Charlie Thomas

@BwanaSakkarani

Professor, African Military Historian, Managing Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine.

Montgomery, AL
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2014.

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    Today I examined 's awesome PhD-thesis on the skull of Mkwawa at Cambridge - an incredible and meticulously researched study of the only human skull to be mentioned in the Versailles Treaty. Now we only have to wait for the book...

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    I'd insert the AllianceOfMagicians.jpg here but this trash isn't even worth the effort. Must be goddamn nice to have this shameless a grift and this gullible of marks.

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    Excellent and important thread for Africa watchers.

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    Man, I have just been finishing Suyi's series and came over to his twitter account to see this. Can't say I am not excited to see it coming my way!

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    Very happy to announce that my book "US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa (A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988-1994)" is forthcoming in May 2020!

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    'University of Ghent, History Department, three-year postdoctoral fellowship, researching the aftermath of in ' - [With Prof. Felicitas Becker] - The deadline for applications is March 31, 2020.

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    Is it possible that people who immediately imagine vast conspiracy theories just have a very limited experience with the actual organizational and bureaucratic incompetence that abounds in the world?

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    Also, a NY Times opinion columnist was a disinformation amplifier tonight. If editors are going to overreact in controlling the tweets of their employees, this would be a good place to start.

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    "Being elite neither grants individuals a license to ignore, perceive themselves to be “above,” or feel unconstrained by rules nor empowers units to selectively choose roles and tasks or policy enforcement." Elite v Elitism

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    'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa

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    Weird. Historians use the same phrase! IS THIS INTERDISCIPLINARITY???

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    It's a sign of how crazy the news cycle is right now that the United States three days ago barred immigration from the largest economy in Africa--a quarter of the continent's population is now barred from the US--and almost nobody is talking about it.

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    Kenya's retired President Daniel arap Moi is dead, according to President Uhuru Kenyatta who has sent condolences to the family - 411

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    This is a very strange paragraph to leave floating out there with no actual names or quotes attached to it!

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    How differently we as historians treat perpetrators in colonial campaigns compared to those of 20th century genocides - not least because the latter are criminalized while the former were awarded medals and get to write their own history.

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    For those who need to hear it today: The is wildly inefficient, seemingly random, and institutionally broken. There are more people who deserve jobs than people who get one, and *no one* is entitled to one.

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    Will be launching my book on 9 March 2020 in the Graham Wallis Room, Old Building . Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith will be the discussant (). In the meantime, here is a link to the book on the publisher's website:

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    3 February 1969: Dr. Eduardo Mondlane, founder of FRELIMO liberation movement in , was assassinated by a mail bomb in Dar es Salaam

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