An honourable and humble Kenyan of great courage. Pumzika pahali pema peponi, Pheroze.

Bethwel Ogot: Scholar who reshaped African history dies at 95 Bethwel Ogot, a prominent Kenyan historian and scholar, has died at the age of 95.

Bethwell Ogot was an imaginative and rigorous authority in oral history, a stringent critic of ethnonationalist and imperialist historiography, a gifted essayist, and a remarkably generous thinker. I hope living and future historians will do his legacy justice www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/natio...

'Visiting Bye-Fellowship is tenable for twelve months from 1 October 2025 (or such other date as may be agreed...). The Visiting Bye-Fellowship carries a stipend of £30,000, paid in monthly instalments, and a small research allowance, currently £950 per annum.'

Application deadline 28 Feb 25.

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South The Opportunity

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South: applications now sought from scholars with posts in the Global South, this year 2025-26 in arts and humanities only, for a one-year research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

'In the letter, made public on 10 February, Julia Black...says the “range of cutbacks we are seeing across universities is leading to a severe loss in UK capability".' Nearly 100 HEIs are “contracting or closing” social sciences, humanities & the arts disciplines “in the face of a financial crisis”.

An absolute privilige to meet H.E. Mbelwa Brighton Kairuki, Tanzania's High Commissioner to the UK, and be able to discuss our Superbugs project in partnership with RBA Initiative with him and his team.

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/internationa...

@superbugs.bsky.social @ambreenamanji.bsky.social

This is the Lanyi West African Ensemble of the School of Music, Cardiff University opening an Africa Research Showcase I organised last year. Students learn songs in several languages and study a range of instruments including djembe, dundun & bugarabu, improving their solo playing, musicianship.

Wonderful to see the newly refurbished building @britishacademy.bsky.social full of life www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/wr...

We had an excellent afternoon of discussion on The European Research Context for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

£60 million boost for creative industries to turbocharge growth Hundreds of creative businesses and projects across the UK are to receive government funding to help them grow as part of a major boost to the economy – marking the first step of the Government's Sect...

UKRI commits funding in response to the recommendation from the Prime Minister’s Council of Science and Technology that ‘public investment in R&D in the creative industries should reflect the size, economic contribution and future growth potential of the sector.’

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We are hiring a lecturer in Global Law at @uoelawschool.bsky.social to work on our recently launched Global Law LLB programme. Deadline to apply: 20 January. If successful, you will join an amazing team in one of the world's great law schools. 1/2 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

In his final engagement as @leverhulme.bsky.social Visiting Professor @cardiffuni.bsky.social Justice Joel Ngugi delivered a compelling talk to the APPG Access to Justice at the House of Lords today. Thanks to Lord William Bach for chairing and for extending a warm welcome to our speaker.

Fantastic news. Congratulations Diamond!

Sad to be leaving you, Abuja. This Harmatan season brought me many new friends and colleagues.

With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Black Europe event: Diamond Ashiagbor on EU integration and European colonialism Join us for a lunchtime talk in our [Black Europe] series with Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.

This term, I'm a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, and delighted to be giving a joint talk with UCL European Institute, part of their [Black Europe] series
Tues 10 Dec, 12-1.15pm, on EU integration & European colonialism. All welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...

Loved this elegant cast-iron bridge over the River Wye. Cast in Merthyr Tydfil and built in 1827, it's called the Bigsweir Bridge. Seen on a beautiful St Briavels circular walk.

Funding awarded for Kenyan Judicial Science master’s programme A Cardiff law professor will be instrumental in developing a pioneering Judicial Science curriculum in Africa following funding from the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF).

Very pleased that an award by #ISPFund is supporting continuing collaboration between Cardiff University, the
Kenya Judiciary Academy, Kabarak Law School, and the Katiba Institute to develop for the first time a Judicial Science Curriculum www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/28...

Humanities cuts ‘harbinger’ of bleak future for Dutch sector Area studies and languages at risk at Leiden University, with academics foreseeing humanities ‘apocalypse’

'According to the Leiden board, bachelor’s programmes in African studies and Latin American studies are at risk of being scrapped in their entirety....degree specialisations – including Arabic, Islamic studies, Turkish, Hebrew, Persian and modern Middle Eastern studies – may also be “reduced”. 1/2

Colleagues and students from across @cardiffuni.bsky.social heard our Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor Justice Joel Ngugi and Dr Aman Hingorani speak about the how legal ideas travel and the continuing importance of south-south dialogue.

A proud evening marking our distinguished alumna Pushpa Kapila Hingorani's connection with @cardiffuni.bsky.social in the presence of her family. Our inaugural Kapila Hingorani Dialogue honoured her lifelong commitment to access to justice and to fundamental rights.