Living With The Sea
This is work I did (exactly 20 years ago) & may give you a brief glimpse into the lives of a couple of families who work on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. Visit this bay at high tide, it looks wild and empty, but as the tide falls... 1/11
On today's Zambian Independence Day, we salute our friends in Zambia!🇿🇲 I am working overtime to finish my biography of Miriam Makeba. (She had me write her autobiography years ago.) Here she is at Zambia's 10th anniversary on October 24, 1974. Too bad about the guy playing the piano for her, I understand his musical career never took off.
BREAKING: Red Arrows Eliminate South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs from CAF Confederation Cup.
The Airmen have made history, qualifying for the CAF Confederation Cup group stage for the first time in their history.
#TotalEnergiesCAFCC
Average White Band from Perth, Dundee and Montrose.
Cited as the 15th most sampled act in music history, with their catalog contributing to over 600 individual samples across hip-hop, R&B, and dance music.
Pic: Brian Cooke
Digitisation of the historical archive of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions passed 200,000 pages this week and our project will soon be complete.
This collection should be available to researchers in 2027.
🦟 Mosquito research in Jamaica! Join UWI Mona’s seminar with Deiondra Tai and Juliet Smith-Marshall on insecticide resistance and sterile male mating competitiveness.
📅 Oct 22 | 1:30–2:30 p.m. JA
📍 Life Sciences or Zoom
Details on flyer. #UWIMona
This sounds like a fascinating biography, appropriately from not only a journalist who’d followed Mugabe for decades, but a Zimbabwean journalist raised in the same community & culture as his subject.
Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian x Percy Zvomuya https://t.co/KV1aBBwOTU
Did you know Ireland Camogie manager Ger Manley also represented his country as a player? 👀
Here he is pictured playing in the shinty/hurling international, next to Davie Anderson whose son Ruaridh will take to the field in the same fixture this Saturday 🏴🏑🇮🇪
From: Jesse Sikombe
To: Ms. Linda Kasonde
Date: 20th October 2026
Dear Ms. Kasonde,
RE: APOLOGY FOR DEFAMATORY STATEMENT PUBLISHED ON THE TWITTER/X PLATFORM
🇯🇲 I co-authored this study documenting five rare cave-dwelling velvet worms at Pedro Great Cave—the first reported there since 1974!
Take a read 📖 https://t.co/J3p9GYlF5J
Follow @RoostersWorldJA for more Jamaican wildlife!