Blair Rutherford

prof of Anthropology @CUSocAnth

[Belinda Dodson @BelindaJDodson]

One bit of Canadian delinking from the US that I'd like to see is to stop outsourcing visa processing to VFS Global, owned by US asset management company Blackstone.
@CitImmCanada
@LenaMetlegeDiab
@AnitaAnandMP
https://t.co/Uw5HWEFV4S

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

The WHO today has again pleaded with Canada and other countries to lift these travel measures. Canada claims it is "vital" to stopping Ebola -- and it is certainly popular politically -- but the experts unanimously agree that it actually hurts the Ebola response.

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya

Book launch & discussion with
author Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow)
& Loren Landau (Oxford)

2 June 2026 | 4:00pm UK time
African Studies Centre | 13 Bevington Rd, Oxford

*Hybrid event: Register online*
https://t.co/adJQmR5PCl

[Patient M. Polepole 🇨🇩 🕊️ @PolepolePat]

#OutNow - Innovations paysannes face aux conflits fonciers en Territoires de Masisi et de Kalehe à l'Est de la #RDCongo - avec @OkonkwaMaurice
@OmegaThige @matabaro90047
@bahizire_jonas @JNzweve dans #CanadianGeographies
https://t.co/JhO7AZbB8J

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Francesca Albanese just exposed the ugly truth: The New York Times ignored Palestinian rape testimonies for over a year.

She gave them a lengthy interview in February 2024. Nothing followed.

UNRWA detailed torture and sexual abuse. Nothing.

B'Tselem. Physicians for Human Rights. The UN Committee Against Torture-which concluded torture is Israeli state policy. The UN Commission -which called it systematic, widespread, and an act of genocide.

All ignored.

But now the NYT finally publishes? Suddenly it's a scandal

The rape didn't start when the NYT noticed. The silence just became harder to maintain

[Blair Rutherford @brutherf]

David Moore's important take on initiatives in Zimbabwe to amend the constitution...
Zimbabwe’s push to extend the president’s rule could deepen elite divisions and weaken democracy https://t.co/mWp341Z8nn via @TC_Africa

[Gorkem Akgoz @gorkem_akgoz]

From "AI in itself" to "AI for itself"! 🤣

“When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies,”

[Blair Rutherford @brutherf]

"The managerial university remains a constipated entity hostile to the safety and welfare of those toilers who learn and work within it. “Platform concentration risk”, as the computer boffins like to term it, promises more mayhem, disguised as a digital nirvana."

[Binoy Kampmark @bkampmark]

'The response to the #hacking of Canvas shows laziness, indifference and an almost tortious neglect about the welfare and #privacy of #students and staff.'
Caveat #Canvas: #ShinyHunters Hacks the #Education Sector - https://t.co/9qObFSlr1e https://t.co/bqjTeDOd1Z

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

In other words, countries in the Global South should stop people moving in an irregular manner towards the Global North.
Exactly why the 'route-based approach' is a form of externalization.

[Blair Rutherford @brutherf]

One of Tibor Nagy’s mea culpas (I am sure there could be many): re US strong support of Tshisekedi in the disputed 2018 DRC election…

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

A former top US official is expressing regret for supporting Tshisekedi in 2018. Note: the official results of the 2018 election were highly disputed (to say the least), and the US influence helped to ensure that the final outcome would go Tshisekedi's way.

[Olúwábùnmi Akíndípẹ̀-Bernard @bunmibernard]

I'm excited about the publication of my book. The Gods are Wise: Yorùbá Sacred Orature and Environmental Sustainability by Oxford University Press.

It is available for order on OUP website & online bookstores.

Please recommend it to your University Libraries and Policy Makers.

[Blair Rutherford @brutherf]

@weiss_hadas Your mom’s a Trot?

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

What began as a familiar security state has hardened into something new: a unified coercive order that governs Egypt through violence, surveillance, and permanent emergency. https://t.co/cGNY9da4DK

[Jordan Armstrong @jarmstrongbc]

Sources: FIFA wanted level 4 motorcade escort for its president while in Vancouver (ability to go through traffic lights).

That’s 1 level below the pope - but on par with 🇺🇸 president - and higher than 🇨🇦 PM.

The request was denied.

#bcpoli
@GlobalBC
@CUrquhartGlobal

[Nicholas Coghlan @NicholasCoghlan]

Former senior Trump official: “It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government..Who knows how much damage was done.” #SothSudan https://t.co/oY3WnqbnIw

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

The saga of the unburied Zambian president (still in South Africa where he died) has taken another bizarre twist:

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Today Israel killed a journalist in Lebanon and children in Gaza and the West Bank. Israelis also entered Syria to try and set up a settlement.

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

Professor Lloyd Michael Sachikonye, a prominent local academic and researcher who serves as Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe and is widely recognised for his work on African labour movements, democratic processes, and political violence, will on Thursday launch his memoir, Many Hills To Climb, at Sapes Trust in Belgravia, Harare.
Sachikonye has published extensively on Zimbabwe’s socio-political landscape.
Some of his works include,
Many Hills to Climb (2025), a personal memoir spanning colonial Rhodesia to modern Zimbabwe, detailing his journey from struggle to academic success.
He has also written When a State Turns on its Citizens (2011), an analysis of state-sponsored violence and its impact on migration and personal freedoms in Zimbabwe.
His other works entail Zimbabwe’s Lost Decade (2012), exploring the political and economic crisis that characterized the 2000s.
He has also written Striking Back on the the labour movement and the post-colonial state in Zimbabwe 1980-2000 (2001).
He has further co-authored with Professor Brian Raftopoulos a publication examining trade unions' role in the democracy struggle.
Sachikonye also wrote Zimbabwe@40 (2020), co-edited with David Kaulemu, reviewing the country's development trajectory over four decades.

[Blair Rutherford @brutherf]

@ligodipatient @Udadisi @bobwhite_88

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africa’s reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity. https://t.co/P9dIbjAVzG