#African

Andrew Wehrman

ProfWehrman

In July of 1776 the entire of city of Boston was closed so they could safely inoculate for smallpox. It lasted months and no one could leave once it began.

Derrick Wilmore Jr.

CoachWilmore_

Evidence that Africans were in America before Columbus: To begin, in 1921, Leo Wiener was the first modern professor to expose the link of Africans in America. You can read

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

Bang'uMhlaba

aycawe

Sobukwe, the economic tasks of the 1949 Programme of Action remain relevanta. the establishment of commercial, industrial and transport enterprises in the rural and urban areas b. Consolidation of industrial

Rackeb Tesfaye

RackebT

The majority of news outlets have framed the success of African countries response to COVID19 as puzzling & unlikelyWhy? Well, it doesn’t fit w this ‘deficit’ narrative the media uses

Artdepartment 🪐

Artdepartment_

African gamers working hard in or for the community (a thread)#AfricanGaming #ZAEsports #BHM Yvng Savage: @YvngSavage0402 - First African Sponsored by Redbull.- @GoliathGamingZA Fifa Player.- Ranked 73rd in the

Vuyani Ndzishe

Vuya_Ndzishe

Learning more about environmentalism and environmental justice has led me to political ecology. And how fvcked we are in the future if we do not deal with climate change in

Liz Szabo

LizSzabo

Among other achievements, Dr. Tony Fauci was one of the architects of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (created under Republican President George Bush). PEPFAR has saved millions

The Native

Zuko_Godlimpi

In hostels around Durban area [Giblands, Wemmer] there’s history of antagonism towards AmaMpondo on the logic of “migrant labourers displacing Natal job seekers.” The anti-immigrant riots in Durban central can

Fenit Nirappil

FenitN

At anti-D.C. statehood press conference, Senator Steve Daines (R-Mt.) urges lawmakers to "go out to where the real people are at across the country and ask them where they think."

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

Things are getting complicated with variants.The problem is that there are not one or two variants - there are many.A short thread on varaints and mutations. (Naming them after places

James Bessen

JamesBessen

Some people claim there is no systemic discrimination in the US. Our new paper https://ssrn.com/abstract=3628729 finds that a recent policy change reveals how much institutions have been perpetuating pay inequities.

ada // men suck era

ADASBACKUP

hi if you aren’t black, but writing a black character in your WIP, you might wanna check out this thread so you don’t accidentally write something offensive! /gen HAIRjust a

Shola

jayythedope

African women see having sex as doing men favours but we not ready for this conversation. Firstly, sex is to be enjoyed by two parties. If you don't want the

Babátúndé Yékú

james_yeku

Happy to announce that Adeshina Afolayan (Philosophy, @UniIbadan) and I co-edited a special issue for @AfricaJacs on the films of Nigerian filmmaker @tkelani, with @iwalesino, Matthew Brown, Alessandro Jedlowski, Ayo

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

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