Sam Anderson

Historian of northwest Africa 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇲🇷🇸🇳🇲🇱

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

Looking for summer reading? May I suggest my new article, “From Algiers to Timbuktu: Multi-Local Research in Colonial History Across the Saharan Divide,” now out in History in Africa https://t.co/pDU0o7wwi7

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

A trustworthy way to donate to earthquake relief in Morocco:

[Kaniela Ing @KanielaIng]

This may be the best reporting on a climate disaster that I have ever seen. https://t.co/UfmWZZqQp8

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

Yet another miss by geographic determinists

-Islam arrived in east africa earlier than it did in west africa, but spread faster in the latter b'se of the actions of local agents -NOT geography!

-and (i cant repeat this enough) malaria never prevented European colonization

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

Moroccan colonial extraction in the Western Sahara, visible from the air:

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

Super proud of my student and his prizewinning research!

[The Claremont Colleges Library @honnoldlibrary]

“My research paper used the William Honnold Papers to explore Pomona College’s financial ties to colonial mining projects in Southern Africa and North America.” - Arenaria Cramer, @pomonacollege, #LURA First-Year Award Winner

🏆 https://t.co/Ln663P1bNN

[Vinny Thomas @vinn_ayy]

this is not remotely close to being one of nature’s most unnerving birds. Be serious

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

I sure wish @nytopinion could find more tenured full professors to say the things I said, but I wish even more as a discipline that we might instead value the people who say what I said enough to consider them for tenure line positions.

I can say with some confidence, we don't.

[History in Africa @HistoryinAfrica]

Follow along as @samdejand connects the dots from multiple archival collections to piece together the significance of #OuldRouis's travels and impact on #médersa education across northwest Africa:
https://t.co/FuDe6KaTMQ

[CSSH @CSSHJournal]

In “Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia,” Anoush Tamar Suni shows how "the memory of the #ArmenianGenocide and contemporary violence against #Kurds are linked...in a century-long story of continuing violence."
https://t.co/cdZKIS3MPq

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

Seconded! Reading this during covid lockdown gave me a particularly deep kind of wanderlust.

[Caitlyn Olson @cm_olson]

I usually keep for-fun books and work books as distinct as possible, but Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao was a rare crossover. Sprightly, big-hearted, beautifully written essays about living in late-colonial Spanish Sahara.

[Jalal 𓂆 @JalalAK_jojo]

Wow #MAR

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

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[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

Thinking about Sembene Ousmane’s dedication in the one of the greatest novels on strike action, God’s Bits of Wood. A beautiful tribute to the struggle of Senegalese workers and comrades across the continent.

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

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[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

It's likely that, unless freed, one of the most prominent voices of the Arab Spring, British-Egyptian @alaa will die in prison during #Cop27, while world leaders including Biden are in Egypt, after a brutal imprisonment for almost a decade.

He didn't even get a consular visit.

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

It’s fun that my workplace has a masterpiece of modernist Mexican muralism; also fun to show students my favorite part, this baby centaur in the corner - so many emotions!

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

The mine still shows up on Google Maps.

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

I have no idea exactly why this diamond mine shares its name with Pomona College - Honnold came to California later in his life - but it’s a reminder that colonial exploitation and profits move in sometimes surprising directions, and African history is never too distant.

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

It’s part of a report, Diamond Deposits of German South West Africa, from 1914. From the William Honnold papers - a major donor to the Claremont Colleges whose name graces the library.

[Sam Anderson @samdejand]

Took a class to @honnoldlibrary today and thought I’d share my favorite document from Special Collections there: this map that says Pomona on it. What could it be?