Devon E. A. Curtis

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Fascinating! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

Kudos to these brave women, and to the people doing the research behind this case www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Yolande Bouka #QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

The Hierarchies and Exclusions of Changing Regional and Global Orders: The Rwenzururu Movement and its (In)Visibility at the United Nations

I really like this new blog post by Yusra Abdullahi - on her experiences in postcolonial archives, the silencing of minority rights, and the roles of the UN and states.

changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/hier...

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists f

Newskies! My book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Future features 87 images & an unshrinking prose style. Not a happy story, but this is the 21st century after all.

The book examines the twinned residues of mining & racial capitalism in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

I'm looking forward to watching this: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

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