#AFRICA

Sam Adeyemi

sam_adeyemi

1.I had a classmate in high school who decided beginning of one term to leave his old friends and to move with the brightest students in class. We were surprised.

Kim Tommy

KimTommy92

Celebrating Dr Gaokgatlhe Mirriam Tawane- the FIRST Black Woman to receive her PhD in #palaeoanthropology in South Africa in 2012! She is currently the Curator of Plio-Pleistocene palaeontology at @DitsongMuseumSA#DiversityInFieldWork

Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.

hector_drummond

The UK govt has only three strategies with Covid. Herd immunity/live with it, lockdown for total elimination, or lockdown until a vaccine is found.1/9 But the last is just suicidal

Aina Elenu Shokoshoko 🥂

AinaTalks

My friend mentioned touring west Africa by road and I was sold, so I packed my bags some 2 weeks after he left and got on the road with another

Tulika Singh, MPH

singh_tulika

Colleagues in #science – thank you for your efforts in developing life-saving technologies/knowledge. Though many of our innovations depend on patents to move from bench to society, this crisis demands

Dr. Tayo Oyedeji

tayooye

My first startup (LessonTab) failed.Here are few lessons from the failure.- A thread My partner and I met in Atlanta. We moved to Lagos, Nigeria to build a startup that

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

zionists be like... "Zionism emerged just as European nationa were dividing Africa. Taking advantage of the European interest in colonization, [Theodore] Herzl sought the backing of European governments in establishing

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Pfizer study shows vaccine should work against this B.1.1.7 UK and South Africa variant of SARS-CoV-2. mRNA sequence in Pfizer vaccine likely propietary but Pfizer took a virus with the

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

New data from Novavax vaccine just showed that UK & esp South African variants are more problematic in real world than lab experiments suggested. Implications are profound for 2021 and

TerminatorAim

AimTerminator

#TRP - South Africa (50% interest) - updated analysis & volumetrics due this week for Algoa-Gamtoos license from New Age the operator. Namibia (80% interest) - blocks 1910A, 1911 &

Jonathan Chait

jonathanchait

I've seen a lot of praise for this Kevin Williamson piece on Trump and the GOP. I obviously agree with the "Trump is bad" sentiment, which accounts for its popularity

Frugal Local 🇿🇦

FrugalLocal

Property and tax thoughts - a #THREAD. I don't claim that I am the expert in this, but I have some thoughts on this. Here goes.... Note that there is

matthewsyed

matthewsyed

1/ Thread on Empire and Racism and need for contextMy dad grew up under the Indian Raj, and endured racism in the UK. But he loves Britain. Why? Because he

Jacob Denhollander

JJ_Denhollander

I do love American Christians freaking out about the future of Christianity as if it's up to them, ignoring the obvious reality that the future of Christianity lies with our

Lauri Myllyvirta

laurimyllyvirta

South Africa's power grid has long been in a deadlock of extremely unreliable and polluting power, corruption and pro-coal special interests that kneecap the entire economy. Now a utility death

Mark Essien

markessien

1/ The fate of sub-saharan Africa rests on Nigeria. It's the biggest and most influential country. If Nigeria is able to fix itself to become like Indonesia or Brazil, the

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