Despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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An Anticolonial Development is out today with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I show how West Africans claimed the mind—not the body—as the site of economic productivity at independence, making education central to freedom and development. P.S. I haven’t seen a copy yet—apparently others have!

One month until my book is out! Many, many years + 1 more month... #AnAnticolonialDevelopment asks how Europhone education came to be understood as part of African freedom—not just after independence, but in a longer Black Atlantic history of emancipation.

Check out Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s excellent new @princetonupress.bsky.social book, on JE Casley Hayford of Ghana! open.spotify.com/episode/7gTW...

Jeanne-Marie Jackson, "The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" (Princeton UP, 2026)

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Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfonline.bsky.social

Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime

This essay analyses how Yugoslavia’s unique geopolitical position between the blocs, after its 1948 split with Moscow, played out in its refugee policies. First, it investigates the way in which Yu...

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Every once in a while, the chaos stills and I remember how lucky I am to get to be a historian.

Very excited to share our conversation about Nana’s new book! We first met 10 years ago in Ghana and it’s amazing to see the journey behind such a beautiful book. open.spotify.com/episode/1R32...

Nana Osei-Opare, "Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana's Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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Can’t wait to talk about this beautiful book for a New Books Network podcast soon!

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Next week, March 30th at 6:30 pm EDT, @jhuartssciences.bsky.social hosts an event with Jeanne-Marie Jackson, author of The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa, at Bird in Hand Coffee & Books. Reserve your spot for this free event here: buff.ly/z3nsLSU

I am absolutely dying to read this!

Priya Lal@priyalalista.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My book is coming to life! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...