Dar es Salaam and the excellent Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Great to be part of the writing workshop and to reflect also on a decade (& slightly more) of the innovative journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Calling historians and all interested readers: Johannesburg and Cape Town launches at @exclusivebooks.bsky.social and Book Lounge.

The prominent Molteno family with multiple impacts on South African politics, social life and culture.

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Just out in @sajournalofscience.bsky.social: my review of Publishing from the South by Wits Press. Fascinating multi-authored read about the life and times of a distinctive university press and the broader dynamics of publishing from the global African South: sajs.co.za/article/view...

Great news, yes, yes, yes, @noosarowiwa.bsky.social’s Black Ghosts wins the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social award. Had the privilege and wonder of interviewing her about the book for @africa.theconversation.com. Have a read x2! theconversation.com/black-ghosts...

Excellent @orcid.org board meeting in Munich reaffirming the mission to connect research & researchers, providing free unique identifiers for all contributing to scholarship and innovation around the world. Such a well run, focused organization and vibrant inclusive global community.

In preparing the article I found Mahvish Ahmad's discussion of the musāfir in Dilip Menon's edited volume on Southern concepts (@WitsPress & @Routledge books) particularly apt and generative –and valued the discussions at @JIAS_UJ.

Delighted to publish on black women's activist travel during apartheid in the Decolonial Turn special issue of Studies in Travel Writing. Thank you to the Hakluyt Society conference, excellent guest editors Natalya Din-Kariuki & Guido van Meersbergen and anonymous reviewers.

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Stimulating AfOx interdisciplinary Insaka. The provocations and inspirations of exploring infrastructure building of different kinds — the built landscape and the constructs of archives. Thank you Rehema Msulwa and Tinashe Mushakavanhu.

Much to get stuck into, shaking off the spruce needles….

Total joy—never dull!—interviewing the unstoppable Noo Saro-Wiwa. Deep dive into lives of Africans in China as explored in her stunning new travel book: Black Ghosts (Canongate).

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Thank you The Conversation Africa & Charl Blignaut.

Piece just out, thx to Mail & Guardian & @JCharlesLeonard. Explores anti-Rhodes activism and its symbolism then and now. Extract from broader essay on ‘Olive Schreiner, Race and Black South Africa’ in @SAModernism’s new exciting book (Edinburgh Uni UP). mg.co.za/friday/2023-... #RhodesMustFall