#AFRICA

Gilad Isaacs

GiladIsaacs

Why should we be careful when talking about a “jobs bounce-back” in South Africa? - A THREAD. You don’t get better labour market economists in South Africa than the @NIDS_CRAM

Martin Johnes

martinjohnes

It's very disappointing to see a Plaid Cymru councillor defending the statue of Henry Morton Stanley in Denbigh by saying he loved Africans and wasn't a racist.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53056739# Stanley did have

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

The debate about how to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic is often framed as a scientific, or a scientific/economic problem. I do not believe it really is. Instead, it is

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

20 years after losing the war and being bombarded with atomic bombs, Japan rose from the ashes to become the world's 2nd largest economy without following Western "free-market" capitalism, or

Stats SA

StatsSA

Inequality in South Africa, as measured by the Palma ratio, is highest when compared to other BRICS and African countries.Read more here: https://bit.ly/2QimvSL #StatsSA #InequalityTrendsinSA @ARUA_ACEIR @SALDRU1 @AFD_en @EU_Commission

Nicolaas J Prinsloo

NJPrinsloo1

The President of South Africa.@CyrilRamaphosa "There are no killings of White Farmers in #SouthAfrica"Proverbs 26:28"A lying tongue hates it's victims, and a flattering mouth works ruins" Statistics on #FarmMurders a

Muhammad Safiullah

nawab_safiullah

In 1615, historian Richard M. Eaton quoted, "one observer estimated the Mughal's annual revenue at 120 million silver coins, compared to 45 million for the Ottoman Empire and just 15

Brad Simpson

bradleyrsimpson

1/11 A short thread on the US and Western Sahara, which Donald Trump has never heard of and could never have found on a map until one of his advisers

Jason Mosley

africaupdate

Hoping policymakers in DC will consider this, if they've read the Atlantic Council's unhelpful, 'give war a chance' briefing on Ethiopia's conflict in Tigray. THREAD1) TPLF's (often brutal) grip on

john milbank

johnmilbank3

Typically excellent piece from AR. Macron’s crucial combination of resistance to Political Islamism with new active European engagement in Africa (effectively if benignly neo-imperial) very much accords with the last

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

#OTD in 1941 3 F-lighters (MFP) of the #Kriegsmarine concluded their first coastal convoy from Tripoli to Benghazi, shipping hundreds of barrels of fuel #crusader79 @rjhammond215 @ajcboyd @navalhistorian @NavalHistWar @CedricMas

Malcolm Clark

TwisterFilm

1./ Just how dumb are some LGBTQ+ activists? I ask since there's yet another petition against @ALLIANCELGB. Surprise, surprise the usual sheeple gay glitteratti have signed it. Even Cashman has

Lottie “ANTIFA SUPERSOLDIER” Blix

lottieblix

I think there is a misunderstanding here.The Bering Land Bridge theory refers to the possibility of the peopling of the americas via an "Ice Free Corridor" in the Rocky Mountains,

Lumière

Lumiere_LLL

German National Socialism was incredible. We will never ever get to that level of excellence and devotion for a collective and European cause against subversion and its degeneracy. We are

Kate Wong

katewong

[THREAD] For @sciam’s 175th birthday, I looked at what scientists have learned about human origins since the magazine debuted in 1845. Pretty much everything we know about the evolution of

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKEThread: Is History About To SAP Us Again?In 1963, after more than a decade’s episode of violent struggle for freedom, Kenya attained her independence. Then in 1991, roughly 28 years

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