Historian of European colonialism and modern Africa @UniofOxford & @WadhamOxford. Working on Maasai history, anti-colonialism, infrastructure, Black Germany.
Oxford, England
Joined November 2021
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New graduate course at Oxford on “Histories and Cultures of Colonisation”, including a paper on German memory culture. Applications are now open. Please apply!
ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…
There is a deeper ideological implication to this: colonial violence is normalised as a form of oppression, whereas National Socialist violence is exceptionalised as an unprecedented form of mass murder. This distinction marginalises the genocidal dimension of colonial violence.
Die neue Ausstellung im DHM "Umstrittene Verwandtschaft" fängt schon mit einer Frechheit an: hier der industrielle Massenmord, dort die "harmlose" Peitsche. Anstatt Sensibilität für Gewaltverbrechen zu schaffen, wird schon am Eingang hierarchisiert und der Ton gesetzt. Beschämend
🚨 Are you researching pastoral development schemes and their purported failures in Africa? We'd love to hear from you! 🚨
Submit an abstract to our #ECAS2027 panel, co-organised with @saita_bau!
🔗 ecasconference.org/2027/prog…
📅 Deadline: 4 January 2027
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Launch day for Blackness in Interwar Germany! It looks absolutely smashing inside too—huge thanks to the team at @HurstPublishers for the beautiful production work!!
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Während der Kanzler „russischen Einfluss“ beschwört…
Wichtige Berater von Netanjahu hatten Kontakt zu CDU-Politikern in Brandenburg und Thüringen. Außerdem organisierten sie Unterstützung für den hessischen Gesetzesvorschlag zur Leugnung des Existenzrechts Israels. Recherche von Yossi Bartal und mir
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African Studies Visiting Fellowship (for scholars based in Africa) at the Bodleian Libraries at @UniofOxford Deadline: 27 November 2026, more information below bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellow…
Please join us for next week’s event! Lauren Brown will present part of her PhD dissertation on the visual history of Mau Mau. The talk will be held virtually, but I will be at the African Studies Centre, so please do stop by if you are in Oxford.
Please join us on 20 October for our next seminar.
Lauren Brown (Nottingham) will present:
'Visualising Violence: Atrocity, Counterinsurgency and the Spectacle of the Lari Massacre'
*Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration:
events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event…
#Kenya
ALT Flyer for the seminar, including abstract and speaker bio.
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Michaelmas 2026 term card is ready. We hope to see you at the seminar. Details and webinar registration will be online at: events.ox.ac.uk/events/searc…
ALT List of speakers and presentation titles for Michaelmas term 2026, and contact details for conveners.
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"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?"
Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
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2 Maasai men have been taking care of an alleged stray baby giraffe for almost 1 week.
The giraffe feels very secure with them.
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Gaza City’s port was a hub for fishing and tourism before the genocide. Then Israel destroyed it. Al Jazeera’s @MaramGaza shows what’s left.
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Garton Ash: I experienced it personally (in the 1990s), though less painfully than my East German friends – for instance, when a third-rate West German academic was given a senior position at a university in the east and then went around with that air of dismissive condescension.
We are heading for a world of disorder and wars… in case you missed it, read my cheerful interview with Der Spiegel - also about how best to combat populism…
timothygartonash.substack.co…
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“After that day, I became more scared of white men than I was of lions.”
Kenyan survivors seek accountability for alleged abuses linked to British military training, challenging immunity that has kept the cases from court.
Read here aje.news/c13jdj
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For me, as a Palestinian from Gaza who survived the ongoing genocide, when I look at the rubble of homes on Google Maps, I am not seeing only the remains of buildings, which from far look like a decaying wall.
I am seeing the remains of people whose bodies were crushed beneath walls and ceilings they painted with their own hands.
I see children’s toys. Books. Backpacks. Coloring pencils. An unfinished meal. Blankets. Shoes. Photo frames of grandparents whose grandchildren never met. An old key to a home in Yaffa or Haifa.
I can also hear the last words of a broadcaster on the radio before the news occurred, before the radio was broken and the family crushed.
No breaking news there. No news at all.
Bremen is to become Germany’s official memorial site for colonialism tagesspiegel.de/politik/wolf…
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John M MacKenzie, the founding editor of the Manchester University Press Studies in Inperialism series that i have the honour of co-editing, has sadly passed away. Our tributes here:
manchesteruniversitypress.co…
