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Visual Verse

visual_verse

Writers, here's a short thread sharing some editorial observations and tips about what catches our eye. This is apropos of the fact that the last few issues of Visual Verse

🏔️🌨️Snowy Steppes Seeker🌨️🏔️

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Finished "Top Secret War" today, its the official history of Rhodesia's Selous Scouts as written by their commander. I'll be doing an ongoing thread on my thoughts about the book

SURYA

suryaaa001

How NaMo is Stopping the Africanisation of India.-----------------------------------Very few would have realised that India was on a path of religious Africanisation ,i e, becoming another Africa in terms of religious

Dr Cathryn Lewis

cathrynlewis

This will present work from ERICA-SA – Evolving Risk Factors for Cancers in African Populations where I’m a proud collaboratorStudying breast, oesophageal squamous & cervical cancer.Funded by South Africa MRC

Gustavo de Carvalho

gb_decarvalho

Yesterday, South Africa hosted a thematic debate during its last presidency month at the UN Security Council, focusing on Security Sector Reform. The discussion was a great initiative for reaffirming

Truthist

LifeToDryBones

History Of Israel...in a nutshellFirst of all, scriptures tell us of The Israelites going into slavery in Deuteronomy 28, into all nations.It also goes on to tell us that we

Paul Crudd.

killcole

This is infinitely more productive behaviour from a billionaire than philanthropy, imo.At the societal scale, philanthropy's only significant impact is the laundering of billionaire's reputations and an on-going justification for

Geoff Wade

geoff_p_wade

South Africa: African National Congress appoints CCP united front figure Dr. Xiaomei Havard 张晓梅 to South African Parliamenthttps://www.pa.org.za/person/xiaomei-havard/andhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomei_Havardandhttps://www.sapeo

GENIUS

General_wongie

Continuing.... Between 1917 and 1924 Dr Banda while in South Africa was combining working and evening classes. Whilst working at Boksburg Mine as a clerk he attended classes at Crown

Joanne Bell

jobellerina

Claudia Roden, a British Jew whose family (originally Syrian) were made refugee from Egypt, is one of the world's most celebrated cookery writers. Her beloved blue 'Book of Jewish Food'

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff

lempika7

@NBA International Basketball Operations SVP Kim Bohuny provided critical context and insights for @SOAS_CISD Basketball Diplomacy Africa #oralhistory Project, helping us all to better understand the league’s growth in #Africa,

Willem Petzer

willempet

Many people do not realize the gravity of what we are witnessing now in Washington DC.It is the end of American conservatism as we know it, and it will have

Sabyasachi Kar

Sabya_K

Thread. Agriculture as shock absorber.In all the discussions on Indian agriculture and farming, one aspect of this sector gets largely overlooked.Its role as a social safety net.1/11 For the poor

Edward Norton

EdwardNorton

Today’s meditation: MLK Day isn’t like Labor Day, it’s not a holiday from work. It’s the opposite. It’s a day dedicated TO work. To continue his work. To read his

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Decolonization and Growth: A brief thread.Let's see how some large post-colonial nations are doing economically, compared to their former colonizers, since the 1960s. 2/First, Indonesia vs. Netherlands.Indonesia is still at

Alex Simon

AlexGSimon

THREAD I was excited to see the NYT editorial board take on the colonial undercurrents in foreign aid. Then I read the piece, and wound up even more frustrated than

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