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Claudia Gastrow

@cgastrow.bsky.social

Assistant Professor. Interested in African cities, socialist Atlantic histories, architecture and urban financialization. Book: The Aesthetics of Belonging: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469682181/the-aesthetics-of-belonging/

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Stefan Ouma@econgeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Now 6 years old but I still stand by it. roape.net/2020/07/16/a... #africapitalism @roapejournal.bsky.social @abotebuno.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social @ucl-ccs.bsky.social @acc-uct.bsky.social

‘Africapitalism’ and the limits of any variant of capitalism | ROAPE

In a contribution to ROAPE’s debate on capitalism in Africa, Stefan Ouma provides a critical account of Africapitalism as well as an assessment of the future/s it imagines, what it silences and its po...

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Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris@dhi-paris.fr · 7mo ago

Our scholarship holder Paul Sprute reports on #postcolonial transport infrastructure in Côte d’Ivoire, focusing on bridges in Abidjan, San Pedro's port & new town & border-crossing projects toward #Liberia : How were these ambitious plans of the independence era realized?

Post-Colonial Transport Infrastructures in Côte d’Ivoire: Projects and Realizations

Côte d’Ivoire’s post-colonial boom period has materialized in well-known landmark architecture, most notably the towers forming the Abidjan skyline and the Yamoussoukro project of a new post-colonial capital in the...

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Urban Affairs Review@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎧 NEW EPISODE! Feat. @cgastrow.bsky.social, author of "The Aesthetics of Belonging” from @uncpress.bsky.social. Listen here or find us wherever you get your podcasts! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

New Books: The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda, by Claudia Gastrow — Urban Affairs Review

In this episode, we’re speaking with Claudia Gastrow, author of The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda , published in 2024 by University of North Caroli...

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Nanjala@nanjala.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Dusk-to-Dawn curfew in place in Tanzania as protests continue following the national election yesterday. Incumbent Samia Suluhu is accused of intimidation and arbitrary arrests of leading opposition figures, including Chadema leader Tundu Lissu who is charged with treason and was not on the ballot.

Nikolai Brandes@nikolaibrandes.bsky.social · 10mo ago

China dominates the narrative on Africa’s urban development — but what about Turkey? In Maputo, Turkish construction firms are quietly reshaping the city, largely unnoticed by researchers. Not all of these companies are here for fun—many of them are run by exiles linked to the Gülen movement.

A newly constructed high-rise apartment building rises into the gray sky above a tree-lined street lined with older, low-rise houses.
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

newrepublic.com

Rachel Savage@rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“I realised if I stop now, who’s gonna stand up again? If I don’t do it, who’s going to do it? If it’s not now, then when?” I spoke to Gen Z protestors in Madagascar, who said they plan to fight on until the president resigns and the whole political system is reformed

‘We are the last hope’: Gen Z Madagascar vows to fight on until president resigns

Protesting young people reject dissolution of government as insufficient and demand list of reforms

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UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Introducing the William E. Leuchtenburg Fund Created to honor Bill Leuchtenburg’s decades of service on our board and his towering contributions to scholarship in American History. Learn more in this thread 🧵

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Claudia Gastrow@cgastrow.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to be part of this amazing collaboration which has helped me think more broadly and capaciously about histories of urbanism and architecture across the globe! Thanks to @staneklukasz.bsky.social for leading this initiative!

Łukasz Stanek@staneklukasz.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm grateful to the Graham Foundation for supporting our book The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives. Its greatest asset is the contributors, expanding the range of voices in architectural scholarship and testing new forms of collaboration: www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/669...

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Conceived as a rebuke of modernism’s minimalism + urban monotony, Gailhoustet + Renaudie’s master plan for Ivry’s town center is a jagged and diffuse pile of triangular volumes that leveled the unity of the superblock into a mosaic of ramps, rooftop terraces and gardens..."

When French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building Boom

The new book A Concrete Alliance explores the daring and divisive architecture built by the Communist Party of France in working-class towns of the 1960s and ’70s.

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Darren Olivier@darren.africandefence.net · 2y ago

President Ramaphosa’s touching tribute to the 14 South African soldiers killed during this month’s heavy fighting in the DRC, both as part of the SADC & United Nations missions. It was a solemn and proper opening to his address. They served their country, it’s important to honour & remember them.

gather here as our country is mourning the tragic and devastating loss of 14 South African soldiers who were part of a mission to bring peace to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. We bow our heads in tribute to: Staff Sergeant William Eddie Cola Staff Sergeant Molahlehi Ishmael Molahlehi Staff Sergeant Shwahlane Theophilus Seepe Corporal Matome Justice Malesa Corporal Rinae Nemavhulani Lance Bombardier Itumeleng Macdonald Moreo Lance Corporal Tseke Moffat Molapo Lance Corporal Metse Stansly Raswiswi Rifleman Sebatane Richard Chokoe Rifleman Derrick Maluleke Rifleman Tshidiso Andries Mabele Rifleman Calvin Louis Moagi Rifleman Mokete Joseph Mobe Private Peter Jacobus Strydom I have directed that the National Flag be flown at half-mast for a period of a week in honour of our fallen soldiers.Alongside soldiers from other Southern African countries, they lost their lives in defence of the fundamental right of the Congolese people to live in peace and security. They lost their lives not in the pursuit of resources or territory or power. They lost their lives so that the guns on our continent may be forever silenced. We salute our gallant soldiers.
Julian Rademeyer@julianrademeyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Police fire teargas, stun grenades and, in at least one instance, live bullets at supporters of Mozambican opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane gathered at Maputo's airport for his arrival this morning. (via Adriano Nuvunga)

Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 2y ago

Last Thursday's strike is eerily similar to a February drone massacre of 30+ people. I produced this visual investigation of it. Since the likes of Turkey, UAE, Iran and China began arming Ethiopia with drones in 2020, thousands of civilians have been killed in strikes.

Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 2y ago

THREAD: My visual investigation of a drone massacre of 30+ people in Ethiopia, is the cover page story on this weekend's edition of the @thecontinent.bsky.social. With this thread, I'll outline how we identified the massacre location in a war torn region where comms are severed. www.thecontinent.org

Issue 177 of The Continent, published October 12th 2024. The picture by artist Wynona Mutisi depicts the final moments as described by survivors of a drone strike in Ethiopia's Amhara region. Th coordinates are the location where the investigation identifies the site of the strike that killed 30+ riding aboard a truck.