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Lecturer in African Music

📍SOAS University of London, UK

Three-year lectureship in African Music for scholars working on music or sound art in Africa and/or African diaspora societies. Teaching includes ethnomusicology, urban soundscapes, global music cultures, and the music business across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Deadline: 15/07/2026

https://vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/895247

#Ethnomusicology #AfricanMusic #AfricanStudies #DiasporaStudies #MusicBusiness

Lecturer in African Music at SOAS

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ICYMI Mpho Matispa is an architect and thinker from Johannesburg whose work reimagines Black urbanism and African mobility — not as crisis, but as creative, city-making practice. The conversation moves from hair salons as spaces of care and resistance, to colonial extraction of time, to what a "distributed university" might look like beyond elite institutions.

Rich, rigorous, and food for thought

🎧 https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-454-mpho-matsipa/

#podcast #urbanism #architecture #BlackUrbanism #AfricanStudies

My former colleague Hamza Diman @unibayreuth just published his wonderful book:

Hamza Diman (2026): "Fuelwood, Lomé and the State: 1907-2025", Langaa

If you are interested in the history of #energy #wood #fuel #africa #WestAfrica #togo #Lomé you should definitely read this!

Order it here: https://africanbookscollective.com/books/fuelwood-lome-and-the-state-1907-2025/

#histodons #AfricanStudies @histodons @rheinze

Fuelwood, Lomé and the State: 1907-2025

This book examines domestic fuelwood energy in Togo, with a focus on the capital, Lomé, from 1907 to 2025. Despite a ‘butanisation’ programme introduced in the 1980s to promote a gradual shift to liquefied petroleum gas, charcoal remains central to everyday cooking, particularly in Lomé. While fuelwood has been extensively studied by natural scientists as […]

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Apparently my book (and many others) are available with a 50% discount at Berghahnbooks right now.

Berghahn on Bluesky:
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Find all discounted books here: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/flashsale/all

Or mine directly: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LingelbachOn

#histodons #bookstodon #berghahn #refugees #africanstudies #africa #poland

Job alert!
Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert 100 %
Stellenantritt 1. August 2027

An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert (Open Rank) zu besetzen.

https://wissenschaftlichestellenangebote.com/professur-fuer-afrika-europa-im-langen-20-jahrhundert,i19216,n15593038.html

#histodons #africanstudies @histodons #geschichte #zurich

Professur für Afrika - Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert (Universität Zürich)

Historisches Seminar Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert 100 % Stellenantritt 1. August 2027 An der Universität Zürich ist auf den

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Great text for #africanStudies

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?"

After the coronation

By Michaela Collord

In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.

Good text on the background to the current situation in #Tanzania @africasacountry

#africa #africanStudies

https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/after-the-coronation

After the coronation

In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.

📖 The 20th issue of Práticas da História has been published!

Coordinated by Noemi Alfieri, its theme is ‘(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge.’

🔓 Available in #OpenAccess at https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/2054

#Histodons #CiênciaAberta #OAWeek #AfricanStudies #Historiography #UsesOfThePast #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Press #Historiografia #UsosDoPassado #Imprensa #Nigeria #Angola #Africa #AcessoAberto

maximising the positive effects of the relationship between language and well-being."

register: https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/y59iLIkdTAGZPt5Q8vs_3Q

this event is part of the African studies global virtual forum 2025–26: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies

#JustynaOlko #Warsaw #AfricanStudies

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies - Justyna Olko. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies - Justyna Olko. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Kleines Fach mit großem Spektrum von Sprachtheorie und -dokumentation über Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprache als kulturellem Wissensträger bis Kulturerhalt und Selbstbestimmung: Henning Schreiber von der #UniHamburg porträtiert die #Afrikanistik! Mehr unter https://www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/blogbeitrag/afrikanistik #Afrika #AfricanStudies #kleinefaecher