Vincent Hiribarren

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Come and work with me! Two home-fee scholarships on Nigerian history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

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Two more PhD scholarships at @kingshistory.bsky.social: focussing on different aspects of Nigerian history, and working with my excellent colleague @bixhiribarren.bsky.social :

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM397/p...

La guerre du #Cameroun peut maintenant être enseignée en dernière année du lycée en France : eduscol.education.fr/document/692... Bravo @kramondy.bsky.social

Pleased to share my new African Security article: Parallels between vigilantes and Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin. Here I argue both are home-grown products of state weakness, sharing social worlds which explains vigilante's effectiveness and associated risks.

GitHub - fmadore/zmo-ai-pipelines Contribute to fmadore/zmo-ai-pipelines development by creating an account on GitHub.

See the great work done by @fmadore.bsky.social here: A collection of easy-to-use #AI tools for processing documents and audio files. These tools use Google's #Gemini AI to automatically transcribe, extract text, and generate summaries github.com/fmadore/zmo-...

I have a piece on the Islamic history of Europe in the new issue of The New Statesman: 'Islam is Part of European History': www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... via @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @lsehy.bsky.social

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Who were the Vascones? Contrary to legend, when Charlemagne invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 778, he didn’t fight many Arabs. Instead, the Royal Frankish Annals inform us that as his armies crossed the Pyrenees, he ‘subj…

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Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...

"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.

Nigeria-États-Unis. « Certains refusent d’affronter la complexité du réel » - Entretien Sur quoi reposent les affirmations de Donald Trump selon lesquelles il existerait un « génocide » des chrétiens au Nigeria ? Jusqu’où le président états-unien est-il prêt à aller et pourquoi ? (…)

afriquexxi.info/Nigeria-Etat... par @vincentfoucher.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for a new book from British Academy Publishing titled "The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms: The Tomb ibn al-Mukhtar of the Songhay Empire and the Tarikh al-fattash of the Caliphate of Hamdullahi," authored by Mauro Nobili, Zachary Wright, and A. Diakite. The image shows the book cover featuring an ancient manuscript page.

A new volume in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, The Chronicles of Two West African Kingdoms presents a new reading of West African history from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries based on close analysis of Arabic manuscripts from Timbuktu and other regions.

https://bit.ly/3Jeb8cm

Read the new OA article by Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms, and Clodomir Santana on #archives, #DigitalBias, #AI, and the production of historical narratives:

bit.ly/4q4UGvD

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

On Wednesday!

Nouvel entretien sur le podcast Nota Bene à propos de l'histoire de la colonisation du Sahel en compagnie de Camille Lefebvre. Détail d'un dessin de 1885 issu d'un numéro du journal "L'Illustration". On y voit Otto von Bismarck, alors chancelier d'Allemagne, coupant un gâteau sur lequel est écrit « Afrique ». Il est posé sur une table autour de laquelle sont assis les représentants d'autres puissances européennes.

Dans le dernier entretien disponible sur le podcast, on revient sur une triste histoire avec Camille Lefebvre, celle de la colonisation du Sahel. Alors comment cela s'est-il passé ?
https://music.amazon.fr/podcasts/0303c8b3-c2a2-4aa0-9543-af3252c87fc3/nota-bene?refMarker=null

Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement - CNRS Editions Empires - Une histoire sociale de l'environnement (EAN13 : 9782271151889) édité par CNRS Editions - Qu’est-ce que les empires et le colonial font aux environnements qu’ils rencontrent, conquièrent pui...

Empires. Une histoire sociale de l'environnement. Sortie du livre aujourd'hui, après deux ans de travail avec le camarade Antonin Plarier !
Inde, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzanie, Mozambique, Zambie... des textes pionniers traduits et commentés en français.
www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/hi...

Email Olivia.Wyatt@ed.ac.uk or Meleisa.Ono-George@history.ox.ac.uk to present online or in-person

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field.

📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online
📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025
⏰ 17:30
🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland"
👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only) at King's College London Explore a PhD Studentship: Wordsworth Blackwell Mather PhD Studentship (UK Home Students only). Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

Come and work with me! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOR768/p...

Promotional image for a new book titled "Great Sogolon: Mandé Epic from the Bondo Birds of Fadama (Guinea)" from British Academy Publishing, featuring a cover image of a traditional mask.

New in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series, ‘Great Sogolon’s House: The Epic of Manden According to the Condé of Fadama (Guinea)’. This epically narrated transcription and translation of the Sunjata epic is rich with detail and rooted in cultural memory.

Discover more ⬇️
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📻 Listen to Dr Vincent Hiribarren on BBC Focus on Africa discussing Emmanuel Macron's response to France's colonial era crimes in Cameroon ⬇️

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A qui appartient une pierre tombée du ciel? Le débat est relancé après la récente vente à New York de la plus grande météorite martienne jamais retrouvée, aujourd'hui revendiquée par le Niger. L'article : ➡️ u.afp.com/SQZ6

⚠️ Tout a basculé en 48h, avec une pression tout azimut sur Netanyahu contre la famine, pour le cessez-le-feu et pour la reconnaissance de l'État palestinien:

[on X @theKanemBorno made a great thread👇]

A Hidden Story in African Linguistics & History

In 1904, two scholars met at Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo:
Al-Hajj Musa, a Kanuri scholar from Borno and Rudolf Prietze, a German linguist.

They collaborated for 10 years, producing hundreds of pages in Kanuri.

Very happy to see @abdulwando.bsky.social's research on #aid in #Borno published!

'Digital Humanities #DH and #AI in #AfricanStudies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Decolonial Perspectives'. Double panel today at #ECAS2025 organised with @fmadore.bsky.social www.ecasconference.org/2025/

Journal of Digital History The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.

What can hacked websites tell us about the history of the web?
From online activism to digital vandalism, political web defacements were part of shaping the early internet. We just published a new article in the JDH diving into this fascinating and underexplored archive. journalofdigitalhist...

Migration and Diaspora Identity in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900–1970 - Boydell and Brewer This book uncovers the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano, the largest commercial and administrative city in nort...

Well done to Rasheed Olaniyi! boydellandbrewer.com/978184701428...

• Défendre quoiqu’il en coûte le droit international, s’opposer à l’annexion (Ukraine), au nettoyage ethnique (Gaza) et aux guerres "préventives" (Iran) c’est sauvegarder la possibilité d’un monde habitable 🌏 mais c’est aussi sauver la possibilité d’un projet européen 🇪🇺.