I wrote this piece a few years to try to historicize and contextualize the current counterrevolutionary war in Sudan. It’s finally out now and is meant to give a sense of what and why it is happening.
Sudan's Counterrevolutionary War https://t.co/KNQQ9ZCs2u
James Blood Ulmer, the innovative guitarist who fused avant-garde jazz with funk and the blues, has died at age 86.
Access the free article here: https://t.co/14pQSUTJDv
UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn condemned ‘masked thugs’ after a night of anti-immigrant violence in Belfast, in which families were burned out of their homes and vehicles were set alight https://t.co/e5wCImQ4Jo
NEW on our website: Gustav Parker Hibbett reviews Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand (@fsgbooks)
"Salvage, an extraordinary ‘autobiography of the autobiography of reading’, has found a form that is not quite literary criticism, not quite autobiography, but that troubles the architecture of both.."
Read the full review:
https://t.co/i7d599IDIW
-Do you have any weapons on you?
- I have a longing that's killing me.
—Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
First president of Mauritania and one of the founding fathers of the OAU.
It was because during the first street-renaming exercise, the govt was renaming streets after Pan-Africans and their capitals, eg. Haile Selassie, Nkrumah, Kaunda, Nyerere, Tubman, Gaborone, Lagos, Accra
Speaking of catastrophism and clickbait, surely Will Self is out there pitching another book about the end of the novel. He declared the novel's end in 2014. Wild how every single year the novel dies and some men publish long essays about it instead of novels. 😶
@alarm_phone A month ago, our Aurora was fined and grounded for 45 days after rescuing 44 people in a similar situation. While people are risking their lives at sea, the Italian government chooses to punish those who rescue them. But we will continue our fight.
🇰🇪 Le Kenya brille à Tokyo 2026 ! Au Grand Prix, Janet Jepkoech a affolé les chronos avec un nouveau record, confirmant la domination kényane en athlétisme. Retour sur les performances africaines au Japon sur SNA.
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