Emily Lynn Osborn

Historian @UChicago. Research: West Africa, artisans, technology, aluminum, gender, Anthropocene. Tasty eats: cebbu jënn, banku, fonio. Mom: 1+iya beji

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

Our partners at @wara_warc made this program possible! Thanks Mariane, Ousmane, Amdy, et al.

Nine weeks in Dakar https://t.co/B5Dmb8Cz49

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

Hello @Uber_Support . I am now heading into DAY FIVE of trying to get help with this issue. How can my Teen already be registered as a driver for Uber? Once again, the screen shot below.

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

@Uber_Support Still trying to figure out what's going on with my teen. You DMed that you had contacted me but don't see those messages in the app or in email. I am still worrying how authorized a 14 year old to drive for Uber! How can that be?

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

Osborn quotes one European observer in Sierra Leone: "Roads, roads, roads..they are in urgent need here."

Colonizers were unable to recognize the tools/systems that people in Africa had previously established to transport people & goods.

#SHOT2022

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

Osborn emphasizes the economic and political motivations that drove engineering projects in West Africa.

She emphasizes, however, that such projects built upon pre-existing African engineering work-i.e. efforts to reshape the landscape, create transport networks, etc.

#SHOT2022

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

Hello again, @SocHistTech friends! We've got a busy day of #histSTM/#histtech panels lined up here at #SHOT2022.

I'm starting off w/a panel on Engineering & Empire sponsored by the Prometheans SIG & organized by 2020-21 LHL fellow @ellanfei!

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

Our next speaker, @EmilyLOsborn, who begins by highlighting the centrality of engineering (both social & political) to the European imperialist project in British & French West Africa.

#SHOT2022

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

@the_clark We have had a wonderful and inspiring visit to The Clark! Thank you.

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

@LisaALindsay @GeorgeNugybaby Perhaps tangential, but you could take up the Nigerian Youth Service Corps (NYSC) which was founded in 1973 after the Biafran war to promote unity by Gen Gowon. Footage on youtube https://t.co/FGcVYBbsoB & https://t.co/zdwmg0KJUL
It still runs&has a branch for diasporic youth.

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

@C_Wolbrecht @JessePalmerTV @BachelorABC It still makes me laugh when I watch it. So random.

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

@markessien Hi, great map, can you share its source, origin? All best.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

the spread of COVID-19 visualized

[UChicago CISSR @UChicagoCISSR]

Congrats to CISSR Board member @EmilyLOsborn!

[Cécile Yézou @cecileyezou]

BHM Tribute Day #28:
Traci Parker - Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement. Her work centers the integration of white collar work and consumption from the 1930s to the 1980s. She is also an amazing advisor, professor, mentor. #BlackHistoryMonth

[UChicago Civic Engagement @UChiEngagement]

FEBRUARY 10: Join a discussion with @UChicagoMed doctors on COVID-19 and its effects on patient care and hospital operations at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC). Register here: https://t.co/aNssV9ST1u #partnersinimpact

[Chukwuma, onye ọrụ ugbo Taoist @ChukBartholomew]

“Europe is not my centre.

Why be a sunflower and turn towards the sun? I myself am the sun.”
-Sembene Ousmane

[Scott Reese @ScottRe24274617]

@JAH_editors @grgrymann @Columbia @EmilyLOsborn @UChicago Here, here!

[The Journal of African History @JAH_editors]

Many thanks are also due to outgoing JAH West Africa Editor @grgrymann (@Columbia) and Book Reviews Editor @EmilyLOsborn (@UChicago) who have completed their three-year terms. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication! #twitterstorians

[Ethiopian Airlines @flyethiopian]

Your Excellency Dr.Arkebe Oqubay,thank you for your kind message.
https://t.co/aD7WFaenhZ

[Africa Research Inst @AfricaResearch]

'Progress in rolling out of national power grids has stalled across Africa' - @afrobarometer https://t.co/pCNnp908ih

[Emily Lynn Osborn @EmilyLOsborn]

Wowowow! Thanks @DetroittoAccra