Historian of West Africa & Covid. Reluctant writer on inequality, past & present. Teacher. Reader. Gardener. Archive of work on Covid-19 in link below bio.
Joined April 2020
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Toby Green retweeted
This is a totally new level of madness, if true
New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.
The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.
WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
Toby Green retweeted
Delighted to finally hold my Latest book in my hands – *Obstacles to Sovereignty and Democracy in Kenya*, dedicated to Kenya's youth!
Toby Green retweeted
Que vitória @LulaOficial! Mais que vencer eleições, mas um sinal de esperança para o mundo, a democracia progressista e reparação histórica!
Toby Green retweeted
Depois que essa euforia acabar, precisamos agradecer a cada eleitor que, apesar das diferenças com Lula e com o PT, apertaram o 13 em favor de valores inegociáveis. Inclusive políticos do outro campo, mas que votaram 13. Muito obrigado a vocês também.
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Let us continue to pray together for peace. The day after tomorrow, on 27 October, let us join in spirit with the heads of churches and religious leaders who will gather in Assisi to mark the 40th anniversary of the meeting convened by Saint John Paul II. Never before has it been so clear that wars, as well as sowing death and destruction, impoverish and harm the world. May the Lord inspire choices of dialogue and peace! #PrayTogether
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URGENT! Surprise ! Power outage since last night in the Washington DC hotel where Brazilian elections are supposed to happen. Vote location changed!
"D'après Freud, ce qui caractérise le trauma est la conjonction de la surprise et de l'effroi. De ce point de vu, l'état d'exception déclare au prétexte du covid en 2020 représente une opération de traumatisation mondiale..."
2/3: "si l'intensité d'un trauma se mesure a la puissance de son déni, alors nous sommes loin d'être sortie de la séquence inaugure par le covid...le silence qui l'entoure est aussi bien ce qui assure que l'évènement s'enforce dans les psychés et, de la, gouverne tout."
lafabrique.fr/manuel-de-surv…, p.82
"If a trauma's intensity can be measured by the strength of its denial, then we are a long way from being free from the sequence inaugurated by Covid."
Just a note that this is starting at 530pm and not as the IHR website says 730am!
Looking forward!
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Join us tonight for our conversazione, GLOBAL HISTORY: WHAT NEXT?, at the Imperial and World History Seminar at the IHR, with Erika Melek Delgado, Richard Drayton, Toby Green, Chloe Ireton, and me - 5:30 pm, Pollard Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London.
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“É o bem-estar social que pacifica as sociedades e gera prosperidade”
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Toby Green retweeted
Another amazing review of The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle Over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa (@UChicagoPress 2025) by Toby Green in the American Historical Review #slaveryarchive
Toby Green retweeted
Hounding someone to suicide is obviously much worse than any amount of lying on your CV. Any non psychopath can see this.
Toby Green retweeted
While you were sleeping. Northwestern University is shutting down is 80-year-old program of African Studies as a research center. African students and students of African History come to @HowardU
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