#African

John McDermott

johnpmcdermott

Just filed my last piece of the year. Bloody knackered but I feel so lucky to do this job. Among other things, in 2020 I’ve reported on:— How African politics

Jessica (J.A.M.) Aiwuyor 💫

JAMAiwuyor

African storytellers often use animals stories to teach life lessons. The benefit of growing up in the Black south is that our ancestors and elders passed down this knowledge. More

W. Gyude Moore

gyude_moore

Africa's position in the New "Cold War" - ThreadAs deputy chief of staff to President Sirleaf, I once took my team to one of the urban slums to talk about

Ovigwe Eguegu

OvigweEguegu

The outcomes of Chinese FM Wang Yi's visit to the Democratic Rep. of Congo is remarkable.1.) Belt and Road Initiative(BRI)Earlier today, D.R.Congo became the 45th African country to sign

Rohit

threedotsandash

In 1822, the American Colonization Society—a group of politicians, religious leaders, and slaveholders—established Liberia as an African homeland for freed American slaves. The slaveholders were worried about the "corrupting influe

Gareth Murphy

garethmurphyIE

Short thread on social media: I had a short comradely exchange with my old friend @paulmurphy_TD this morning on social media reflecting real world schisms and it caused me to

What a Life

ShoMadjozi

The disconnect between African countries who had different colonizers is illustrated best by the lack of flights between us. Mozambique and Tanzania are Neighbouring countries but there are no direct

Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ

padresj

Interesting note about the GA election:The runoff system, proposed by segregationist Denmark Groover, was adopted in 1964 after the US Supreme Court struck down the "county unit system."The CUS, in

BLACKCATHOLIC

_BLACKCATHOLIC

Happy #BlackCatholicHistoryMonth 2020!And with the start of November we enter into that glorious month celebrated as Black Catholic History Month! My apostolate annually celebrates this good month to share even

Stephen

mrstephendeng

Sure many of you have seen this 'startup emotions' cycle based on Gartner's Hype Cycle. I believe that initial spike is especially misleading and potentially dangerous in for African startups.

Fear Bavaria🔴⚪

InshallahSZN

African men need to take Western red pill content with a grain of salt. We don't have the same issues I shall list some considerations below...A thread 1. Our black

Smithsonian NMAAHC

NMAAHC

#OnThisDay in 1929, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. By 1963, King had become the most nationally recognized civil rights leader in the country. #APeoplesJourney #ANationsStory

𝕽𝖎𝖈𝖔

RICOLANI

Africans vs. Caribbeans, African-Americans vs. Africans, African Americans vs. Black British, Dominicans vs. Haitians, Caribbean-Americans vs AA, Afro Latinx vs. Non Afro-Latinxs Nigerians vs. Ghanaians, Jamaicans vs. Nigerians, Eritreans v

#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia

wmnjoya

Kenya is so toxic because we tell Eurocentric stories about ourselves. In tourism, in education, everyone from civil servants to parents to lovers repeats degrading stories about ourselves. And we

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Ancient West African kingdoms Arts._Ancient West African were skilled potters and metalworkers. Some of them worked with brass, woods,bronze and gold which explain their history. Potters in the kingdom of

David Hundeyin

DavidHundeyin

The 10 Commandments of African Cognitive Dissonance1. We want to trade more with each other via the AfCFTA, the AU passport and someday a common currency.We want to trade less

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