#Africa

GullahMuseumSC

GullahSc

In 1931, Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner recorded a 5-line song by a Gullah Geechee woman named Amelia Dawley of Harris Neck, GA. It was one of many recordings he made

Theo Sanderson

theosanderson

1/ Today has brought a lot of news about 'variants', as we discover community transmission of B.1.351 (SA variant) in the UK. But some of the people who study these

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

A case of the '#SouthAfrica' variant has been detected in the UK. There's also talk about a 501Y mutation in Wales.It's getting confusing!First: all 3 of these 501Y mutations are

fadwa 🖤

litfever

everyone's gonna be losing their shit about Dune, which simultaneously borrows from and erases both my culture and religion and i'm already fuming at the thought so time to mute

𓂀 Llewellyn Devereaux 𓂀

MasterLui_

What the @AfCFTA will mean for the African continent and why it's important to pay attention to this. [Thread with some background - Economics 101]#AfCFTA The top 3 economies of

Nathan Ruser

Nrg8000

This meme includes Muammar Gaddafi, who deciseively not assasinated by France, indeed none of the people listed as assasinated (at least since 2000) were assasinated by France. France's legacy of

Mzala Tom

tlsibanda

1. SIVALO MAHLANGUA thread....King Mzilikazi encountered the Mahlangu people at a time when they lived at Ndubazi in present day Mpumalanga province of South Africa. The Mahlangu chieftaincy is established

Dena Grayson, MD, PhD

DrDenaGrayson

BAD NEWS: 2 cases of a new "more transmissible" #coronavirus variant linked to #SouthAfrica identified in the UK.This new variant appears to have *mutated further* than the new B.1.1.7 variant

Edmond Sanganyado

ESanganyado

Oversimplification of nuanced phenomena in scientific literature by tourist scientists does a great disservice on science policy in Africa. @GlobalYAcademy #scicomm #scienceandtechnology #AcademicTwitter A thread 1/n African governments oft

Radio Free Amanda 余美娜

catcontentonly

Chinese propaganda poster from 1970."All reactionaries are paper tigers / People of the world unite to defeat the American invaders and their running dogs!" "People of the world unite to

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

As we show in our testing data, many countries in Africa do not test widely.I think this could mean that the COVID death toll on the African continent is substantially

Stephen West

Stephen_A_West

1. George Washington Williams, who died #otd in 1891, was a trail-blazing historian.He wrote a 2-volume History of the Negro Race in America (1882-3) & The History of the Negro

Houriiyah Tegally 🇲🇺

houzhou

Our report on the genomic characterisation of the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in South-Africa is now out in Nature Medicine, a study which was crucial to confidently describe

Danielle

DanielleRowe81

I just bought a globe light for my son and was testing it out when I noticed a place in central Africa, called CHAD. In the above photos you can

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Remembering the 212 enslaved Africans who drowned on this day in 1794 when ship they were on, Sao Jose Paquete de Africa, got caught between two reefs off the Camps

Michael Shurkin

MichaelShurkin

1. My apologies to folks who follow me for defense and/or Africa stuff. This week--not to speak of the past 4 years--has been all about watching the political pathologies I've

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