Madina Thiam
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Madina Thiam
@thiamm.bsky.social
writer, professor, historian of Mali and the Sahel ✨bien thiepe bien mafée✨ writing📚Navel of the World, an intimate history of Muslim West Africa

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📍NYC | Bamako
NYC, join us tomorrow for the launch of Verso's Southern Question series

we'll discuss the (re)release of Andrée Blouin's My Country, Africa, and Adéwálé Májà-Pearce's This Fiction Called Nigeria

7pm at The People's Forum, more info + tickets here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...
May 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
New York! Join us for a screening of Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence

Afterwards I'll be in conversation with director Kalidou Sy

🗓️Monday May 26
📍Maysles Documentary Center
🕜doors open 6pm

Free with registration. Grab your seat, we don't have many left!

RSVP🔗https://pp.events/b2QYQNBm
May 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just back from Morocco and if you guys are in Casablanca, please visit Siniya research.

It's a community center, archive, and translation space taking its partial inspo (and name) from Nas El Ghiwane, revisiting panafrican histories that almost were, and doing much more.
December 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM