Shafic Osman

PhDing @LSELaw. Sovereign Debt. Clippings on Ghana Relevant Readings. Political Economy of Everything Ghana!

[Shafic Osman @ShaficOsman]

For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is
wrong. —H.L. Mencken

[Noah @NoahAdamtey]

Ghana plans to join BRICS. What does it mean for us as a country? Join some of the best brains working in the field for this urgent conversation tonight at 7:00 p.m. on X Spaces.

https://t.co/mkzTggZH9P

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convening this again.

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application season is upon us and for lawyers and law students in Ghana (and the broader west african region) interested in pursuing a phd in law, my colleagues and i want to share a thing or two with you.

the conversation will be on twitter spaces via my page (@ShaficOsman).

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ato sekyi-otu on lumba’s Yε nia woho bεtɔ wo.

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@Nimaali 😂

[CDD-Ghana @CDDGha]

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@richardajao98 oh nice. send gimme too.

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chapters 4,5, and 6 are on ghana.

quite revealing.

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@richardajao98 seems like princeton has a copy.

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ghana’s year of return as the performance of a pan-africanism that “retains its affective resonance while shedding political force”

love this article man.

[Shafic Osman @ShaficOsman]

enjoying this. lots to unpack here, especially in response to the reflexive dismissal of pan-africanism by some.

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@phethani4 https://t.co/JxZVwcrd1i

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enjoying this. lots to unpack here, especially in response to the reflexive dismissal of pan-africanism by some.

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@DonkorST read am make we discuss.

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@DonkorST https://t.co/gYtkB79i77

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The generalizing impulse of Pan-Africanism, often misread as essentialist, can thus be understood as situated counter-hegemony—a strategic abstraction that mobilizes shared conditions of racialized and colonial domination into a grammar
of refusal, a redefinition of the human

[Shafic Osman @ShaficOsman]

@DonkorST he’s saying there’s a redemptive way of thinking about pan-africanism that is less focused on what it is unable to achieve (unity, total decolonization etc) and more on how it enables us to analyze the world from the pov we currently occupy

[Shafic Osman @ShaficOsman]

The generalizing impulse of Pan-Africanism, often misread as essentialist, can thus be understood as situated counter-hegemony—a strategic abstraction that mobilizes shared conditions of racialized and colonial domination into a grammar
of refusal, a redefinition of the human

[Stephen Sims @Steph3nSims]

Great opportunity for those coming out of university or early in their career to go through a very useful mentorship and research program with Anthropic that could also lead to a job: https://t.co/N2DiF84gpq

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"..large multinationals or in which cocoa beans are sold in domestic currency would significantly reduce the value of the collateral usable for the syndicate loans"

i.e. the syndicated loans embed the colonial logic of exporting the beans and not adding value domestically. 2/2

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"Selling less of the unprocessed cocoa beans forward implies less collateral for borrowing in USD at affordable rates. Upgrading strategies that include a system in which cocoa beans are sold to domestic buyers with smaller balance sheets and lower credit ratings than.." 1/3

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might be the most thorough thing you will read on cocoa financing in ghana- the mechanics, politics, implications for growth, etc.

good palette cleanser before the next round of cocoa partisan debates.

https://t.co/M0uWQOz1OB

[Shafic Osman @ShaficOsman]

might be the most thorough thing you will read on cocoa financing in ghana- the mechanics, politics, implications for growth, etc.

good palette cleanser before the next round of cocoa partisan debates.

https://t.co/M0uWQOz1OB