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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-transform: none;">Dear STSAfrica subscribers,</span>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Together with Norman Schräpel, I launched this list in 2014 as a service by the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://lost-research-group.org/" target="_blank" title="https://lost-research-group.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lost-research-group.org&source=gmail&ust=1765871188920000&usg=AOvVaw1KVLr743IdJ-gdcWY8VQ0Z" data-outlook-id="aa5b1377-93cf-4ae9-bc24-40d56e466a19" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">LOST
</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">research group at Halle (Germany) for the wider STS community interested in Africa. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">In 2018, when I moved to
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/themes/sts-africa" target="_blank" title="https://wiser.wits.ac.za/themes/sts-africa" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wiser.wits.ac.za/themes/sts-africa&source=gmail&ust=1765871188920000&usg=AOvVaw3EXaMRs_EwrB00WtbdBfqn" data-outlook-id="0b4fd248-173a-4dd8-ac4e-896cb55c1819" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">WiSER</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> at
the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, the list continued to be curated from there.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Eleven years after its inception, it feels like the right moment to pass the curatorship on
to the next generation—also given that the list has become less active over the past few years.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">I am very grateful to Faeeza Ballim and Stephen Sparks, both in the
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/history/staff-research-associates-and-pdrfs/staff/" target="_blank" title="https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/history/staff-research-associates-and-pdrfs/staff/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/history/staff-research-associates-and-pdrfs/staff/&source=gmail&ust=1765871188920000&usg=AOvVaw1RgdTHyAxyJAqdkP0mlKbY" data-outlook-id="3d13d2d8-65c7-409d-9b71-d789c8753bcf" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Department
of History at the University of Johannesburg</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">, for agreeing to take over the curatorship of this list.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">With my very best wishes,<br>
Richard Rottenburg</span></p>
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