#Botswana taking #gold and #bronze in the men's 400 at the #WorldAthleticsChampionships is just amazing.

A country of 2.5 million. 2 of the top 3 (and 3 of top 8) men in the world right now at 400 meters.

#Pula!

Academic year starting? Wondering what you want/need to write?

How about a chapter on the legacy of James Ferguson? CfP for special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa on his scholarly legacy and how to extend his work.
#Lesotho, #Zambia, #gender, #Labour, #Modernity

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!

Call for papers: Special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa: The Legacy of James #Ferguson

Abstracts due by 31 Oct. I am serving as co-guest editor and happy to answer questions. Encouraging early career scholars from Southern Africa!

And in case you are wondering why I have a no-AI policy in my classes, it is because the machines are dumb.

Jonathan met with LBJ, even if some AI-drivel I didn't ask for pops up in an attempt to gaslight me (and the official USA State Department History)!

This is a big deal in terms of the #border between #Lesotho and #SouthAfrica.

#Basotho now get 90 days visa at the border instead of the prior 30.

#BiNationalCommission
#SADC
#Movement
#Passports

First step of the #Lesotho Government's plan to try to stay on the good side of new USA administration--approve a long-stalled #Starlink application

(hint: It most likely won't work, but will cause problems down the road when you try to regulate after the fact)

Here is one from wikimedia commons that shows basically the same thing:

commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

I always find this map drives home the points I am trying to make about colonialism = extraction exquisitely:

My personal fav...

Hate to be too pessimistic, but this could mark the start of a return to the 'bad old days' of coalition merry-go-round with near-constant changes, floor-crossing, and other political instability.

#Lesotho
#Politics

7 PM Thursday in Snyder-Phillips Hall (basement Theater): documentary on #redlining in #Lansing in conjunction with the Historical Society of Greater Lansing

"They Even Took the Dirt"
Talk-back with community members who lived through this.
Free parking on MSU campus after 6 PM. See you there!

Table of contents for those wanting to see it!

Looks at borders, borderlands, and crossers (along with borderlands residents) across the SADC region

Book day (again--2nd in 2 weeks)!

'Migration, Borders, and Borderlands: Making National Communities in Southern Africa' is here!

Two years in the making, co-edited with Chitja Twala, Munyaradzi Mushonga and Grey Magaiza.

Tell your academic library to get a copy!

rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...

Always a very exciting day to come home and find your new book on the doorstep. Even more exciting when it is one you have worked on with your co-authors for almost 3 full years!

A new version of the Historical Dictionary of #Lesotho is out!

Speculative new Cabinet for #Lesotho after the Matekane Government brought in new parties to make up for the members of the ruling RFP who left in an effort to bring about No-Confidence.

This brings the BAP into government, increases cabinet by 5 (if correct) and brings new DPM