Justin Pearce
@justinpearce.bsky.social
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Pinned
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography | Thula
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden
www.taylorfrancis.com
Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
(In Africa predictable answers are easy - I'll avoid those & name beasts that don't appear on banknotes & which brought delight)
Chimpanzee (Uganda)
Banded rubber frog (Mozambique)
Springhare (South Africa)
Coypu (Czechia)
Reindeer (Norway)
(In Africa predictable answers are easy - I'll avoid those & name beasts that don't appear on banknotes & which brought delight)
Chimpanzee (Uganda)
Banded rubber frog (Mozambique)
Springhare (South Africa)
Coypu (Czechia)
Reindeer (Norway)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
- badger
- badger
- badger
- badger
- SNAKE!
- mushroom mushroom
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
(In Africa predictable answers are easy - I'll avoid those & name beasts that don't appear on banknotes & which brought delight)
Chimpanzee (Uganda)
Banded rubber frog (Mozambique)
Springhare (South Africa)
Coypu (Czechia)
Reindeer (Norway)
(In Africa predictable answers are easy - I'll avoid those & name beasts that don't appear on banknotes & which brought delight)
Chimpanzee (Uganda)
Banded rubber frog (Mozambique)
Springhare (South Africa)
Coypu (Czechia)
Reindeer (Norway)
Gmail users, take note and change your settings.
Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Gmail users, take note and change your settings.
Parabéns Angola! 11.11.1975-11.11.2025 Um prazer te ter conhecido quase a metade da tua via.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Parabéns Angola! 11.11.1975-11.11.2025 Um prazer te ter conhecido quase a metade da tua via.
Bit rich coming from the person who was VP when the 1996 Constitution was approved and was the first president to be elected with that Constitution in force.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Mbeki calls for change in South Africa’s presidential election process
During an address on Saturday, former president Thabo Mbeki said a National Dialogue was urgently needed to solve South Africa’s many crises and called for a reform of the country's presidential elect...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Bit rich coming from the person who was VP when the 1996 Constitution was approved and was the first president to be elected with that Constitution in force.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Nice juxtaposition of skeets here. #halloween #puppies
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Nice juxtaposition of skeets here. #halloween #puppies
Formerly known as Prince.
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Formerly known as Prince.
Everyday State & Democracy in Africa, ed. Wale Adebanwi, now open access. Includes my chapter 'Disputing Democracy & Challenging the State in Mozambique' based on fieldwork around the 2013-16 insurgency.
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/
Everyday State and Democracy in Africa : Ethnographic Encounters
Bottom-up case studies, drawn from the perspective of ordinary Africans’ experiences with state bureaucracies, structures, and services, reveal how citizens and states define each other.This volume ex...
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Everyday State & Democracy in Africa, ed. Wale Adebanwi, now open access. Includes my chapter 'Disputing Democracy & Challenging the State in Mozambique' based on fieldwork around the 2013-16 insurgency.
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/
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This, common sense could have told us in academia with out a study.
When will common sense about AI return to universities?
When will common sense about AI return to universities?
'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2
Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds
One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This, common sense could have told us in academia with out a study.
When will common sense about AI return to universities?
When will common sense about AI return to universities?
Reposted by Justin Pearce
Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.
Please follow for updates and collection highlights!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Please follow for updates and collection highlights!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.
Please follow for updates and collection highlights!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
Please follow for updates and collection highlights!
hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...
My reaction to the Moldova election results: Maia who?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Share your reaction to the Moldova election results
We would like to hear from people in Moldova and what they think about Maia Sandu’s Action and Solidarity party (PAS) winning the election
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My reaction to the Moldova election results: Maia who?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."
October 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."
Reposted by Justin Pearce
can't wait for kids 20 years from now to create carefully handcrafted visual media that looks like creepy AI slop and call it 2020s aesthetics
October 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
can't wait for kids 20 years from now to create carefully handcrafted visual media that looks like creepy AI slop and call it 2020s aesthetics
Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...
September 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...
Reposted by Justin Pearce
September 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reading Zille's response to this, I'm struck by how she digs herself ever further into her delusional sub-Trumpian reading of South African politics.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
A DA saga — the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane
In this extract from James Selfe’s memoir, he charts the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane in the Democratic Alliance and the role of Helen Zille.
www.dailymaverick.co.za
September 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reading Zille's response to this, I'm struck by how she digs herself ever further into her delusional sub-Trumpian reading of South African politics.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The more interesting question to discuss is why British people on the whole are so averse to ID cards, which co-exist with democracy and freedom in many other countries.
Compulsory ID cards are an expensive threat to democracy and freedom.
Discussing that on @bbc5live.bsky.social at 9am
Discussing that on @bbc5live.bsky.social at 9am
September 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The more interesting question to discuss is why British people on the whole are so averse to ID cards, which co-exist with democracy and freedom in many other countries.
It's taken him this long to realise?
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's taken him this long to realise?
Not weird at all. I cannot imagine listening to a podcast nor to an audiobook. Radio is like that annoying person who talks too much.
My weird secret, I don't like podcasts. I never listened to radio, I don't like background noise. I don't even listen to music much, though I enjoy it when I am focused on it. When I commuted I used bird song to drown out other people's conversations
Wait, do normal people not commute, do housework, pop to the post office, cook dinner etc? That’s c.3-4 hours podcast time every day for me.
September 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Not weird at all. I cannot imagine listening to a podcast nor to an audiobook. Radio is like that annoying person who talks too much.
As a vegan I understand. I recently ate fake meat for the first time in ages (it was the only vegan thing on the menu) & regretted it for the rest of the day. Processed fake food is not the way to promote veganism.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘It’s not our moment’
Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a vegan I understand. I recently ate fake meat for the first time in ages (it was the only vegan thing on the menu) & regretted it for the rest of the day. Processed fake food is not the way to promote veganism.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
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Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog
Journal of Southern African Studies
Publishes leading research concerning the history, economics, sociology, demography and anthropology of Southern Africa.
jsas.blog
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Applications are now open for the 2025 Colin Murray Award. Deadline: 30 September 2025. The award supports post-doctoral researchers to carry out original ‘engaged field research’ in Southern Africa. Please see the link below for more details jsas.blog
One of the creepiest things about Facebook is when it's the birthday of a long-dead friend. No problem with the 'happy heavenly birthday' or 'missing you always', but it's the comments like 'HBD have a blast, mate' sent by someone who's been out of contact for so long that the death passed them by.
September 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
One of the creepiest things about Facebook is when it's the birthday of a long-dead friend. No problem with the 'happy heavenly birthday' or 'missing you always', but it's the comments like 'HBD have a blast, mate' sent by someone who's been out of contact for so long that the death passed them by.
New development in the MAGA-Boere crossover?
August 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New development in the MAGA-Boere crossover?