Don't miss our #ECAS2023 panel "Liberation armies' imagined futures in southern Africa" on Saturday a.m. & p.m.: 9 papers on military training, exile & #ColdWar connections between #SouthAfrica#Angola#Zimbabwe#Mozambique. Thanks @JSAS_Editors for funds!
https://t.co/3KXLwHO5eB
We welcome proposals for papers on our panel "Liberation armies' imagined futures in southern Africa" at #ECAS2023 in Cologne: Armies as places of imagination that drew on colonial experience & education, pan-Africanism, nationalism & Cold War exchange.
https://t.co/3KXLwHO5eB
On Women's Day in South Africa this article by @MarthaEvans16 remembers Lilian Ngoyi, a leader of the Women's March of 9 August 1956, whose name we found commemorated at the MK training centre in Camalundu, Malanje province, Angola (Photo: @drjustinpearce)
https://t.co/HhoOqdyRaO
Fascinating photos of a little-known connection: Angolans, probably FNLA or UNITA, being trained in Tunisia. Did they leave the uniforms in Tunisia when they went home? Thank you @MedDhiaH for posting these & to @mininghistory for bringing to our attention.
📢Job opportunities!
We're hiring two Departmental Lecturers in Development Studies to teach on our MPhil in Development Studies and develop their research.
🗓️Deadline to apply is 23 May: https://t.co/EnP28Heeii
Great opportunity for two positions in @ODID_QEH We are looking forward receiving two great people to teach in the MPhil and develop their research for two or three years: https://t.co/ih633Sbnyz
How was the concept of 'youth' used by Mozambique's leaders after independence in 1975?
Johanna M. Wetzel (@ODID_QEH) describes her #Oralhistory project, and its recent support from @RoyalHistSoc's #ecr grants programme: new on the blog https://t.co/lCL6DhGsUX
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Remembering Paulo Lara & the enormous contribution made by him & his sister Wanda to documenting the history of #Angola's anticolonial struggle. His generosity greatly enriched our own research project.
Interesting - we're all keen to find international connections in liberation history, but this is a timely reminder to check facts. tl;rl: Machel is in that photo, but not Putin nor Mnangagwa.
https://t.co/iOgXlzPSJl
Our Global Soldiers in the Cold War project - joint w @SussexUni - focuses on the men & women of the Cold War-era liberation armies in southern Africa & the global exchanges of ideas that shaped them - check out their website & follow them @global_soldiers https://t.co/h5ywif4HQl
14-month postdoc position at @SussexGlobal to conduct oral historical & ethnographic research on veterans of South African liberation movement armies. Deadline 24 February.
https://t.co/6uH44dJpD3
Badges made by liberation movements, socialist governments & solidarity movements were exchanged & kept as souvenirs. These from the collection of ZIPRA veteran Charles Makhuya show Lenin, Agostinho Neto🇦🇴& logos of SWAPO 🇳🇦& ZAPU🇿🇼.
More on our website:
https://t.co/9HIiHxrFMR
#Zimbabwe#ZPRA army training with a Soviet advisor at Boma, eastern #Angola, late 1970s. From the personal archive of Vladimir F. Lebedev, a Soviet military specialist who worked with ZPRA. More photos in the 'Images of Solidarity' section of our website: https://t.co/R6VZsDOYVF
16 December 1983: South African exiles celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the ANC's liberation army Umkhonto we Sizwe in the chilly winter at Moscow's Novodevichy cemetery. More photos in the 'images of solidarity' section of our website:
https://t.co/R6VZsDOYVF