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Some good news in a world of increasingly bad news.

My friend Mnqobi Ngubane's powerfully directed and narrated dive into the Labour Tenant question in South Africa - Mathonga Elizwe - won the best short documentary at the South African Film and Television Awards.

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I also thoroughly enjoyed my fieldwork in Nepal, which involved data-collection of course, but more importantly plentiful momos and long calming walks in the Himalayas⛰️!

It was a real pleasure working with Daniel, a terrific comparative politics scholar @polisciatnu.bsky.social (my graduate department!), on this.

Our research highlights the role of diffusion, and particularly how avoiding the blunders of a prior group, can help in securing post-conflict survival and a transition to party politics.

Learning from Someone Else’s War: Insurgent Leadership Style, Diffusion and Comparative Insights on Rebel Group Trajectories from Peru and Nepal Why do some rebel organisations collapse at the end of war while others endure and metamorphose? Based on a comparison of Peru’s Shining Path and Nepal’s Maoists, this article leverages 50 original...

Along with Daniel Enincas (@polisciatnu.bsky.social), here's my latest article in @civilwarsjournal.bsky.social. In this piece, we explore divergent rebel group fates drawing on an underexplored comparison of Shining Path in Peru and the Maoists in Nepal: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read this book during sabbatical last year, and also really appreciated these tips! A key antidote to the constant (often artificial) pressures of contemporary academic life.

Young people from Peru to Madagascar to Nepal — furious with political elites reaping the spoils of privilege and corruption — are rising up to demand change, write Erica Chenoweth and @matthewcebul.bsky.social. Read "Why Gen-Z Is Rising" in our new January issue!

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Beneath Suluhu’s blackout, a blanket of violence Tanzania’s Election Day erupted into protest, an internet blackout, and bloodshed. When the internet was restored, 37 readers told us what really happened. These are their accounts.

Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.

Has Tanzania Reached Its Breaking Point? | Journal of Democracy President Hassan promised Tanzanians freedom, transparency, and reform. Instead, she has delivered repression, violence, and arrests as she bars anyone who dares challenge her.

Great analysis of the situation in Tanzania by Dan Paget

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Transitions Magazine is coming out with an issue entirely dedicated to Sudan soon with essays, memoir, and short fiction by Rogaia Abusharaf, Jamal Mahjoub, Fatin Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Al, Wagas Elsadig, Suzi Mirghani, and David Mikhail.

Gender Differences in Economics Seminars (Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...

“Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men. This holds when controlling for characteristics of the presenter, paper, and audience. Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters.”

Trump wants to bring even more white Afrikaners to the U.S. This White House program bumps out thousands of refugees who have provisional approval to emigrate.

The Trump administration is poised to scale up the Afrikaner refugee program in a big way.

One problem? It's not clear that many Afrikaners want to be "refugees" (yes, even those that are already in the US).

My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social :

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#KeepEyesOnSudan

What to Know About the 'Gen Z' Protests Around the World Within the past month, the protests have toppled one country’s government and contributed to the dissolution of another.

Gen Z WORLD PROTESTS DASHBOARD
1/5: MOROCCO: Anti-government protests driven by frustration over lavish spending on the 2030 World Cup at the expense of public services like education and healthcare, leading to fatalities and arrests🧵

A wide range of academic organizations has signed a letter calling on the Department of Education to reinstate the Title VI program. For those not familiar, Title VI funds foreign language and area studies programs. The funding has prepared generations of students for international work and research

🧵 Fellow academics in N. America if a Sudanese student has been admitted to your graduate program MA or PhD please please do your best to help them gather the necessary paperwork for their visa. So many are getting into great programs but (1/3)

I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!

A magazine cover featuring abstract art and the title “the war about everything in Sudan”.

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

Heartiest congratulations, Alex! This is wonderful news 🥳

In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.

No one ever asks nonfiction writers about style so I just wanted to share 2 style points, and to thank @hammerandhope.bsky.social for an editorial process that absolutely got it. Writing is always collaborative even with one name on the byline and editors are great.
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So excited to read and assign this!

Ugh, so so infuriating. And also so familiar!

10 essential reads on African politics for summer 2025. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

Continuing the spirit of the African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular started by @texasinafrica.bsky.social & me 10 years ago, Kelechi Amakoh has curated a list of 10 recent African Politics books for @goodauth.bsky.social that he thinks we should all read:

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10 essential reads on African politics for summer 2025. From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

Here are 10 essential reads on African politics for this summer.

From cultural revival to election campaign violence, these books offer a rich dive into how politics works – and who it works for across Africa.

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Ruto Once Courted Kenya’s Youth. Now He’s Trying to Silence Them Instead of listening to protesters’ grievances, Ruto’s government is repressing them. That’s a bad sign for the health of Kenya’s democracy.

Instead of listening to protesters’ grievances, Ruto’s government is repressing them.

That’s a bad sign for the health of Kenya’s democracy, @nanjala.bsky.social‬ writes.

nation DAILY©NATION Black Wednesday: Nine killed, 400 injured as protests rock 27 counties Nine people were killed, about 400 injured, and 61 arrested on Wednesday as at least 27 counties witnessed protests marking the first anniversary of the June 25, 2024, demonstrations that saw youth protesters storm Parliament.

The final tally of yesterday’s protests in #Kenya. Nine killed, 400 injured and 61 arrests. All killed by the police because the president will not listen to the young people who put him in power.

Playing with Fire Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Playing with Fire

"Deserves close attention and sustained engagement from anyone interested in the complex relationship between violence and democracy."

Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India by Aditi Malik, Out Now

#ComparativePolitics #PoliSky 💙📚

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Playing with fire: parties and political violence in Kenya and India Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Erik Cleven's research on Kenya informed much of thinking on party-driven violence. Very grateful for his review of my book in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. The review is below, and the book can be found in all the places one goes to for academic books: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V6DHK...

We are still accepting applications for our fully funded Writing Workshop on International Politics in Africa, focused on scholars based in Africa (held in Nairobi in 2026). Feel free to apply or forward to your networks!