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Historian, mainly of Tanzania and Comoros. "Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam" (CUP, 2021, and soon with Mkuki na Nyota). And cricket, too.

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My book on revolutionary Dar es Salaam is now 🔓open access🔓 and free to download here .
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Gone elsewhere to a friendlier place: dropped the username initials, so we're on first name terms now:
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RT @nat_telepneva: Out Now! Pick up a copy of our (w Rui Lopes) #OpenAccess edited volume ‘Globalising Independence struggles in Lusophone….
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RT @clairecmercer: The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam - book out now! Published by University of California….
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RT @KojoKoram: Me on Southport and Tainted Love.
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Mkuki Bgoya: “Swahili writers should be mandatory reading in Tanzania, but there’s a deep trauma around books”.
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'"Clarky' compiled 28 editions of his homespun publication, usually by commandeering a local copy centre in the hours before a Test series began, and stitching together an eclectic range of contributions using paper, scissors, glue and emails.".
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RT @celiadonert: Eclipse of internationalism? The late twentieth-century liberal moment - our new @PastPresentSoc forum w brilliant essays….
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RT @MCollord: My book is out. You can order here Intro chapter here (free for a month) It….
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1 year
Saw someone walking around Moroni here in Comoros in a Chennai Super Kings shirt and I have many questions #IPL #Comores.
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also, back in the archives, enjoyed this tongue-in-cheek announcement for Italia '90 screenings. EN DIRECT ROME-MORONI
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Away from the archives. Kenya play Rwanda at the Sikh Union Club, Nairobi. kickabout at the Stade Ajao, Moroni
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RT @kopalo: Kenyan Protests, Part One: . The political education of President William Ruto:
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If you've just seen headlines and images, and want a succinct, pithy account of what's going on in Kenya right now, here's Nanjala Nyabola.
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RT @DrOmbongi: Below is our History & Archaeology seminar series for September - December, 2024 Semester. Please, mark your calendars and j….
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Libraries, art galleries, work space, and foliage at Schiphol
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RT @ChuArchives: Have a look at this new post on the papers of 'the member for Africa', the anti-colonialism and peace campaigner Fenner Br….
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RT @IASH_Edinburgh: NEW FELLOWSHIP FOR 2025.We are delighted to announce a new fellowship opportunity in 2025 to mark the 90th anniversary….
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RT @g_m_roberts: Mogadishu '74 revisited. over @Geeskaplatform I wrote about African petropolitics, a sensational scandal at the OAU, and d….
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It's sort of a companion piece to an essay in wrote for @africaarguments recently.
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