#AFRICA

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇱🇸

MimiReeds

BaTalaote People They are an ethnic group found in the central district of Botswana and south-western parts of Zimbabwe in Mthwakazi/ Matebeleland South Province . They are part of a

Dan Hicks

profdanhicks

Joining the dots between Fallism and Restitution — a new op-ed by me and @nickmirzoeff in New African Magazinehttps://twitter.com/newafricanmag/status/1295239099566174208 ‘Fallism’ is an African movement – and one with a long

Attah of Nigeria🇳🇬

Akortainment

This is a story about girls that normally visit their boyfriend unannounced.I remember when my friend's ex came all the way from lokoja to Lagos unannounced. I don't know what

UrbanAfricaACC

UrbanAfricaACC

Why do cities matter? This is a question @EdgarPieterse is addressing in an input to the @UN Senior Management team today on The Future of Cities. Answer:• Central to new

Uncle Sena ™

senamisomoyo

Its #IPThursday with your Favourite Lawyer. Judging by my DMs, this is the most requested story yet, Shakira’s song Waka Waka.The question today, is who should own the rights to

Mattea Merta🕊

MatteaMerta

CCP Defense General Chi Haotian in 2002: "Only countries like the United States have the vast land to serve our need for mass colonization. Only by using special means to

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

A bit more on global debt issues, spurred by the @petersgoodman article.As noted in the NYT, debt service deferral cannot be the only way to help low income countries, as

KEPT THE FAITH, BABY! SI SE PUEDE!

JamesMWilliam18

THREADWhen you lose a titan, a hero, someone who taught you what moral courage looks like? It is a loss like no other.For me, that would be the Executive Director

Joshua Stein, philosophy, ethics, politics

thephilosotroll

Even if Rabbi Kahn's remarks were wrong (and I don't think there are; not sufficiently clear, maybe, but I get what he means w/o much effort), the idea that you

Dorsa Amir

DorsaAmir

A historical tidbit that demonstrates the predictive power of evolution — in 1862, a botanist sent Charles Darwin a beautiful & rare orchid from Madagascar (Angraecum sesquipedale) with an unusually long spur.

#Marcher

MarcherLord1

1/....#MARTOT stepping back a few years to 2017 and my Dad's on the British Lions tour to NZ with 25,000 other rugby mad drunkards. I went to South Africa on

Trevor Bedford

trvrb

After ~10 months of relative quiescence we've started to see some striking evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with a repeated evolutionary pattern in the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern emerging from the UK,

Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala1

Funny story. A couple of months ago a Famous Magazine sought me out to write an essay roughly on the theme of nature, which I love so I said absolutely.

Swansea Uni Ancient World

SUAncientWorld

Jebel Barkal Important landmark on the Nile in Nubia. Egyptian outpost C15th BCE, later an important Nubian centre. Remains of at least 13 temples, three palaces & pyramids - royal

David Cassidy

dpcassidyC3

The 'median' Christian in the world is not male but female, not white but brown, black, or Asian, 22 years old, in the developing world rather than the first world—and

khaltek

zineb_alaoui0

Activist morrocan women a thread:Kharboucha : opposed to l qayed ben 3icha, she rejected him many time and signed a song were she called him out soo bad,immaculate, shw paid

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