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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️
@hannobrankamp.bsky.social
Ungrateful Migrant | Geographer | UoGlasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, race, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own

Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke, Feb 2026)

Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
The Introduction to my book OCCUPIED REFUGE is now freely available online: bit.ly/482e3i1

Book will be out 17 Feb 2026 but you can pre-order now:

In the Americas: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Outside of America: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313...

Get 30% off with this promo code: E26BRNKM
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Amidst death, destruction and injury brought upon her own citizens, she declares victory by 98%. The Govt is untenable.
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
And just like that, it has a cover 🤯. Starting to feel real now.

Out 17 Feb 2026!!!

www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
August 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Mural for “Mashujaa Wetu” (Our Heroes) in Dandora, Nairobi Eastlands.
July 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Found an iconic piece of Scotland on Nairobi’s supermarket shelves!

@uofglasgow.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Tomorrow (young) Kenyans will go to the streets to remember and demand justice for those killed by the government since June 2024.

Many more mashujaa will never be known by name.
June 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Words have lost their meaning. We live in an Orwellian world in which war is peace and love is hate.

Keir Starmer, once again, beating the imperial bullsh*t drum like few others.
June 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
June 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Can you really ‘deport’ someone you have unlawfully abducted, detained and forced onto your national territory?

#FreedomFlotilla #Madleen #Gaza
June 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
No. The headline should be “Israel forcibly intercepts civilian vessel in breach of international law.” Full stop.

@theguardian.com makes it seem like this can’t be independently verified on a live streamed and highly televised high profile sailboat. Please do your job.
June 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Kenya’s infrastructural build-up in preparation for the Africa Cup of Nations 2027.

Talanta Sports Stadium along Ngong Road.
June 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Is water wet?
June 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Free Rose Njeri—who has been detained by Kenyan authorities for several days for alleged “cyber crimes.”

The crime? She created a website that could send automated emails to parliament to protest the new Finance Bill 2025.

Unacceptable.
June 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Good morning, Nairobi ❤️
May 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
V.Y. Mudimbe, philosophy giant and author (amongst many others) of “The Invention of Africa” has died. RIP.
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I detect some mixed messaging here as all ESTAs are being terminated.
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Is it because the school has decided to oppose carceral solutions and, instead, to bring into being a world in which nobody is put into cages?

Wait, no, it’s just teacher training this afternoon. Got it.
April 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
First bisque firing complete🔥—next step: glazing!
March 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Once again, Muslims & migrants have to *literally* risk their lives to be considered human and “worthy”. Liberals might think this kind of reporting is positive but it reflects the same racist logic that “gifted” French citizenship to Mamoudou Gassama after he rescued a boy from a balcony in 2018.
March 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Oh yes, that very fringe ideology of having “ill will toward corporate America.” Very sus.
December 10, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Out now: “From Nairobi to Berlin: Borders and the trade in “surplus workers”

The inimitable Andrew Maina & I have co-written a short blog post for @fluchtforschung.bsky.social analysing what we know so far about the Germany-Kenya 🇩🇪🇰🇪migration deal.

Have a read!

fluchtforschung.net/from-nairobi...
November 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
HOT OFF THE PRESS: A labour of love—Kodi A. Ngutulu and I worked with young poets in Kakuma refugee camp to think collectively about what it might mean to do/write poetry “on the run.”

Thanks to our young poets for their trust, creativity & passion

www.berghahnjournals.com/downloadpdf/...
November 13, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Wonderful to be presenting my work to participants at the UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 34 degrees Dar es Salaam heat yesterday. Great questions! Always a pleasure. Asanteni.
February 1, 2024 at 6:12 AM
My good friend painted Palestinian embroidery with watercolours and made a beautiful calendar. If you are either in GERMANY or JORDAN you can purchase one.

Simple: Go to Instagram @ anthra.site and DM her for your order. Do it now!

All proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)🍉🍉🍉🍉
December 9, 2023 at 12:17 PM
Casual reminder that writing on British colonial violence against KLFA/Mau Mau did not start with white scholars.

J.M. Kariuki’s memoir is one of the most emotive & visceral texts to be found on the topic, giving us a detailed & haunting account of the “pipeline” from within the camps.
November 3, 2023 at 5:48 AM