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Anjuli Webster

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Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism in southern Africa. Lecturer, Department of Liberation Studies, University of Fort Hare.

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · Nov 4

A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.

Aerial view of a small downpour of rain released from white clouds over a body of water next to two open mine pits and urban settlements.

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Journal of African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social · 10h

You can access the #OpenAccess issue here
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55035

Project MUSE - African Economic History-Volume 53, Number 1, 2025

muse.jhu.edu

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Journal of African Economic History @africaneconhist.bsky.social · 10h

We are pleased to announce our new Special Issue 53.1 which is #OpenAccess thanks to support from Kanazawa University Our guest editors @gareth-austin.bsky.social and @toyomumasaki.bsky.social on Currency Transitions in West Africa. We will be highlighting articles from it in the coming days!

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Thread 🧵

Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/r00cl2

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

Motaz Azaiza shared this video of a street in Gaza before and after the Israeli genocide started

www.instagram.com/reel/DOGfKA4...

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 1d

In pictures: As Israel's genocide in Gaza marks its second anniversary, here are some of the most infamous images of Tel Aviv's carnage in the blockaded enclave.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Down with slop!

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11d

READ: The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why…

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 12d

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

Black and white image or Assata Shakur wearing silver earrings with cowrie shells in her locs, looking to the side talking to someone.

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 12d

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (University of Chicago Press) and Toby Green’s The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century West African Port (Allen Lane UK edition) made it to the beautiful library of Universdade de Cabo Verde this week. #slaveryarchive

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Edgar Taylor @edgarjacktaylor.bsky.social · 14d

Join the Makerere Dept of History, Archaeology & Heritage Studies today at 3pm in CTF1 Room 3.1/3.2 or on Zoom for the book launch of Henri Médard's Colonial Chaos: Land Politics and Conflicts on the Shores of Lake Victoria (1885-1925)

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15d

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 29d

Ethiopia launches Africa's largest hydroelectric dam reut.rs/4gcSDAV

Ethiopia launches Africa's largest hydroelectric dam

Ethiopia officially inaugurated Africa's largest hydroelectric dam on Tuesday, a project that will provide energy to millions of Ethiopians while deepening a rift with downstream Egypt that has unsettled the region.

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · Sep 6

Caturday twins!

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Israel is not an "ally" of the US. It is a proxy force. It is used to attack popular liberation movements across West Asia—and elsewhere in the global South—to prevent sovereign development and thus maintain the conditions for US capital accumulation.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Aug 23

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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Peter James Hudson @darkfinance.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Haitian Revolution and its Impact on the Americas.

Michel-Rolph Truillot

www.blackagendareport.com/essay-haitia...

ESSAY: The Haitian Revolution and its Impact on the Americas, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1991 | Black Agenda Report

“To understand the history of the Americas we must pay tribute to…Haiti.”

www.blackagendareport.com

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Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social · Aug 24

Paul Clarke is doing incredible work on the global history of policing and abolition. Here he makes several key interventions in the historiography of race and the frontier in South Africa.

A must read! 📚

The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Aug 21

Read Paul T. Clarke’s new OA article on #policing, #war, #mercantilism, and the #frontier in Dutch #SouthAfrica:

bit.ly/47D7tyj

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · Aug 22

I drew a whole bunch of maps for this book, and I am *really* looking forward to reading it!

Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · Aug 22

A nice cocktail to celebrate the end of a long road! 🗃️

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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · Aug 12

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!

A book jacket with a picture of mountains and a reservoir. The title reads: White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

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