I read some Epstein White supremacist waffle about inferior Black minds this morning. And then, I aced the NY Times Spelling Bee puzzle. Coincidence?
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Ghana had the good sense to immediately drop the name Gold Coast. I wonder what Ivory Coast is still waiting for...
Jihadi videos, Hollywood style.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
"He said that ‘President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.’"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
#Iran #USAggression #Extremism
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#USAggression #Iran #Israel
The very base of the world’s instability is linked to the non-respect of the principle that all human lives are equal." - Serge Aime Coulibaly, choreographer, #BurkinaFaso in "Being an Artist Is a Mission"
"Some countries have the full right to produce nuclear weapons, to do whatever tests they want. No one says a word. But others are not allowed nuclear weapons, because they are not considered mature enough to keep us safe, whereas we have to accept the first group of countries as mature.
Dancers in the show "Kirina"
#BurkinaFaso has many great artists. I interviewed choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly in 2023 in this timeless piece about how the 12thC Manden Charter influenced his outlook and the role of artists in society.
#AfricaSky #AfricanHistory #AfricanArt
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I have just been reading "King Leopold's Ghost". Reading Rubio's full speech just after that makes a particularly chilling read.
"Learning to approach population debates in thoughtful, honest and respectful ways is a small essential step. Shifting frames to question trajectories and learn from each other is no doubt another useful step. Reframing is often the first step to seeing new possibilities"
"Today sex, not just family, has become a public policy issue in low fertility countries. Japan’s government funds speed-dating services for young people. Singapore in 2012 ran a National Night campaign advertising sex as patriotism"
"‘Next time I will look for a husband with siblings.’ She may have taken away the right lesson: a 2006 study found that Chinese divorce rates when both spouses were only children were double the rates of couples where both spouses had siblings"
"Africans should start paying attention to the fine-grained detail of lower birth rates to decipher what potentially lies ahead for their countries. Japan and China are interesting countries for an eye-opener on potential societal shifts that accompany low fertility"
"The rich in Africa who can exercise options over their fertility, tend to have fertility rates quite close to those in rich countries wealthy enough to afford to have as many children as they like."
How quickly the wind shifts. When I wrote this piece 4 years ago the West still lectured Africans on having too many children, now the West harasses its own women for having too few. This was a Best of 2022 pick in The Republic (Nigeria).
#demography #AfricanSky #China
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I wrote this in 2022. Sadly, even less climate solidarity today than then. "the report should make Europeans think it could happen to us, with “it” being devastating floods on the scale of what Pakistan recently experienced, or the droughts afflicting Madagascar." africasacountry.com/2022/11/it-c...
The Portuguese translation of Hair as Freedom came out in Buala last year. www.buala.org/pt/a-ler/o-c...
The release of the game #Relooted yesterday of course made me think of Mati Diop's excellent 2024 film "Dahomey" on the return of 26 royal treasures to Benin. Catch it on MUBI if you haven't watched it yet.
#AfricanHistory #AfricanSky #BlackSky #Restitution
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You might also be interested in this piece I wrote shortly after the Sarr & Savoy report was released in 2018. africanarguments.org/2019/01/afri...
Yes, I have to the Senegalese gamers' perspective really surprised me. On the upside, it does show just how immoral the initial theft of heritage was😅
@nyamakop.co.za You might want to check out my longer post on Facebook.
I agree! The Senegalese gamers had me scratching my head.
In a conversation I had with Senegalese gamers, some said they didn't like the idea of a game in which you had to steal. Their moral compass was stronger than that of colonial adventurers. I'm not a gamer, but curious enough about Relooted to give it a go.
#AfricanHistory
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This essay resonated with many, and not just people with Afro hair. Egyptians, for example, told me of their hair straightening nightmares. Bonus: it actually contains data on hairstyles, from Burkina Faso.
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#AfricanHair #AfroHair #AfricanHistory #AfricanSky #BlackSky
This essay explores anti-colonial historical fiction from Alliance of Sahel State countries. The original is not online, here is the Italian version from Internazionale mag. DM me for the English version.
#BurkinaFaso #Mali #Niger #Sahel #AES #IbrahimTraore
www.internazionale.it/magazine/yar...
Another essay about a historic event I was lucky enough to witness in Burkina Faso - the Thomas Sankara trial. This was also originally published by ever on point @africasacountry.bsky.social
#BurkinaFaso #ThomasSankara #AfricanHistory
africasacountry.com/2022/04/inte...
I spent almost two decades in Burkina Faso. (Loved it!) A lot of my writing focuses on that country. Here is one piece about the 2014 uprising that I was lucky enough to witness. Originally appeared in @africasacountry.bsky.social.
#BurkinaFaso
africasacountry.com/2019/10/noth...
I spent most of my childhood in East Africa, so I felt justified in using this provocative title. A double book review I wrote after a trip to Uganda in 2018. Jennifer Makumbi's Kintu to this day is one of my favourite reads.
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#AfricanBooks
I'm new to Bsky. So, I will be posting a backlog of my publications so that readers here can get to know me. This was one of my earlier pieces, about the return of African heritage. Today, the French senate is debating a framework law on the matter. Progress.
africanarguments.org/2019/01/afri...
