Scholarship shapes structure. From the analysis of late colonialism to a mandate for urban change, the Mamdani legacy underscores that ideas do not stay in books and can be reclaimed in practice.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

“May you inspire many and blaze a trail!”

The person who pencilled in personal notes in this out-of-print library book about the liberal party with the word “crap” next to all the wild claims that the author makes: YOU have made my day 😂

Autumn View 🍂 #CambridgeUL

Writing chaos

Archives!

Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year

Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

Delighted that a book project I was working on will soon be out in print with CUP elements.

Please do not follow the account below, it is a fake/ impersonation account. I have reported it.

Advocate Tembeka Ngucakaitobi at the #LSE human rights lecture tonight.

Tonight at the London School of Economics Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers a tour de force lecture on the South African tradition of human rights with its distinct revolutionary genealogy and on South Africa’s ICJ case on the genocide in Gaza. #LSEhumanrights

A wonderful experience guest lecturing African intellectual history for the Mphil in African Studies core course at the University of Cambridge today. @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

Arabic Calligraphy. Joys of a new leisure pursuit . The qalam ( reed pen) might sometime be dipped in ink mid-way of completing a letter and requires a degree like precision. Still a novice but very therapeutic!

Finally, some blue skies