Botanical gardens at Université Cheikh Anta Diop 🌴💚

There's a lot of talk about equitable research partnerships but are they truly transformative? DSA webinar on 30 May will explore what this means by looking at the Africa Charter for Transformative Research Collaborations. Join us: devstud.org.uk/2024/04/30/dsa…

We are hiring! Cadbury Research Fellowship in African Studies, 18 months from Jan '25. Any discipline (arts/ humanities/social sciences) research focus on any region of sub-Saharan Africa Africa Research Inst @Africa_IAI Journal of Southern African Studies African Studies Association AfricanStudiesUK jobs.ac.uk/job/DHL472/cad…

Trinity College Cambridge, the University of Cambridge's wealthiest constituent college, has decided to divest from all arms companies.

‘Alice Munro’s genius, as she imagines what is going on inside the closed worlds of individual lives, has to do with her exceptional openness to other people’s words, to the shapes of their understanding and their ways of seeing.’ Tessa Hadley, in 2007: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/…

🚨Three-year African History job🚨Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellowship in Global (African) History (Fixed Term) at University of Cambridge jobs.ac.uk/job/DHP204/isa…

That's a lot of emergency food!

The 2023 Strathern Lecture is taking place today with Professor Jason Hickel. socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/annual-… This week, be sure to view previous Strathern Lectures published in the Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology with code STRATHERN24: conta.cc/3QwtPbp Liana Chua

The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy. Anna Wood on the early weeks of Bassirou Diomaye Faye's presidency: africasacountry.com/2024/05/diomay…

Diomaye’s first weeks | Anna Wood | Africa Is a Country 'The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.' africasacountry.com/2024/05/diomay…

📅 Save the date for a workshop on 25 June with DSA and EADI 💫 ⚡️ The workshop will reflect on the current state of development studies 🔥 Registration open now! Find out more here ⤵️ buff.ly/4c8CxWB

'It is important to record that the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' poster was never mass-produced until 2008.' In The Ministry of Nostalgia, by Owen Hatherley

Regarded as Ghana’s first photojournalist and a pioneering photographer in Africa, James Barnor has spent over six decades capturing pivotal moments through his lens. Now 95, his journey is being celebrated in Accra with exhibitions showcasing his iconic work.

Kenya unrest: Ruto awakened class politics that now threatens to engulf him bit.ly/3XIrJKa 💻 Peter Lockwood, The University of Manchester #Politics #KenyaProtests #RejectFinanceBill2024

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A nice blog by Anna Wood about our recent Development Studies Association EADI Journal of Development Studies (JDS) conference - 'Unity in Diversity? The Future of Development Studies: devstud.org.uk/2024/08/27/the…

A workshop held at King's College London for EADI's 50th anniversary reflected on the current state of the field, with a focus on universality & decolonisation. Here Anna Wood writes on 'The case of the CFA franc and a case for South-centred scholarship' buff.ly/3MDjd8j