#AFRICA

iSIOMA

isiomanb

It is foolishness, and intellectual laziness to think someone will actually give up on a system they largely benefit from.This is what Nigerians expect from their leaders. If you are

Koshiek Karan

iamkoshiek

Dirty Sexy Money. The business of OnlyFans, stripped bare [Thread] A good girl gone badOnlyFans was never intended for adult content. It originally started out in 2016 as a platform

AfroMarxist

_AfroMarxist

This is going to be a mega thread looking at Liberation and Socialism in Africa. Maina Wa Kinyatti talks of the underground Communist/Workers Party in Kenya Onyango Oloo talks

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

Interesting thread, but I don't think ecosocialists or degrowthers are arguing that if German socialists had come to power the world would be green by now. Socialism is not automatically

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

FULL THREAD on why #LockdownsKill Covid is *REAL* but lockdowns kill more equivalent lives than the virus:Here’s how:1)https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1343506871257346049 2)As of 27 Dec 2020 “only” 388 people (every death is too

Nic Maclellan

MaclellanNic

Sixty one years ago, France conducted its first atmospheric nuclear test, codename Gerboise Bleue. This was the first of four tests held in the Sahara desert at #Reggane, Algeria. As

Krishnan

cvkrishnan

Let me be as frank as possible @dhume. India and many other countries find global liberalism and certain forms of universalism as itself a form of conspiracy by developed countries

𝓳𝓸𝓮 (eternal like limit)

thekingoftimbs

Thread of great moments in Pharoah Sanders's music Here on the original take of Ascension, issued as Edition II, Pharoah concerns himself in creating soundscapes defined by full and thoroughly

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

The Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium, regarded mostly as the cruelest man in historyA THREAD King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation

Emeka Azuka Okoye

EmekaOkoye

Well said @asemota.Something that was not mentioned deeply was culture. Does our government have the organisational culture to embrace digital?Very few people know that a company I worked for in

Ronald Richman

RichmanRonald

Some rambling thoughts on COVID-19 modelling.Since COVID-19 began, I've seen a few different *types* of models being used to make forecasts. SEIR (susceptible/exposed/infected/recovered) models have been used quite extensively for

Siphosami Malunga

SiphoMalunga

1/ Everyone talks about Tuku the musician.But what struck me more than anything was his service to others & to causes he believed wld improve the lives of others.A few

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

The debate on Israeli responsibility on COVID vaccines in West Bank and Gaza is an opportunity to think of the competing and overlapping frameworks: occupation vs. apartheid. [Thread] 2/ On

Katrin Bennhold

kbennhold

“We were following it like a soccer match.”When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, far-right extremists across the Atlantic cheered.Jan. 6 has put the spotlight on the transnational links of the far

Dictator Watch

Citizen_Alert1

A senator in Kenya asks: Who is Murathe? A rhetorical question no doubt but a good opportunity to define Muratheists & Muratheism.Murathe is Svengali, short & simple. To understand who

Kelvin

realkelvin07

In 2012 I flew with Vinay Mathani, the Group Managing Director & CEO of Churchgate Group on Arik Air from Calabar to Lagos, during our conversation, he told me that

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