Sam Severson
@sseverson.bsky.social
Dad. Historian. Managing editor of @thejah.bsky.social.
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Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfrica” :
bit.ly/4hS1c59
bit.ly/4hS1c59
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Read the new #OpenAccess article by John Thornton, “The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in West #CentralAfrica” :
bit.ly/4hS1c59
bit.ly/4hS1c59
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Read the new #OpenAccess article by Felicitas Becker and Salvatory Nyanto on women’s beer brewing and livelihood strategies in #Tabora #Tanzania after the end of #slavery:
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Read the new #OpenAccess article by Felicitas Becker and Salvatory Nyanto on women’s beer brewing and livelihood strategies in #Tabora #Tanzania after the end of #slavery:
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
bit.ly/3JwHI9q
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Read the new featured review by Mark W. Deets detailing both “L’idée de la #Casamance autonome: Possibles et dettes morales de la situation coloniale au #Senegal” (Editions Karthala) by @sevead.bsky.social and the political storm surrounding its publication:
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
October 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Read the new featured review by Mark W. Deets detailing both “L’idée de la #Casamance autonome: Possibles et dettes morales de la situation coloniale au #Senegal” (Editions Karthala) by @sevead.bsky.social and the political storm surrounding its publication:
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
bit.ly/4n8zHFe
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Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern #SouthAfrica and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:
bit.ly/4nPKSns
bit.ly/4nPKSns
October 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Read the new OA article by Abikal Borah on indentured labor in southeastern #SouthAfrica and relations between Indian and Zulu workers:
bit.ly/4nPKSns
bit.ly/4nPKSns
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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
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
October 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
bit.ly/4q4UGvD
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Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
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#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
October 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Read the new OA #HistoryMatters piece by Leslye Obiora on #BeninBronzes and the #Law:
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
bit.ly/4nnyF8R
#Nigeria #CulturalHeritage #antiquities #colonialism #restitution
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Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from #Nigeria in #Burma in 1945:
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
October 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Read the new OA article by Oliver Coates on war correspondents from #Nigeria in #Burma in 1945:
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
bit.ly/4nO6BfN
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Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
October 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Read the new OA History Matters piece by Cresa Pugh on legacies of the #BeninBronzes and #Restitution within the #BlackAtlantic
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
bit.ly/48DRHnJ
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October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
September 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
bit.ly/3JZVEc2
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In the latest OA #HistoryMatters piece, JAH #WestAfrica editor Moses Ochonu writes about the rise and implications of what he terms the new instrumental turn in historical scholarship in #Nigeria:
bit.ly/3JExPWV
bit.ly/3JExPWV
September 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In the latest OA #HistoryMatters piece, JAH #WestAfrica editor Moses Ochonu writes about the rise and implications of what he terms the new instrumental turn in historical scholarship in #Nigeria:
bit.ly/3JExPWV
bit.ly/3JExPWV
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Very happy to see my latest article published with
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
bit.ly/46hPEUo
September 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Very happy to see my latest article published with
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
@thejah.bsky.social - the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm...
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Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
bit.ly/46hPEUo
September 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read the new OA article by @nielsboender.bsky.social on the African Independent Pentecostal Church, #decolonization, #land, and #reconciliation in #Kenya:
bit.ly/46hPEUo
bit.ly/46hPEUo
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Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Read the new OA article by @caitlinbarker.bsky.social on the #diplomacy carried out by #women from #Cameroon in #China during the era of #decolonization:
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
bit.ly/4mGMdg6
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Just received the cover for my latest book! Coming in February 2026 to a bookstore near you in Southern Africa (available in North America and Europe, too), but published in RSA. Exciting stuff!
August 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just received the cover for my latest book! Coming in February 2026 to a bookstore near you in Southern Africa (available in North America and Europe, too), but published in RSA. Exciting stuff!
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Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.
A must read! 📚
A must read! 📚
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
bit.ly/47D7tyj
August 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.
A must read! 📚
A must read! 📚
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Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
bit.ly/47D7tyj
August 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:
bit.ly/47D7tyj
bit.ly/47D7tyj
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AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
AI can only replace historians in the sense that it can spit out mediocre, plagiarized narrative that vaguely resembles history. It will never replace *good* historians. Unfortunately, many university presidents and CEOs don’t seem to care about the quality of work being done, only the quantity- 1/2
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
August 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
Check out the latest episode of the JAH podcast, featuring Ayo Adegbite in conversation with @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social about studying the history of fisheries management on #LakeMalawi. Find it on Apple, Spotify, and streaming here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h...
OA article link: bit.ly/4lmkjoT
OA article link: bit.ly/4lmkjoT
David Wilson on fisheries management in Lake Malawi
In this episode, David Wilson (University of Strathclyde) joins guest host Ayodeji Adegbite (Brown University) to discuss the Open Access article, "Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives...
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July 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Check out the latest episode of the JAH podcast, featuring Ayo Adegbite in conversation with @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social about studying the history of fisheries management on #LakeMalawi. Find it on Apple, Spotify, and streaming here: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vyr4h...
OA article link: bit.ly/4lmkjoT
OA article link: bit.ly/4lmkjoT
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Check out the special issue of the International Journal of #CulturalProperty on "The #AfricanRenaissance and International Cultural Heritage #Law":
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International Journal of Cultural Property
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July 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Check out the special issue of the International Journal of #CulturalProperty on "The #AfricanRenaissance and International Cultural Heritage #Law":
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
July 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
In our latest #OA #HistoryMatters piece, the team of Milo Gough, Bryson Nkhoma, Elias Chirwa, @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social, Charles Knapp, Tracy Morse, and Wapulumuka Mulwafu explore the history of present day #Fisheries management in #LakeMalawi:
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
bit.ly/4lmkjoT
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Read the #OA article by @araujohistorian.bsky.social on #FreeTrade, #Violence, and #Sovereignty in #WestCentralAfrica during the era of the #Transatlantic #SlaveTrade: bit.ly/3GiTDGt
July 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Read the #OA article by @araujohistorian.bsky.social on #FreeTrade, #Violence, and #Sovereignty in #WestCentralAfrica during the era of the #Transatlantic #SlaveTrade: bit.ly/3GiTDGt
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Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia:
bit.ly/4kzGLtf
bit.ly/4kzGLtf
July 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Read Peter Brooke’s latest article on #Radio, #Gender, and #Development in #Ghana and #Zambia:
bit.ly/4kzGLtf
bit.ly/4kzGLtf
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Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin:
bit.ly/3TtjwWZ
bit.ly/3TtjwWZ
July 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Read the new #OA article by @giotonolo.bsky.social on the production and repression of palm alcohol in #Benin:
bit.ly/3TtjwWZ
bit.ly/3TtjwWZ