Ettore Morelli
@ettoremorelli.bsky.social
Historian, Antifascist. Last time seen wandering between the Mohokare and the Molopo, three hundred years ago. Doing some work at Università di Pavia / @africarivista.bsky.social / Five Hundred Year Archive
📢 New Article! Can constitutions protect diversity without freezing identity? Ramtohul examines Mauritius’s Independence Constitution, arguing that while it promoted political stability, it also entrenched identities that continue to shape nation-building. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Call for contributions! Africa is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal with no costs for authors. We welcome submissions in all fields of African studies and offer an established and authoritative platform for your research. Submissions can be in Italian, English, or French 👉 africa.cspe@gmail.com
📢 New Article! Do extractive mega-projects create development or deepen inequality? Mattioli compares mining in Tete & LNG development in Cabo Delgado, showing how communities experienced dispossession, organised resistance & challenged extractivist development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Keynote moments from the #ASAI2026 Conference at Università degli Studi di Pavia last week (1-3 July). #Africanstudies #Africa #Pavia #Italy
Origins and Development of Swahili Architecture (ca. 500-1900 CE) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/origins-an...
The Origins and Development of Swahili Architecture (ca. 500-1900 CE)
The East African coast, also known as the Swahili coast, is well known for its picturesque ruins of stone houses, mosques, tombs, and town walls, which dotted the 2000-mile coastline from southern Som...
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The sun is out, the sky is blue, and the ASAI 2026 VIII Conference is about to start! #ASAI2026 #Africanstudies #Africa #Pavia
I cannot wait for the upcoming ASAI Conference, next week (1-3 July) in Pavia. 29 panels, 3 book presentations, 2 keynote lectures, 1 movie screening, all about water: our guests will surely find some refreshment in this unrelenting heat! Full programme: www.asaiafrica.org/conferenze-a...
In other news, last November my first book came out, and next Friday 10 April I will launch it with my friend and colleague Matteo Grilli at the Libreria Griot. It's La voce del re, or The Voice of the King. When in Rome... see you on Friday! #Africa #Statehood #booklaunch #Lesotho #SouthAfrica
Presentazione de "La voce del re" di Ettore Morelli - Libreria GRIOT - Roma
Venerdì 10 aprile alle 17,30 GRIOT ospita la presentazione de “La voce del re” di Ettore Morelli (Viella) Dialoga con l’autore Matteo Grilli (Università di Pisa) Il volume ricostruisce per […]
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Come, come to Pavia next summer!! #ASAI #Africa #Conference #ASAI2026 #CFP
Africa. Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche@africarivista.bsky.social · 6mo agoCFP!! ASAI – the African Studies Association of Italy – will hold their 8th Conference next 1-3 July in Pavia. The theme is "Africa and Its Waters: Flows, Fates and Frameworks" and this is the last week of the Call for Papers! #Africa #Conference #ASAI #CFP www.asaiafrica.org/conferenze-a...
Nestled in the Shashe-Limpopo area, Mmamagwa was a significant satellite site of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom. Today, Mmamagwa is part of UNESCO Tentative List site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape spanning Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. #UNESCO #BotswanaSouthAfricaZimbabwe #Mapungubwe
Karimjee Hall, built in 1916, began as the mainland mansion of the Gujarati-Zanzibari Karimjee family, traders between East Africa and India. Donated to Dar es Salaam, it became Tanganyika’s first parliament and Nyerere’s swearing-in site. #NationalmuseumofTanzania #Zanzibar #Historicalbuildings
there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts
New Publication from ASCL! Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?
In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita: bit.ly/4eNh9Iq #SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid
A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.
I wrote and edited most of African Thresholds while physically crossing the border, on the train to and fro my academic home @geschichtebasel.bsky.social – a very privileged crossing. The book would not exist without the comfort, support, and intellectual stimulation I found in Basel. Thanks!
Departement Geschichte Universität Basel@geschichtebasel.bsky.social · last yr.📚 Out now: "African Thresholds" by Ettore Morelli. What is a border, and why does it exist? In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. brill.com/display/titl...
The first press report on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, which concluded: "Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"
I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here: brill.com/display/titl...
African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present
"African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, <i>c.</i>1450 to Present" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.
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