We're excited to announce the first installment of our series History in Africa Author Interviews! Enjoy this conversation on Benin City, archives, & archeological approaches between HiA author Tomos Evans and ERB member Jeffrey Fleisher on YouTube. https://youtu.be/dgFEaivJJ6A?si=NpDywuR9lR7TL9rN
When German colonists named the coastal town Swakopmund, “Mouth of the Swakop,” they thought they were being tidy. What they had actually preserved was a local Khoekhoe joke.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/namibian-h...
Im #Linden-Museum Stuttgart rückt eine Ausstellung das Leben von #Chagga-Frauen am Kilimandscharo in den Fokus – und zeigt, wie wichtig die Zusammenarbeit mit der Community für das Thema „kulturelles Erbe“ ist. @thielec.bsky.social beleuchtet ein Projekt zwischen Forschung und Erinnerung:
Fifty years on, Regina Mundi, Soweto's Catholic People's Cathedral, still carries the bullet scars from the day it sheltered fleeing students. A sanctuary is seldom consecrated; it is made holy by what it shelters.
The full story: www.scross.co.za/2026/06/june...
Worth a listen. So much repair after colonialism is sought not in policy but in ritual, where the living still answer to the dead. The sacred is where healing gets negotiated: ajbeall.substack.com/p/speaking-w...
Decolonial Memories
Forensic work is reconstructing Shark Island, the first genocide of the twentieth century. Disturbing the dead in order to name them is its own fraught kind of repair. On that contest over Namibia's graves: ajbeall.substack.com/p/stones-bon...
History in Africa
The intent is not ambiguous.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/the-weight...
A fat cake, for the uninitiated: fried dough, dense, hot, sometimes called vetkoek. The exact thing to fill the space in your stomach where the travel anxiety has been sitting for the last few hours.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/the-land-a...
Eine Ausstellung im Linden-Museum Stuttgart präsentiert exemplarisch Ergebnisse eines deutsch-tansanischen Forschungsprojekts. Der Archäologe Valence Silayo erforschte 450 Objekte und befragte Nachfahren der Gemeinschaft.
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Ochre on the skin in the morning, a dream about a Toyota pickup by afternoon. The OvaHimba women were not a time capsule for my camera. Embracing tradition never meant sealing themselves off from aspiration.
The full story: ajbeall.substack.com/p/dust-desir...
