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Hello! Please join @icahdq @EthnicityRace for a professional development workshop for early career scholars on publishing. The speakers are Prof. @HananBadr Dr @drsharonomotoso Prof. @hwasser Prof. Africanus Diedong Please share! Register here: bit.ly/icaworkshop2022

“We cannot write in foreign languages unspoken and unknown by peasants and workers in our communities and pretend that we are writing for…those peasants and workers.” blackagendareport.com/memoir-making-…

Reclaiming Language: A Conversation With Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Shortly before his death, The Nation spoke with the Kenyan writer about his most recent essay collection, Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Renowned Kenyan author and academic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87, family says; he had health issues including kidney problems and limited mobility.

Now experts are warning that this trend might lead to the extinction of indigenous languages. Renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o says abandoning one’s indigenous language is tantamount to enslavement. presstv.ir/Detail/2021/06…

“It has been all in the interest of an oppressing social force to control the consciousness of the dominated by all the cultural, educational, communicational, literary and aesthetic means at their disposal.” -Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Writers in Politics, 2009

"Culture develops within the process of a people wrestling with their natural and social environment. They struggle with nature. They struggle with one another. They evolve a way of life embodied in their institutions and certain practices." -Ngūgī wa Thiong'o, Moving the Centre

It is the final triumph of a system of domination when the dominated start singing its virtues. ~Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in The Language of African Literature

In exactly 7 months, my first monograph will be published. ✨️📚 😊 On the other side of the vehicle is Zogbeli, the neighborhood I was born and raised in. Thanks to @RutgersUPress for helping me bring Dagbaŋ and Ghana media histories to the world. Ti diya! 💃🏿

“To control people’s wealth… the domination of a people’s language by the languages of the colonizing nations are crucial to the domination of the mental universe of the colonized.” -Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the mind: The politics of language in African literature.

"It’s time we moved beyond the fiction of the decolonised, transformative and-or internationalised university. It is not enough to welcome the continent through the front gate, only to relegate its scholars to the back corridors of precarity and silence." universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.ph…

It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o passed away earlier today. I am me because of him in so many ways, as his child, scholar and writer. I love him - I am not sure what tomorrow will bring without him here. I think that is all I have to say for now.

A great baobab has fallen. 💔 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's ideas shaped my scholarship in unimaginable ways. He walked so that many of us could fly. Sending love to @MukomaWaNgugi and his family. 🤎🪻 What a legend! May he receive a resounding welcome in the ancestral realm. 🙏🏿

"It’s time we moved beyond the fiction of the decolonised, transformative and-or internationalised university. It is not enough to welcome the continent through the front gate, only to relegate its scholars to the back corridors of precarity and silence." universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.ph…

"We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers." If accepted, poets will be paid $150/poem. Deadline: MAY 31 adimagazine.submittable.com/submit?mc_cid=…

Africans lost nearly $70M to denied visa applications to Europe in 2024 amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/21…

My lab is recruiting a postdoc fellow to characterize new biochemical pathways that control taurine and glucose metabolism. Email me at wei.wei2@wisc.edu to apply! Please help RT🙏 @longlabstanford @JudithSimcox @UWBiochem

The Call for Papers for our Fall 2025 Workshop series is still OPEN! To apply complete this form by May 31st: forms.gle/uyUqaaJhnbraMN… You can find more information here on the CfP: apsg.work/cfp/

25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it/a… #unibo

Chasing sunsets 🌇 🌞

In this article, we frame the solidarity with Traoré as a bold stand against imperialism—and proof that a new African spirit is rising. #WalkWithTraoré #AfricaMustUnite #HandsOffAfrica pambazuka.org/Solidarity-Pro…