I have a new academic essay at @haujournal on the famous Azande witchcraft, based on a decade of fieldwork and almost a dozen trips to Western Equatoria state of South Sudan. I try to unpack social transformation through the changing nature of oracles.
https://t.co/ciXNdlfJS7
This AP story is illustrated by my pictures. I was in Ayod half a year ago, it was tense and on the edge of famine, but largely peaceful. The situation makes me extremely sad and devastated.
The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War - new evidence of how Africa's biggest conflict is morphing into a vast theater for high-tech warfare, driven by foreign interests.
https://t.co/RcqO1as3NI
The Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, director of such works as "Sátántangó" and "The Turin Horse" and the recipient of numerous awards for his long and often darkly comic films, has died at 70. https://t.co/sM8jf4FRY2
Flying back to Bamako after very interesting meetings and two workshops in Budapest to discuss the Sahel crisis. We differ obviously on Ukraine and many other things but there is common ground in the Sahel. @LaszloMathe_
Flying back to Bamako after very interesting meetings and two workshops in Budapest to discuss the Sahel crisis. We differ obviously on Ukraine and many other things but there is common ground in the Sahel. @LaszloMathe_
László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize in Literature winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely. Walt Hunter on the political power of his timeless art: https://t.co/e2xbPHXqzf
BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
“The emergence of an elite class dependent on external money rather than local legitimacy…[has] plunged [South Sudan] into a series of corruption scandals.” —@joshua_craze https://t.co/297w2sLU2l
#NewsAlert
Systemic Govt. corruption and brazen predation by #SouthSudan's political elites have unleashed an immense human rights crisis - the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said in its latest report issued today
Read: https://t.co/GEvCIvv8Fb
Finally read this and I’m truly bewildered. There is some interesting reporting here, and some original threads to be pulled, but (despite the change to the article’s title) the conclusion is baffling. The liberal world order led to this war!
https://t.co/ruN8fnTZc1