Top Tweets for #GVSSA

almost 7 years ago

Global Voices | "Writing toward freedom: Politics and digital rights in Africa." 14 stories from 7 African countries. https://t.co/jGdQW8qmEx via @globalvoices This project is funded by the Africa Digital Rights Fund of @cipesaug. #GVSSA #AfricanDigitalRights #InternetFreedom

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almost 7 years ago

From mid-October to late November, @gvssafrica and @GVmena team, as part of its @Advox program, will feature a series of 14 analytical stories that examine interferences with digital rights during key political events.. #InternetFreedom #AfricanDigitalRights #GVSSA

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almost 7 years ago

Global Voices | "Writing toward freedom: Politics and digital rights in Africa." 14 stories from 7 African countries. https://t.co/jGdQW8qmEx via @globalvoices This project is funded by the Africa Digital Rights Fund of @cipesaug. #GVSSA #AfricanDigitalRights #InternetFreedom

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over 8 years ago

Thank you @travelfarnow @feathersproject @Kenyanpoet for being my co-travellers. And thanks to @UmarSidi11 @RomeoOriogun @KemNomu who let me instead of reading poetry participate. #WorldPoetryDay #GVSSA https://t.co/KxEPvC1K4Q

over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @ajayidami Thank you for your excellent moderation & poetic insights, @feathersproject! Thanks to @Kenyanpoet, @ajayidami, & everyone who joined us today live! @MarlaJaksch, @Petchary, @eraghaliel, @Dunia_Duara, we see you! <3 Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! #gvssa #poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @ajayidami Thank you for your excellent moderation & poetic insights, @feathersproject! Thanks to @Kenyanpoet, @ajayidami, & everyone who joined us today live! @MarlaJaksch, @Petchary, @eraghaliel, @Dunia_Duara, we see you! <3 Happy World Poetry Day, everyone! #gvssa #poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject I think this is the best time to be a poet in Africa. #WorldPoetryDay #GVSSA

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over 8 years ago

We will wrap up this conversation with this last question, considering that today is the World Poetry Day and we are African poets. 11. What do you think about Africa’s poetry landscape? @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject #GVSSA #Poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @feathersproject @Dunia_Duara wrote an excellent piece for @globalvoices on the rise of the #spokenword movement in East Africa, looking at the ways in which poets avert press limits by using poetry as a platform to speak truth to power. https://t.co/5fa6yrPmZA #gvssa #poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @feathersproject Metaphors are magic in worlds where press freedoms are compromised. I think of the great Haji Gora Haji, Zanzibar's most famous living poet who exposed the chaos of 1964 revolution under the guise of the metaphor of a hurricane. Read "Kimbunga" (Hurricane) & you'll see. #gvssa

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over 8 years ago

10. In Africa, press freedoms are often compromised. How are poets picking up where the news lets off? @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject #GVSSA #Poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

9. What can poetry do when the news fails us? @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject #GVSSA #Poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

We wanted to humanize the detained bloggers. We had to tell their story because they have names. #GVSSA #Poetrynews Long after the African Union’s Golden Jubilee: a Letter to Jailed Blogger Natnael Feleke by @travelfarnow https://t.co/3FUPQeWOKu

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject It is crucial to include clickbaits under this rubric & to imagine the possibilities that fake news carry with them. Poetry in its fastidious obsession cares for truth & beauty these virtues can't carry fakeness with them. #worldpoetryday #GVSSA

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over 8 years ago

"The world is talking, are we listening?" - that's @globalvoices motto. #GVSSA #Poetrynews https://t.co/8c3gkENVYG

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over 8 years ago

@ajayidami @gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @feathersproject I love this notion! Poetry is draft after draft, asking us to look closer, listen more. Learn.

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over 8 years ago

If only we listen... #GVSSA #Poetrynews https://t.co/grckK0b616

over 8 years ago

@ajayidami @gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @feathersproject I love this notion! Poetry is draft after draft, asking us to look closer, listen more. Learn.

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over 8 years ago

7. In a world of fastidious headlines and fake news, how can poetry humanize the news? @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject #GVSSA #Poetrynews

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over 8 years ago

@gvssafrica @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject I once read somewhere that journalism is the first draft of history & using poetry in news could be imagined as revising that first draft, energising with human experience and perspective #WorldPoetryDay #GVSSA

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over 8 years ago

If you are just joining us, we are discussing Africa and the Poetry of News. My guests are: @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow @feathersproject is moderating this discussion. @globalvoices #GVSSA #Poetrynews

gvssafrica's tweet photo. If you are just joining us, we are discussing Africa and the Poetry of News. My guests are: @ajayidami @Kenyanpoet @travelfarnow
@feathersproject is moderating this discussion. @globalvoices

#GVSSA #Poetrynews https://t.co/XRUrakziP9

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