Nina

Development economist, urbanist, journalist with love for Africa. SOAS, LSE grad. Eyes on cities, social justice, innovation, hip hop.

[Nina @twendelee]

Has #populism got it wrong? In US, more people want #immigration to go up than down, and more dissatisfied because it’s too low, not too high.

Tectonic and Sudden Shift in Public Opinion about Immigration https://t.co/dLuluoQmtK via @CatoInstitute

[Ndéla Faye @NdelaFaye]

"It feels like we are leaving the storm behind just before it hits"

My article for @HuffPost on why I'm leaving Britain. (Spoiler alert: it's because of #Brexit). https://t.co/aZLFv5ui4C

[Nina @twendelee]

Watching a tv show and all these months later still find it weird how close people are standing to each other. Will the future hold Covid-19 episodes/series with people just sitting at home or everyone walking around in masks and ducking each other on the street? #pondering

[Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa]

If you are abroad and you really want to help #Lebanon, there is a way.

Donate to any of the following NGOs who are doing amazing work on the ground. #Beirut

https://t.co/dXO0SJemo9

[Nina @twendelee]

“Palm oil criticism is well-intentioned, but it is founded upon ignorance — ignorance of how colonial systems have evolved into our current global trade“ @yewande_k in @heatedmag https://t.co/2kqapep5Gn #food #trade #Africa

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

What is happening in Palestine is so distressing & no one is talking about it. Please read about the planned annexation and sign this petition calling on European leaders to speak out
https://t.co/ew34tbJhNc
https://t.co/FSRtXs5Qcz (best read)
Sign:
https://t.co/dFzSzO3SHS

[Nina @twendelee]

UK media/police once again showing their clear complicity in upholding white supremacy and racism. Two horrible attacks in a week, two blatantly different narratives. Asylum seekers attacked by ‘lone man’. Asylum seeker as attacker labelled ‘terrorist’. https://t.co/dwagqqHPRJ

[Trinh @Trinhnomics]

Oldest millennial is now 39 years old & did u know that our group owns only 3% of the totally wealth vs the boomers during the same age owned 21% of total.

This crisis has not destroyed to create just like 2008. When will the millennials gain wealth? 39 is close to middle age.

[Nina @twendelee]

Brexit politics are back; huge shift in UK’s international approach today with announced merger of #DFID and #FCO. Runs counter to evidence and criticised by academics, practitioners and politicians alike, including 3 ex-PMs (giving supporters of current govt all the more fuel).

[Kirsty McNeill MP @kirstyjmcneill]

In case you're hunting for expert opinion in favour of the FCO taking over DFID, let me save you some time. The evidence is below. This isn't a policy decision but a political one, made during the biggest humanitarian crisis for 100 years. Ask yourself why.

[Nina @twendelee]

Just watched #AmericanSon, definitely worth your time. Amazing acting with the emotions translating through the screen - and the distressing message so much louder and clearer thanks to the amplified voices of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[Nina @twendelee]

@JohannaMappes And to note that the journalist doing the mocking was female..

[Nina @twendelee]

@hjuusola Samaa mietin kun luin! Se, että artikkeli julkaistiin nyt, viime viikkojen tapahtumien keskellä, olisi voinut/halunnut olettaa, että HS:n toimitus tarkastaisi kahdesti miten juttu esitetään ja millä kieliasulla.

[Nina @twendelee]

“The [ruling] party, instead of welcoming the expression of public discontentment, instead of taking for its fundamental purpose the free flow of ideas from the people up to the government, forms a screen, and forbids such ideas.” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[Nina @twendelee]

Thoughtful and eloquent analysis of current history in the making. Recommended 11 mins of watching.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence @garyyounge

Watch full film: https://t.co/t4ygsVJFnc

[Nina @twendelee]

Amazing open-access resource on economic development in #Africa, taking a critical look at evidence, Eurocentric prejudice and contradictions of capitalism to "make the policy case for specific types of public sector investment". @SOASEconomics

[Christopher Cramer @CramerChristoph]

Well it's out: African Economic Development: Theory, Evidence, Policy (by me, John Sender, and Arkebe Oqubay)@OUPEconomics @perspectives45 - open access from the very start, freely downloadable here: https://t.co/kwzx4gboPE

[Nina @twendelee]

Read this. Pulls no punches on the current state of affairs in the UK: “we’re living in an Orwellian dystopia ‘led’ by an absentee prime minister of Churchillian delusion who signed up for the glory, not the gory” #Covid19UK

[John Murphy @John_murphy1]

This is an extraordinary, blisteringly angry piece of writing that should be read by everyone. https://t.co/wAJKlxpwVg

[Simon Allison @simonallison]

I really like this @CSISAfrica series where they ask African journalists, academics and activists to comment on US news. This time the subject is the death of George Floyd and subsequent protests. Thanks @JDevermont
https://t.co/XFSmCbUNoU

[Nina @twendelee]

“But the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels.” #cities #localgov #BlackLivesMatter

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I wrote out some thoughts on how to make this moment a real turning point to bring about real change––and pulled together some resources to help young activists sustain the momentum by channeling their energy into concrete action. https://t.co/jEczrOeFdv