Oumar Bâ

IR and stuff • future cattle herder

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

my latest publication in JICJ (part of a forthcoming symposium on the present and future of international criminal justice) https://t.co/WBG9xjLoTM

[Eleven Named People @11namedpeople]

Duke Ellington in Dakar, 1966.

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

tout*

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

ce qui est clair maintenant c’est que la pomme de discorde entre sonko et diomaye c’est 2029. toute autre désaccord entre eux est subsidiaire à cette dispute

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

retour aux sources

[Anasse Kazib @AnasseKazib]

« Pour garder l’empire que tes ancêtres ont fondé »

Le compte Instagram officiel de la Marine Nationale, a posté pour sa propagande de recrutement une affiche de l’époque coloniale. C’est véritablement scandaleux, voilà où mène les projets militaires et guerriers du gouvernement.

On ne le dira jamais assez à bas l’impérialisme français !

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

My physics oral exam at the ENS: "Have you seen videos of supraconductors levitating above magnets?
1. Prove that they do levitate.
2. If a supraconductor levitates for 30 min, estimate an upper bound for its resistivity."

1 hour exam at the blackboard, no preparation, no documents, no computer or calculator, no pen or paper... just you standing alone with a piece a chalk and a top physicist staring at you.

Supraconductivity wasn't even part of the program. The whole point was to figure out a decent model and derive everything from first principles (ie Maxwell equations, which you were supposed to know by heart, alongside approximate values of the universal constants).

Note: my specialty was math, not physics. I can't even imagine what the questions were Iike for the physics students.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

The philosophy entrance exam to ENS, France's most selective school and the one with the most Nobel Prizes per student worldwide.

This year's subject: "The authority of science." 6 hours. Handwritten.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Yeah, your job was not to interview the perpetrator, your job was to find his victims and ask them about what happened so Jonathan can be brought to justice. What is this “I feel bad about my war crimes” discourse ffs

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It’s wild that officials like this get invited to give these addresses but @RamiElghandour gets canceled by Rutgers for being against what she did.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Students from the Colin Powell School at City College of New York heckled Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the former US ambassador to the UN during the Biden administration, at their graduation ceremony on Thursday

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

bond*

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

“nous étions au bord du gouffre et nous avons fait un grand bon en avant”. propos attribués à un ancien “dirigeant african”

[@usmaanaali.bsky.social 🍉 🇸🇳🇳🇬🇿🇦 @Usmaan_Aali]

Symboliquement, on est dans un trou profond.
Et les députés la ne feront que creuser

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

The Dakar Conference, 1987. The conference was held in Dakar, Senegal, between 55 predominantly white Afrikaner South Africans and a 16-member delegation of the exiled African National Congress (ANC). Organized amidst a heightened state of emergency in South Africa, this landmark gathering bypassed the rigid strictures of the apartheid government to explore potential paths toward a negotiated political settlement. Footage: Apartheid docuseries

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

@BesenyoJ @ISQ_Jrnl thank you 🙏🏾

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

my new article "reconciliation and the aporia of transitional justice" is out at @ISQ_Jrnl
open access (for now) at this link https://t.co/XYg0q3zrV7

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

might be worth reiterating: je ne suis pas pastefien and frankly i don’t care much about les querelles entre pastefiens. but i’ve lived long enough to know that this split doesn’t necessarily mean that faye shot himself on the foot. the next 2 years will be… interesting

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

@natkpowell not sure there won’t be a plurality of senegalese that will refuse to faye what they afforded senghor, diouf, wade, and macky

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

ça vole pas haut là

[Bassirou Kebe @bassiroukebe_]

J’ai jamais été aussi fier d’appartenir à @PastefOfficiel
J’ai jamais été aussi fier d’avoir un leader comme @SonkoOfficiel
Et surtout j’ai jamais été aussi fier d’avoir des parents qui m’ont inculqué des valeurs pour ne pas être un traître, un complexé, un parvenu, un arriviste, un vendu.

Dieu est avec les endurants.
Fier de vous , fier de mon peuple.

#SONKO2029

[RÆVE 🔻 🧡 🔻 @jeraeve]

Stopped reading at "when revolutionary politics finally meets the realities of governing". There's no revolution in Sénégal.

[Oumar Bâ @OumarKBa]

that said, i won’t be surprised if faye manages to get a second term. how? he’s still got 2 years to figure it out