Elisa Prosperetti

By NTU’s Dean of the school of humanities!

Lumumba will forever be a masterpiece

Very happy to share our conversation about Nana’s beautiful new book! @NanaOseiOpare @NewBooksAfrica open.spotify.com/episode/1R32Lf…

Frederick Cooper on Decolonizing Decolonization: "Appeals to “decolonize” now range widely, from decolonizing the university to decolonizing Russia. This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do.": cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Thrilled to have Alden Young join Modern Intellectual History as an editor. His work focuses on Modern Africa, Modern Middle East, Histories of the Red Sea, History of economic development and the social sciences, and American empire cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Had a wonderful conversation last week with @philjanzen about his great new book, An Unformed Map! newbooksnetwork.com/philip-janzen-…

“Only within a patriarchical structure is maternity the only social power open to women.” —reading Audre Lorde and thinking about tradwife influencers

We are proud to spotlight "Crossing Borders, Counting Coins" by Domenico Cristofaro of @Unibo and Seiji Nakao of @Africa_Kyoto_U from our #OpenAccess issue 53.1. It focusses on the consequences of colonial fiscal policies on cross-border African monetary practices.

Working on the history of anti colonial thought and education in Africa? Join us in Paris June 29-July 2! Deadline: 1 Nov

Check out my conversation with Marcia about her great new book on Mozambican and Angolan migration to East Germany and back! open.spotify.com/episode/20KEXv…

Does anyone have the original, 1955 présence africaine edition of aimé césaire’s discours sur le colonialisme? I need to double check that a quote I am citing indeed appears on p.15!

Had a lot of fun talking to @sfcdaly about his new book, soldier’s paradise. Even got a garibaldi reference in! open.spotify.com/episode/6DcX31…

L’Académie française a sorti la 9ème édition de son dictionnaire ! Waouh ! le dernier date de 1935, ils ont auront donc mis un peu moins de cent ans à faire un dictionnaire! 😱 Mais parlons du contenu, on va passer en revue quelques perles... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…

Trump: “I have concepts of a plan.” On his third presidential run.

It was a pleasure to review Alice Weimers’s thoughtful history of the ways that “development fictions” have been used in northern rural Ghana during the 20th century @AmHistReview doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rh…

@csschmitt1 I am asking these same questions and someone who is very successful and no BS told me: the second book doesn’t need to be good, it just needs to be done. Then you can take your time and really write what you want with institutional pressures out of the way.

Hey historians! Any tips for writing the second book? I've got something that I am *really* excited to get working on, but wondered how to get it done without the structure and time that the PhD program gave to the dissertation/first book. Thanks for tips and for sharing!

Team Ghana wearing kente during the 1964 Olympics ceremony in Tokyo

@DukePress @sfcdaly “Look elsewhere for moral clarity.” This is a thrilling introduction that torches ideas of moral sanctimony in favor of writing history.

"Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire" by @sfcdaly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Read the introduction now on our website. ow.ly/m8oN50SJcEl #PostcolonialStudies

Enjoying being back in the archives, although somewhat jealous of those at the beach @UNESCO