Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...

I am pleased to share my last article: “Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis: Patriarchy, anti-gender backlash & the postcolonial carceral state”on the blog of the Review of African Political Economy roape.net/2026/03/17/b...

Hundreds of migrants are vanishing in the Mediterranean. Authorities are withholding information The beginning of 2026 ranks as the deadliest start to any year for people trying to cross the Mediterranean. But the true count may be even higher.

The deadly violence of xenophobia.

"Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as 'invisible shipwrecks' but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know."

Bodies under surveillance in Senegal’s governance crisis | ROAPE Let us be honest about what happened on 12 March 2026. Senegal's National Assembly voted to raise the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations to ten years and to criminalise the "promotion" or ...

Indispensable reading by Rama Salla Dieng on concurrent crises in Senegal, fabricated at home and abroad, that led to the recent anti-LGBTQ law.

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Hundreds Missing in “Invisible Shipwrecks” in the Mediterranean

UN data shows 682 migrants missing in the Mediterranean by March 16/2026, the deadliest start to a year, as Italy, Tunisia & Malta restrict information on rescues & shipwrecks.

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TIEMOKO Garan Kouyaté (1902-1944)

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Tiempo Garan Kouyaté, né à Ségou en 1902, mort dans un camp de concentration en Autriche en 1944.

Le militant Kouyaté face à l’industriel François Coty : il y a un siècle, les racines coloniales du fascisme L’obsession du riche homme d’affaires d’extrême droite à combattre le syndicaliste anticolonial Tiémoko Garan Kouyaté a d’étranges résonnances contemporaines, relève l’historienne Madina Thiam.

✍️ Le militant Kouyaté face à l’industriel François Coty : il y a un siècle, les racines coloniales du fascisme

L’obsession du riche homme d’affaires d’extrême droite à combattre le syndicaliste anticolonial a d’étranges résonances contemporaines, relève l’historienne Madina Thiam.

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In The Future That Was, I document how Intnl Women’s Day was key for women fighting against neofascist states in Iran, Algeria, Pakistan forty yrs ago

Women took to the streets, faced down the police, and were beaten/arrested fighting authoritarian laws

Solidarity on International Women’s Day ✊🏽

See Irvin Ibarguen's important book "Caught in the Current: Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940-1980," just published @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968958...

🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)

Oh thanks Peter🙂 that's very kind. Glad it resonated.

Looking forward to reading this!

Merci Laurent!

I'm pleased to share my latest article, available open access.

I wrote about the long aftermath of a nineteenth-century war in central Mali, and how an intimate approach to historical research and writing can yield new understandings of time and space in African history.

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L’œuvre en kanouri d'al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria) "L’œuvre en kanouri d'al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria)" published on 23 Jun 2025 by Brill.

avec un clin d'oeil au beau livre d'Ari Awagana et @camillelefebvre.bsky.social paru cette année, qui est *checks notes* disponible en accès libre donc je sais pas ce que vous attendez😤

L’œuvre en kanouri d'al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, un savant du Borno (Niger-Nigéria) share.google/iUY8IzKQ72Uz...

Du Sahel à la Palestine, un monde globalisé depuis au moins sept siècles Les liens entre Bamako, Zinder et Jérusalem ou Gaza ont une histoire ancienne, tissés par les religieux et les intellectuels, puis renforcés par les mouvements de solidarité anti-impérialiste dans la ...

Dans ma chronique pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur la genèse d'un monument que les Bamakois connaissent bien, la fresque Mohammed al-Durah, et au delà, sur les voyageurs dont les itinéraires et les imaginaires ont connecté le Sahel à la Palestine depuis des siècles

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Le séminaire Antiracismes et sciences sociales reprend avec un très beau programme!

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Interested in recent scholarship on #Mali? Check out this #OA piece by @thiamm.bsky.social, reviewing books by Richard Roberts and the late Moussa Sow: bit.ly/430cvRx

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Photographie des étudiants à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire vers 1900

En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.

A special moment that never gets old, unboxing a new book after years of work on it. Please help me welcome The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

I’m in NYC for June so was lucky enough to attend an interesting panel at The People’s Forum this evening for @versobooks.bsky.social’s new series on Southern Questions with Adom Getachew, @thiamm.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, & Adéwálé Májà-Pearce. Lots to think about and even more to read 🔥

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre.

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950.

Bamako, 1959. Des militantes de la première heure livrent un réquisitoire à la fois contre le joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pourtant un exemple à suivre

Tribune de‪ @thiamm.bsky.social‬ ⤵️

Une conception du panafricanisme et de l'anti-impérialisme bien différente de celle, opportuniste à mon avis, portée par des hommes en armes aujourd'hui.

plus de liens vers des sources et images/sons d'archives dans l'article. glissez dans mes DM si vous n'y avez pas accès.

On a beaucoup à apprendre de cette fenêtre de la fin des années 1950 où les femmes africaines s'organisent politiquement, dans un cadre démocratique et inclusif, malgré les débats et les désaccords.

Réactivons les luttes féministes et panafricaines des années 1950, par Madina Thiam Bamako, 1959. Au premier congrès de l’union des femmes de l’ouest africain, des militantes livrent un réquisitoire contre le double joug colonial et masculin. Largement oubliée, cette histoire est pou...

Dans ce billet pour @liberation.fr je reviens sur une époque où les femmes d'Afrique de l'ouest étaient engagées localement et à l'international

Et sur un événement fondateur: le congrès de l'Union des Femmes de l'Ouest Africain, juillet 1959, Bamako

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