This is a stunning article by @faisalahali.bsky.social, covering the radical history of Radio Mogadishu and ongoing efforts to protect its extraordinary archive. There's also embedded audio, if you're curious about how its broadcasts sounded! www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
Somalia races to save Radio Mogadishu’s fading archive
A small team is working to digitise decades of Somali history in the country's main public radio station.
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Historians: read this, circulate this, sign this, and vote! "Amid pivotal elections underway, a growing coalition of historians are demanding accountability for war crimes in Gaza and election interference at the oldest historical association in the United States." www.usscholarsspeak.org
US Scholars Speak
Confronting the AHA's Palestine Exception July 2026
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AHA members, the elections are open till July 15! I was eager to support this year's Democracy Slate! This graphic introduces those petition candidates.
Historians! This is a great overview of what an undemocratic disaster our professional association has become, and how we can take it back: www.instagram.com/p/DY5MxxqGse...
My book is coming to life! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Ambition and Adjustment
How the best intentions of African socialism became the useful tools of capitalism.In the mid-twentieth century, skilled labor was seen as the key to national development. For newly independent Africa...
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'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson. @quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Happy to share that my book, Ambition and Adjustment: The Making and Unmaking of Postcolonial Development in Africa, will be published by the University of Chicago Press next year! More soon about this project that I am very proud of and have been working on for a very long time.
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.
Lagos, unbound tempest beneath your feet
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Lagos with Victor Adewale.
continent.substack.com
100% of Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine.
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
Addis, alive and unrelenting
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Addis Ababa with Amanuel Sileshi.
continent.substack.com
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
The strange sadness of Algiers
We Built This City is a limited series of photo essays by The Continent on African cities. This week, we are in Algiers with Fethi Sahraoui.
continent.substack.com
