The African Chronometric Dating Fund has for years been doing an amazing job supporting early career African archaeologists with dating their sites but they are struggling atm with fundraising, please do chip in if you can!
Donate to Support the African Chronometric Dating Fund (ACDF), organized by Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou
Africa is the cradle of humankind, where our species first ev… Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou needs your support for Support the African Chronometric Dating Fund (ACDF)
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January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The African Chronometric Dating Fund has for years been doing an amazing job supporting early career African archaeologists with dating their sites but they are struggling atm with fundraising, please do chip in if you can!
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Descubre cómo #ÁfricaSubsahariana ha sido y sigue siendo clave en la historia global en el curso “#ÁfricaEnMovimiento: hoy y siempre”.
📍 Madrid | 🗓️ 3–26 feb 2026 | 10 sesiones
@lacasaencendida.bsky.social
✍🏽 Inscríbete 👉 t.co/Imj1m0TQmR
📍 Madrid | 🗓️ 3–26 feb 2026 | 10 sesiones
@lacasaencendida.bsky.social
✍🏽 Inscríbete 👉 t.co/Imj1m0TQmR
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Descubre cómo #ÁfricaSubsahariana ha sido y sigue siendo clave en la historia global en el curso “#ÁfricaEnMovimiento: hoy y siempre”.
📍 Madrid | 🗓️ 3–26 feb 2026 | 10 sesiones
@lacasaencendida.bsky.social
✍🏽 Inscríbete 👉 t.co/Imj1m0TQmR
📍 Madrid | 🗓️ 3–26 feb 2026 | 10 sesiones
@lacasaencendida.bsky.social
✍🏽 Inscríbete 👉 t.co/Imj1m0TQmR
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🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy
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📢 NUEVO CURSO GEA
"África en movimiento: hoy y siempre”
👩🏽🏫 10 sesiones
🗓️ 3-26 de febrero '26
Objetivo: visibilizar y reflexionar sobre el protagonismo de las sociedades del África subsahariana en la historia global.
✍🏽 lacasaencendida.es/sociedad/africa-en-movimiento-hoy-y-siempre?eventId=3535
"África en movimiento: hoy y siempre”
👩🏽🏫 10 sesiones
🗓️ 3-26 de febrero '26
Objetivo: visibilizar y reflexionar sobre el protagonismo de las sociedades del África subsahariana en la historia global.
✍🏽 lacasaencendida.es/sociedad/africa-en-movimiento-hoy-y-siempre?eventId=3535
Africa En Movimiento Hoy Y Siempre | La Casa Encendida
La Casa Encendida es un centro social y cultural de la Fundación Montemadrid, un espacio abierto y dinámico, para todos los públicos, donde conviven algunas de las expresiones artísticas más vanguardi...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM
📢 NUEVO CURSO GEA
"África en movimiento: hoy y siempre”
👩🏽🏫 10 sesiones
🗓️ 3-26 de febrero '26
Objetivo: visibilizar y reflexionar sobre el protagonismo de las sociedades del África subsahariana en la historia global.
✍🏽 lacasaencendida.es/sociedad/africa-en-movimiento-hoy-y-siempre?eventId=3535
"África en movimiento: hoy y siempre”
👩🏽🏫 10 sesiones
🗓️ 3-26 de febrero '26
Objetivo: visibilizar y reflexionar sobre el protagonismo de las sociedades del África subsahariana en la historia global.
✍🏽 lacasaencendida.es/sociedad/africa-en-movimiento-hoy-y-siempre?eventId=3535
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Cuando los europeos somos los exóticos y extraños... Estupenda charla de Sirio Canós en Naukas Palma 2025
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Cuando los europeos somos los exóticos y extraños... Estupenda charla de Sirio Canós en Naukas Palma 2025
Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!
Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!
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📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
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WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
📣 Would you like to know more about what archaeology can tell us about colonialism in southern Senegal? Then you're in luck, Thierry Balde and I have just published an article about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kings, warriors and shifting towns: the struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–1960
The history of colonialism in the Kolda (or Upper Casamance) Region of southern Senegal is a complex one that is still only partially understood. Like most places in Sub-Saharan Africa, its histori...
www.tandfonline.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📣 Would you like to know more about what archaeology can tell us about colonialism in southern Senegal? Then you're in luck, Thierry Balde and I have just published an article about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you're an academic working at an EU institution, please take a minute to sign this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and GenocideU
*For researchers, science professionals, university staff and students based in Europe, Horizon Europe partner countries or affiliated to an EU institution*
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June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The Kansala Project on NPR!
A vanished kingdom comes alive in the songs of griots and a new archaeological dig
The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired archaeologists to excavate the kingdom's capital.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Kansala Project on NPR!
The Kansala Project featured in Voice of America!
Archaeologists use song to herald findings in Guinea-Bissau dig
Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record
www.voanews.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Kansala Project featured in Voice of America!
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2025 trae una nueva edición del #CIRA Curso de Introducción a la Realidad Africana #CIRA2025
Los y las mejores expertas para debatir juntas sobre
#política #economía #historia #RRII #cultura #Africa
👩🏫 60h · 20 sesiones · formato mixto
📆 21/01 - 05/03
🎁 ¡Regalazo para las navidades!
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Los y las mejores expertas para debatir juntas sobre
#política #economía #historia #RRII #cultura #Africa
👩🏫 60h · 20 sesiones · formato mixto
📆 21/01 - 05/03
🎁 ¡Regalazo para las navidades!
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December 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I'm so very happy to finally share the *sung* version of the Kansala 2024 excavation report, composed and performed by the amazing Nino Galissa. Subtitles on (unless you speak Mandinka)!
KANSALA KUMO: Kansala Archaeological Project sung report 2024
YouTube video by Sirio Canós Donnay
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October 9, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I'm so very happy to finally share the *sung* version of the Kansala 2024 excavation report, composed and performed by the amazing Nino Galissa. Subtitles on (unless you speak Mandinka)!
Have just been given an Amílcar Cabral pano de pinto and hat today in acknowledgement for our work in Kansala. Honoured beyond words. May as well retire now, cannot trump this!
September 23, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Have just been given an Amílcar Cabral pano de pinto and hat today in acknowledgement for our work in Kansala. Honoured beyond words. May as well retire now, cannot trump this!
Recording today the sung version of the Kansala excavation report with the amazing Nino Galissa, never thought an archaeological report could sound so beautiful!
September 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Recording today the sung version of the Kansala excavation report with the amazing Nino Galissa, never thought an archaeological report could sound so beautiful!
This is the wonderful team currently excavating Kansala, last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, currently in Guinea-Bissau. Archaeologists from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-B, and Spain, working together to document this amazing site. More news on finds shortly!
February 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is the wonderful team currently excavating Kansala, last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, currently in Guinea-Bissau. Archaeologists from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-B, and Spain, working together to document this amazing site. More news on finds shortly!
Last month we spent two amazing weeks in Guinea-Bissau preparing the January excavations at Kansala, the last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu. Thanks to Thierry Balde, Eric Garcia Moral and Iaia Biai for making it possible and to INEP for hosting us. Can't wait for January!
December 22, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Last month we spent two amazing weeks in Guinea-Bissau preparing the January excavations at Kansala, the last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu. Thanks to Thierry Balde, Eric Garcia Moral and Iaia Biai for making it possible and to INEP for hosting us. Can't wait for January!