African Studies Library - Cambridge University
We support the research & teaching activities of the Centre of African Studies at Cambridge.
Open 9-5, Mon-Fri.
Find out more: linktr.ee/afrlib
Run by Jenni & Ben.
@yolandaaixela.bsky.social
Antropòloga, Black Spain R&D Project, Grup DIVERSE (IMF-CSIC, Barcelona)
@jessicagardner.bsky.social
University Librarian and Director of Library Services, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. Loves libraries, archives, research and all things books and learning. Reads a lot of books.
@rogermid.bsky.social
Horn of Africa research. MD Sabi Insight Ltd and Rift Valley Inst Fellow. Ex CDI, Oxfam & Chatham House.
@belgiancongo.bsky.social
Historical content From #Belgium, #Congo, the #BelgianCongo, #CongoFreeState, #RuandaUrundi and King Leopold II of Belgium!
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet. Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge. Handle on all socials: folukeifejola Website: FolukeAfrica.com https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
@camhistory.bsky.social
News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
@tprobert.bsky.social
Researcher on human rights and development. Formerly @UNHumanRights. Writes slowly on the politics of human rights. Posts slower. London • Cambridge • Pretoria • Geneva
@lauragreenfield.bsky.social
Director, Services and Engagement, at Cambridge University Library @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
@helenclough.bsky.social
Senior Library Manager at the Open University Library interested in relationship management and customer services in HE libraries, and supporting distance and online learners. She/her
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social
The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections. https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/ https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
@camdiglib.bsky.social
Explore Cambridge Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
@belindadodson.bsky.social
Semi-lapsed academic. Research interests in migration, gender, and development; mainly Southern Africa. Lives in Ottawa, Canada. Previously Eswatini, Zambia, South Africa, UK.
@dyzenhaus.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. PhD from Cornell. Studies land reform, agriculture, colonialism and elections in South Africa and Kenya. www.dyzenhaus.com
@aleshaporisky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at NIU, PhD University of Toronto. Studying social policy, cash transfers, and state-society relations in East Africa.
@jeffahlman.bsky.social
Professor of History and Gwendolen Carter Professor of African Studies at Smith College. Writes on Ghana, African decolonization, and African transnationalism.
@mininghistory.bsky.social
Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa. More on https://duncan.money Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
@alexjwhite.bsky.social
Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.
@dadakim.bsky.social
Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics. Editor in Chief, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
@davidreiss.bsky.social
International Relations, VfB, social democracy, rattsport and whatever else crosses my mind. Working on German-South African relations. Gebürtiger Stuttgarter Schwabe in Dresden & Nordschwarzwald. Antifaschist. #notjustsad
@profjslewis.bsky.social
Associate Prof. at Washington State University. Research focuses on African politics, political psychology, conflict processes, and antisemitism.
@floriangkern.bsky.social
Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Government, Univ of Essex, comparative politics in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; Batigols founding member; ESRC-fund. MCCRA https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
@cmarkthiesen.bsky.social
Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History. “Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
@miauys.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UCT working on a more-than-human history of South Africa’s National Zoological Garden.
@mbechseeberg.bsky.social
Associate professor, political science, Aarhus University. Elections, authoritarianism, democratization, women in politics, Africa. https://meretebechseeberg.weebly.com/
@tlyons.bsky.social
Professor Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Student of civil wars and contentious politics, particularly in the Horn of Africa
@elliegadjanova.bsky.social
Political scientist at Exeter. Ethnic politics, political communication, and social media in Africa. Writing a book on cross-ethnic outreach in highly diverse states.
@verasimoneschulz.bsky.social
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
@adriangallagher.bsky.social
Professor in Global Security and Mass Atrocity Prevention, University of Leeds. Currently fleeing Musk & writing a book on the Central African Republic. I make music and art in my spare time.
@daughterofsahel.bsky.social
Pan-African • Kora music devote • Professoring & researching about conservation & development in West Africa & South Eastern U.S•
@meerakat.bsky.social
South-South relations; Mobilities; Afro-Asia; India in Africa; Africans in India; West Africa; Voodoo/Vodun. Third Worlder. Cat person.
@abotebuno.bsky.social
Researching the political economy of money and finance in Ghana
@darren.africandefence.net
Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence) Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa. Email: dolivier@africandefence.net Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/9yYQ7ONQJ8KYa71byz4avvZuSICtMLWim0AlDOYqYwwZhOSZaVpGKLUzYPBqrJAM
@judithverweijen.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Utrecht University. Researching militarization, resource conflict & violence at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology & geography. Focus on eastern DRC.
@gregordobler.bsky.social
Anthropology, History, Southern Africa. Work, labour and leisure. Some politics. Works @unifreiburg.bsky.social .
@sarahfluck.bsky.social
Africa Correspondent Swiss Public Radio SRF @srfnews.ch. MSc African Politics via @SOAS; BA Journalism via @IAM_Winterthur and @mazluzern. Web: sarahfluck.com
@sedefaslitopal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Ripon College, studying conflict processes, rebel group behavior and the Middle East and African Politics.
@sahistorymatt.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee. Come for the African history, stay for sporting enthusiasm, music, travel talk & musings on South Africa
@emorier.bsky.social
Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
@brianjapeterson.bsky.social
Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
@morningafrika.bsky.social
Asso. prof IR, #HornofAfrica #securitystudies Auteur:Djibouti: La diplomatie de géant d'un petit Etat; Géopolitique de l'Afrique; Pourquoi l'Afrique est entrée dans l histoire (sans nous)?
@jasonmosley.bsky.social
Northeast Africa & Red Sea. Frontiers & state visions, regional political economy & security. Works at @rvinews.bsky.social Views my own.
@leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
Still finding my way into bsky | Currently PhDing @UvA_AISSR | West Africa/Senegal - EU, b/orders, colonial continuities | She/her | Somewhere between Brx, Brln, Dkr - mostly in a library |🍉.
@srd.bsky.social
Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. I curate the afripolsky feed for those studying or interested in African Politics (broadly conceived). Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
@nuzo.bsky.social
Writer of African Speculative Fiction. https://linktr.ee/nuzoonoh