#AFRICA

PSLColumbiaSC

psl_sc

Today we mark the anniversary of the largest slave rebellion in South Carolina, The Stono Rebellion. On September 9th 1739 Jemmy aka Cato and 20 core group of warriors, who

Alexander Kruel

XiXiDu

If you want to gauge China's potential, look at Singapore. Singapore is essentially a 278 times smaller version of mainland China but with a significant headstart. A Singapore with 1.4

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

Concerning data from PHE today suggesting that sequencing shows that there are 11 cases of the UK variant (B117) identified that also have the E484K mutation (the one found in

Josh Marshall

joshtpm

Curious how many people caught this reference about people in Georgia who claim "we were here also" and will "take over your farm" under the Democrats. 2/ Confiscations of white

omar

_oromar

Statue of Dictator Haile Selassie in Harar has been destroyed, the first of many. Shoutout to Oromo youth of Harar, doing it for all of East Africa. Another statue

R K DAVID#🌍

RKDAVID1

"Investing in rural people is a long-term solution to so many of the problems we face today. Hunger, poverty, youth unemployment & forced migration – all have deep roots in

Nick Britten

Nick_Britten

Remembering Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby killed on this day at the Battle of Abu Klea 17th Jan 1885. Victorian soldier and adventurer he spoke serveral languages and was famous for adventurous

Great House

xspotsdamark

Here's a thread on the most enslaved African People of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. According to historical records, this groups combined constitute at least 90% of all enslaved Africans. So,

Mayur

hiteshtikoo

A THREAD for all the Brits out there... If your colonial history makes you feel guilty or you're made to feel guilty about it-Remember Turkey has run an empire for

Zecharias Zelalem

ZekuZelalem

My latest for @QZ: multi billion dollar heist? On April 28th Ethiopia signed a lucrative $3.6 billion US oil refinery deal with Greencomm Technologies...an American company with no experience whatsoever

Pretty Translator Sarah Moon (美女翻訳者セラムーン)

SarahKTranslate

One of the hardest concepts to explain to people who don't translate entertainment is that there is no perfect 1:1 translation for every single word/phrase that is consistently the same.

Andrew Mark Bennett

acandidworld

Excuse me, but Jews were an oppressed minority in the Muslim world for 1,300 years before the establishment of the State of Israel. Any narrative of Muslim-Jewish coexistence is only

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

BREAKING—Good & bad news—The Moderna #COVID19 vaccine fully protected against the UK #B117 variant... but was 6x less efficient at neutralizing the South African #B1351 variant in lab test.

Amanda Orson

amandaorson

1/ As big and influential as we may believe Apple, Google, or Amazon are - they don't hold a candle to the Dutch East India Company. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-valuable-companies-all-time/ 2/ Let's talk

This Is Africa

ThisIsAfricaTIA

On October 30, 1974 one of the greatest fights to be fought in Africa took place. Muhammad Ali and George Foreman fought in Kinshasa, Zaire, in what has popularly become

Tim Gore

tim_e_gore

What can we learn from the 'global land rush' about the risks of large-scale land-based carbon removal in climate mitigation strategies?A to put the numbers - like #Shell's reference to

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