With a grateful heart, I am pleased to announce that my P&P article, “Electricity, Agency and Class in Lagos Colony, C.1860S–1914,” received two article prizes in Viña del Mar, Chile last week: Maurice Daumas Prize by @icohtec and Bernard S. Finn IEEE Prize by @SocHistTech

RT @StartArchiving: In 1957, Margaret Ekpo was told that an election was “too crucial” to risk fielding a woman. Decades later, Nigerian wo….

Join us at this event tomorrow.

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RT @ueberdruss: 🚨I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with Stanford University Press is out, featuring Jennifer Eag….

Please join us next Thursday, April 3, from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm EST, at the @TubmanInstitute, to celebrate Prof. Paul Lovejoy's distinguished career & retirement from York University.

RT @WalkWithWeb: Join us for a special retirement celebration honoring Prof. Paul Lovejoy (@YorkUniversity & @WalkWithWeb), a leading histo….

RT @ueberdruss: spring 2025 forthcoming.

This afternoon, at @TubmanInstitute, I'll give a talk on the necropolitics of of labour relations in colonial Africa. I am excited about sharing preliminary insights from this long-standing side project.

Happy to announce the publication of my essay in the Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies. It represents my modest attempt to assemble and annotate wide-ranging writings on electrification in African studies:

Hi everyone, I am sharing this interview I had with Nnamdi Nnake (McMaster University), a fellow historian of technology. We had an exciting conversation on the history of African technology/technology in Africa. Link below:

Congratulations @Steph_Adeyemo.

Glad my ideas found a home at @PastPresentSoc. And grateful for the recognitions it has received so far.

I received both prizes in person and gave a talk on the article during the awards ceremony. I am grateful to everyone (a list too long to mention here) who read the article at various stages and to @PastPresentSoc for publishing the article.

The Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize is supported by @IEEEhistory and “awarded annually to the best paper in the history of electrotechnology—power, electronics, telecommunications, and computer science"

The Maurice Daumas Prize is “awarded. the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume”

I had an opportunity to review Joshua Grace's African Motors for Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. You can read the review summary here:

RT @biodun_alao: At the Energy and Society in Nigeria for one-day workshop for scholars at the University of Ibadan, convened by Damilola A….

I am sharing this poster again. Join us at the University of Ibadan on Monday, Feb. 19, for this one-day workshop. The deadline for the expression of interest is this Friday, Feb. 2. Please note that the deadline will not be extended due to the short timeline. Thank you.

RT @AndyDenningHist: the book has a cover! Coming your way this summer. With thanks to @BethanyWasik and all the editorial/production/desig….