Daudi Msseemmaa

Tanzania. America. Loves learning/sharing about gender justice, education, conquering oppression, systems, healthy partnerships. My feet get dusty.

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

@wizara_afyatz Kuna advantage kuwa kuwa na majengo mengi madogo madogo, haswa natural ventilation na isolating nosocomial outbreaks.

[Mwango Capital @MwangoCapital]

Front page of papers in Kenya:

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[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

@OGBovee @nytimes

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

@USEmbassyAddis Critical diplomatic, security, and humanitarian matters - This was the most important address ever by a man with a nameplate in Comic Sans.

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

A complex homecoming story of Ethiopia's Jewish #BetaIsrael, from Addis to Jerusalem. https://t.co/9M6uM3MNab

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

Parents' rights is a "Trojan horse for a relentless effort to dismantle a pillar of American democracy that, for all of its flaws, is still one of the country’s most powerful engines for economic and social mobility." @education @jbouie
https://t.co/kTiABBdr4d

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

I have mixed feelings about this. School rankings are a very incomplete tool for comparing schools, looking only at F4 exam results. But what other tools are available?
https://t.co/gJ0seggynK

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

In a land with a serious shortage of textbooks, where many students can't read in English at grade level, where these saucy books are coming from and whose reading them? And are there pictures?
https://t.co/Exw7HUK8CL

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

My Future Cringe: We used to read (and make) newspapers that were printed daily on dessicated dead tree pulp and delivered around in vehicles. https://t.co/HIig4CYMnh

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

Most sheriffs in #Illinois, incl in my dear #LaSalleCounty, say they won't enforce the new assault weapons ban bec it's against the 2nd Amd. Grenade launchers, artillery were banned long ago. Sheriffs, let people have their anti-aircraft artillery, too.
https://t.co/aIh8fzOEPp

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

@CupricCS @JanuaryEmily I write this way, too, in defiance of my training in AP style, because it is clearer to understand.

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

@alexgra71489770 @NoContextBrits I think you can make it more likely that a kid will remember something by later showing it photos of what you want it to remember.

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

...But I see the food crisis of now, with droughts and floods keeping harvests low, and wonder how all those people can possibly get enough food.

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

This has a hopeful narrative that African ingenuity and grit are enough to overcome the risks of underdeveloped megacities. It's also beautiful telling of a complicated story.
https://t.co/7wO0jCJnYp

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

A friend from a warzone in eastern South Sudan told me yesterday about how enemy groups raid each other's children, stealing them by the dozens. This from Ukraine is the same, but with better PR. https://t.co/XahSEk1CTw

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

Duke-like candidates would emerge "in every other state unless politicians... offer programs to respond to the concerns he's raising." -Sen Breaux, after David Duke won the white vote in his losing bid for Louisiana gov in 1991. I think he was wrong tho.
https://t.co/xsN9e0C8CB

[Samira Sawlani @samirasawlani]

My first piece for The New York Times - on how branding young Kenyans who didn’t vote as being “apathetic” does them a disservice

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

Ignoring Afghan women and girls is to do the Taliban’s work for them.

https://t.co/Q4AcWWIKTD

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

Responses to deadly violence around Chicago are so different, normalized on the South Side, not so in #HighlandPark

https://t.co/RIevDRwBWn

[Daudi Msseemmaa @msseemmaa]

In this parable about a village of houses built in a perilous gully, what would you do? I would move to another village? @davidfrum
https://t.co/av3OvIYLA7