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richaxe.bsky.social
@richaxe.bsky.social
Anthropologist doing features about country life, farmers, milkmen, parliamentarians, democracy, climate change, that sort of thing. Ethiopia, India, SOAS, Sheffield

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/richard-axelby
Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Remembering PhD fieldwork - me, Bhagtu and Helen in Chamba, H.P. sometime in 2002 or 2003. Sent to me by Vinayak Dhami (who was about eight when the pic was taken)
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
At IPSS in Addis where researchers from South Omo are sharing their learnings with an audience of academics, government representatives, and NGOs. Turning outputs to impacts #LearningFromSouthOmo
July 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Sharing Learning from South Omo - a two day conference with members of agro-pastoralist communities in South Ethiopia. grnpp.org/agro-pastora... @soasanthro.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Very excited about ‘Learning from South Omo’ - an exhibition highlighting new research from Southern Ethiopia. Doors open at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre this Thursday 16th of July. If you’re in Addis then be sure to drop by. And if you’re not, you can read about it here: grnpp.org/learning-fro...
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tigray landscapes
May 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Had an amazing time at Adigrat University for a two day workshop on creative and collaborative approaches to the study of politics. @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Screening today at Adigrat University, Ethiopia: ‘Mugut - the wheels of democracy’ starring @andyksheff.bsky.social and the campaign to save Sheffield’s Rose Garden Cafe.
May 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Evening meal in Tigray
May 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Morning in Tigray
May 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Listening to the brilliant @laurahammond.bsky.social make sense of her academic journey to professor of development studies at @soasuni.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Celebrating 10 years of Hope For The Future www.hftf.org.uk supporting climate and nature campaigns at all scales to succeed.
February 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Coke bottles are a work of art. Ethiopian ኮካ ኮላ takes that design genius to another level.
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’ve been visiting schools around Omorate in the far south of Ethiopia englishpuhal.blog/2025/02/05/t...
February 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Happening tomorrow in Addis
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Huge congrats to @posnegorg.bsky.social and all involved in the excellent ‘Stories of Migration’ exhibition. @soasuni.bsky.social Brunei Gallery until 22nd March.
January 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I’m back in Jinka in the far south of Ethiopia. With nothing to do today I went for a wander above the town.
November 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I’ll start with this coz it’s new and it’s open access: Open Conversations about creative collaboration and Living Democracy eprints.soas.ac.uk/42856/
November 18, 2024 at 7:37 AM