If you work in Dev't & food security in Africa, read my latest co-authored Journal article on -The implications of sugarcane contract farming on land rights, labor and food security in the Bunyoro-subregion, Uganda-. Free access till Nov. 10, 2022.
https://t.co/uYksAaGNEn
THREAD: I have spent months investigating the foreign mercenaries in DR Congo. I met some of them in Romania & Goma. One Romanian mercenary’s salary equaled that of 50 Congolese soldiers. The government says they are just 'instructors' but this is not entirely true @BBCAfrica.
Replies to my previous tweet got me thinking how every time there's a tech breakthrough in an African country, many headlines rush to call it 'The Silicon Valley of Africa.' Let's talk about why this comparison needs to retire:
I am excited to share that my paper "Analyzing Constitutional Courts as Centralizers and the Impact of Supermajority Rules: A Dataset on the Federalism Conflicts on the Unconstitutionality of Laws in Mexico" is out and Open Access in #DatainBrief from @ElsevierConnect
“During the pandemic we grew up”
We are excited to announce the launch of a new Learning Paper ! It explores the impact of #COVID19 school closures on adolescents' mental health in Uganda.
Read more here https://t.co/F1zzITbWST
In the wake of immense loss, I have gathered some of Selamawit D. Terrefe’s articles in one place. It is my hope that you will engage them deeply and repetitively 🕊️
https://t.co/9bJDCzgUD8
🚨New article in @SocietyandSpace: "Eco-coloniality" and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border.
What's at stake by converting a #refugee camp into a #nature reserve? How is the #environment used to harm racialised #migrants at borders?
https://t.co/sJKKfp0DWg🧵
@MariusKothor We had a book club about this and the invention of gender in Africa left huge hole in our social relations. Also wrote a journal article about this on "Unrecognized in African history" and cited cases in West Africa on dual-sex society. Let me know if you need the summaries.
Y’all!!
Afro-Indigenous Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti did a story for British Vogue March 2024 with Anok Yai & Zaya Guarani paying homage to Brazil’s African & Indigenous spirituality
Every image has a backstory.
This thread will address a couple of them 🇧🇷🧵
Ewá 🐍
Celebrity award shows are integral to upholding structural oppression. I recognize it more now than I did in the past.
It’s felt particularly Hunger Games-y this year so I think that’s why.
But the shows themselves really serve to normalize & reinforce structural oppression 1/
The American religious right and the anti-LGBTQ movement in Uganda: Family Watch International, Sharon Slater and the ‘Entebbe conference’ | Democracy in Africa https://t.co/p8XTUQu9Pp
@ali_naka This is why Julia Sebuttinde's case at ICJ managed by the first family. I have receipts because the husband campaigned for her, the daughter is an evangelical, its more colonial than we know it.
📢Call for papers: Future of Work in the Global South and Global North Symposium
ℹ️Submission instructions: Email your abstract & a short bio to [email protected]
🗓️ Deadline for abstracts: 10 March, 2024
🔎Find out more👇 https://t.co/A216F3lriy
Join me and @SabrinaAxster for our #ewis2024 workshop The 'Global Colonial Present', Istanbul, 3-5 July 2024! Tracing how colonialism takes/took shape in different regions, beyond but also connected to the Anglosphere. See https://t.co/edyVjTwWg8 for full CfP. Deadline 5 Feb!
@decolonial_sig If this is not it. And when they do sharpen them, they are tilting and bending history to reflect the gleased narrative of oppression ever taking place.