I am so excited to announce that @lynseychutel and I have done a cool thing, we wrote a BOOK!
'Coloured: How Calssification became Culture' is a labour of love and our way of #CelebratingColoured.
Will tell you when you can get your copy!
Here is the first look at our baby🎉
COVER REVEAL:
‘What are you?’ I’ve been asked this question too many times.
To be Coloured in South Africa is to be assumed to be lost, without culture.
What are we? So many stories.
#Coloured - How a Classification became Culture w @Tessa_Dooms is out in September
#EXCLUSIVE - Ghana is poised to request debt relief via the G20 Common Framework and has sought reassurances that the negotiations can be expedited before proceeding, sources told Reuters.
Scoop from @KarinStrohecker, @jdorosario & @cakorlie
https://t.co/4lW8H6V6DC
Serena Williams’s venture capital firm is backing Nigerian data and insights firm Stears in a $3.3 million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital https://t.co/staMten0D8
You could tweet “this country is finished” and pretty much everyone would assume it was about their country. That’s the absolute state of the world right now.
NEW: Ghana is poised to start talks with domestic bondholders on a restructuring of its debt as part of plans to secure a $3 billion loan from the IMF, sources say https://t.co/2AA8L2b7Hu
The turn to Africa for a short-term gas fix is “patronizing” and “hypocritical,” said Carlos Lopes, former head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. https://t.co/i5iDIuJe25
A wild year on Wall Street has traders worried one of two extreme scenarios will engulf the $23 trillion Treasury market https://t.co/gN5m57KMKe via @markets
Russia’s war with Ukraine has escalated sovereign-debt risks in Africa, increasing the need for better relief measures, the World Bank says https://t.co/mjUFg2kvN8 via @markets
Obituary: bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native who went on to an international career as an author, critic, feminist and public intellectual, died on Dec. 15 at her home in Berea. She was 69. @lbblackford https://t.co/aYwR0vTjQx
I’m proud to live in a country whose scientists have consistently shown themselves to be ahead of the curve in identifying #COVID19 variants that are already emerging in far more resourced nations.
I’m perplexed and angry that their excellence and ethics continue to be punished