Florence Brisset-Foucault
@fbrissetfo.bsky.social
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Academic at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Political thought, media, citizenship and regime change in Africa, with a v. soft spot for Uganda 🫶 🇺🇬.
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THIS i'm really proud of... Participating in making this documentary on the history of cartooning in Uganda AND having it chroniched in the great newspaper that is The Monitor = one of my career's highlights www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...
What it took to make cartoons under dictator Amin’s regime
A new documentary, 'The Tongue Turns to the Aching Tooth', explores how the work of veteran cartoonists has shaped Uganda's popular culture.
www.monitor.co.ug
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The film offers a glimpse of the life and work of cartoonists under the dictatorship of Idi Amin in the 1970s. It speaks of art, survival and freedom. Come join us ! Find the link to the documentary below
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Friday 3rd October 5PM East Africa Time, 2PM GMT, Michiel, Jimmy and I will talk about the documentary we made together, The Tongue Turns to the Aching Tooth, together with the wonderful Jon Earle of the Uganda Studies Group.
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Brand new here and pleased to share news of the publication of our new @degruyterbrill.bsky.social book “Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975". Available for free: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Congratulations Patrick Haenni and @jeromed.bsky.social, Transformed by the People is out now👏

‘Essential reading.’ @irishtimes.com

‘Haenni and Drevon have done the impossible… a gem, a superb, edifying and eye-opening account.’—Robert Malley

25% off w/code TRANSFORMED25➡️ tinyurl.com/mb4nrc7n
A stack of copies of Transformed by the People with the Somerset House courtyard visible in the background. The cover features an image of Ahmad al-Sharaa waving to crowds. There is white and yellow text that reads 'Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham's Road to Power in Syria. Patrick Haenni & Jerome Drevon.'
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ripc.bsky.social
Nouveau numéro sur le colonialisme de peuplement ! A partir des cas de la Palestine, de la Californie et de l'Algérie française, les articles de ce numéro se proposent de mettre à l'épreuve empiriquement ce paradigme théorique pour en montrer la portée analytique

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Revue internationale de politique comparée 2024/2 (Vol. 31)
Le colonialisme de peuplement : applications empiriques et approches critiques
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Join us to discuss new releases on 1970s Uganda: 3rd October, 7th November ! 🫶🇺🇬
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Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.
A magazine cover featuring abstract art and the title “the war about everything in Sudan”.
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All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent

The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.

Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
This cover of The Continent (16 August 2025, Issue 209) has a headline that reads:
“The war about everything in Sudan” in dark grey text on the left side.
The artwork filling most of the page is an abstract, cubist-style drawing of a human face made up of many geometric patterns and shapes. The face is black and grey with sections of checkerboard, stripes, and intricate line designs. The lips are deep red. The figure has two large pointed ear-like shapes on top of the head, long dark arms raised upward on either side, and several eyes scattered within the fragmented face design.
At the top, the page “The Continent” is printed in large, dark blue letters with a small red circle (like a sun) above the head in the middle. A gold strip runs along the top edge with the text: African Journalism | 16 August 2025 | Issue 209.
The artist is Khalid Shatta.
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tomwestland.bsky.social
New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...
The Political Economy of Maize in East Africa, 1900-2020: How cheap food turned expensive – African Economic History Network
www.aehnetwork.org
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This special issue of Girlhood Studies looks awesome! It has so much on East Africa! www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Les 'sentiments révolutionnaires' sont vraiment classe...
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SO HAPPY FOR YOU !!!! ❤️‍🔥
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Passion so geek dans les archives du UNHCR avec les bureaucrates qui se "lâchent" dans la marge, les beaux tampons (Zaïre 1979), les "hautes considérations révolutionnaires" (Ibid.) et la personne qui prétend/espère (?) être le collaborateur de son correspondant qui l'envoie balader...
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#HumanRights Des milliers de burundaises sont envoyées en #Arabie saoudite comme travailleuses. Leurs conditions de travail s'apparentent à de la traite d'êtres humains tandis que des membres du régime au #Burundi s'enrichissent. Une #Enquête menée avec Ukweli & Africa Uncensored⤵️
Entre le Burundi et l’Arabie saoudite, des travailleuses victimes d'un trafic d’êtres humains - Enquête
En quelques années, au moins 17 000 Burundais ont officiellement pris la route de Riyad à la recherche d’une vie meilleure. Alors que le Burundi et l’Arabie saoudite ont signé en 2021 un accord (…)
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[COLL] 19-20.06.25 / @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social
ANNA JULIA COOPER, 1925-2025: Une féministe noire en Sorbonne
org: @gregorybekhtari.bsky.social, Magali Bessone, @audreycel.bsky.social, Myriam Cottias, @hquanquin.bsky.social, @noelleromney.bsky.social & @mroyupc.bsky.social
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Et ce congrès passionnant de la Société pour l'histoire des médias (SPHM) se poursuit aujourd'hui et demain au Campus Condorcet !
Programme ici : 👇
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#HelloESR 👋

Nouvel élan pour la revue "Sociétés politiques comparées" (SPC) désormais publiée par Firenze University Press et disponible à l'adresse suivante
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Sociétés politiques comparées. Revue européenne d’analyse des sociétés politiques
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fbrissetfo.bsky.social
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳Bravo Florent... ils ont bien de la chance de t'avoir !