires et le colonial font aux environnements qu’ils rencontrent, conquièrent pui...
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Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO
📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland
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James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · last yr.Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist
Come and work with me! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR768/p...
PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only) at King's College London
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