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[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🧵1/3 What happens when libraries can no longer preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️

Brewster Kahle warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile as publishers replace ownership with temporary access.

Read the essay Preserving the Library System by Brewster Kahle, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

🔗 https://t.co/tjoVGTQ2d6

[Sally Hayden @sallyhayd]

Feminist investigative journalism scholarship covering full tuition fees for SOAS MA Global Data Journalism (Online) (value: £12,000). "These scholarships are specifically for students who will study remotely, from wherever they are based". #journojobs https://t.co/EqjicHbWvE

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time.

Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

VANISHING CULTURE is out now!

From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online.
🌐 Websites vanish
🗞️ News archives go offline
🎮 Games become unplayable
📼 Personal media breaks & becomes unreadable

It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to disappear 🕳️

📖 Download & read: https://t.co/BrawXOwMBr
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/EB58IliqDm

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #BookTwitter

[MsAhmadu @vanteya37]

@Mochievous Time Changes Yesterday
The Drummer Boy
The Bottled Leopard
Twelfth Night
Death & the Kings Horseman
Ralia, the sugar girl

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

30 Years Too Late: World Bank Finally Admits Its Policies Against Industrialization Were Wrong

For over half a century, the World Bank and its sister organization, the IMF – both creations and effective property of the United States government – have impoverished Africa with their neoliberal economic “recommendations”. For over half a century, Western-aligned African leaders – like the one presently ruling over Kenya – have signed off on these “recommendations”, selling the futures of their own people to the West and its multinational corporations.

Elsewhere in the Global South, countries like China and Singapore have defied the World Bank’s neoliberal doctrine, defended themselves against the political strong-arming that the West has historically used to force weaker nations to bow to this doctrine, and seen rapid economic growth over the same period that Africa, as a continent, has seen only economic sabotage.

On March 17, 2026, the World Bank published a report in which it backtracked on its decades of anti-industrial recommendations to the Global South, and seemed to suddenly embrace the idea of sovereign nations deciding for themselves what to produce on their soil and why.

What are Africans to make of this dubious about-turn? And what lessons do East Asia’s continued successes hold for the African continent?

@barrahart reports for the Spearhead.

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

🌟We are now open for creative submissions! 🌟

Send us your best fiction or nonfiction — we welcome innovative creative writing that in form, focus, or theme seeks to expand the boundaries of global literary culture.

DEADLINE: Midnight BST, 1 May 2026

https://t.co/IsQeLQJWba

[MsAhmadu @vanteya37]

@aedcelectricity Durumi American International School axis is still without power, sha.

[MsAhmadu @vanteya37]

@aedcelectricity Durumi American International School axis has no power tonight again

[MsAhmadu @vanteya37]

@aedcelectricity Durumi American International School axis, please. The rain has stopped since

[Masobe Books @masobebooks]

Out Now and available from https://t.co/i4O7STpeko, masobeApp, and leading bookstores near you.

Kill The Poet, Save The World! is a daring, incandescent plunge into the futures Africa is already dreaming. Abdulkareem Baba-Aminu’s poems, electric with Africanfuturist vision,

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Nebula Award winner and African SFF advocate, was struck by a motorcycle in Lagos and sustained a spinal fracture. A GoFundMe is seeking $3,000 for medical expenses. Click to learn more if you are able to donate @Penprince_
https://t.co/7oNPQvCx8k

[DANJAY DANJUMA @Danjay_P7]

Many Nigerians debate banditry from a distance.
But until you meet it face-to-face on a lonely road, you cannot fully understand the fear it carries.

I once ran into bandits on the road to Anka in Zamfara.
Around 4pm, at Mayanchi junction, very busy junction, police and military checkpoints not up to 3 mins drive from there, more than fifty armed men blocked the road with their faces wrapped, Carrying weapons I had never seen before in my life.

In situations like that we were taught two things:
Never panic or look at them in the eyes and Never acknowledge them as bandits.

So I parked my car calmly, greeted them politely and asked how work was going — pretending they were security agents.(this was very important then)

None of them answered me.

They inspected my car, then silently signaled me to go.
I drove away slowly, but my whole body was shaking.

God saved me, for whatever reason, I really don’t know but I came out untouched.

Some of the realities of insecurity in Nigeria are difficult to explain to people who have never seen it up close.

[MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA @mangaplus_o]

Manga Contest Update!🚨

The school-genre story board for the Drawing Category of the MANGA Plus × JAPAN Expo Joint Manga Contest is now available!

Titled “The Demon Teacher,” the storyboard was created by Daichi Kawada, author of Blooming Love.

Think you’ve got what it takes to become a manga artist?
Turn this official storyboard into a complete, polished manga manuscript and submit your entry!

More info:
https://t.co/jEgZ0xqxFb

[Sadiq G sadiq @sadiqGsadiq]

Those terror!sts don’t care if you recite every Surah in the Quran while begging them, they don’t know about Allah, they don’t serve him, they don’t fast or pray, if you think they are doing this in the name of religion, I’m sorry for you.

Everyone will eventually learn.

[MsAhmadu @vanteya37]

@shiten_room Hi, I'm from Nigeria. Our issue since the 90s is that we only anime/manga licensed in English speaking countries like the UK/USA. My family got anime VHS tapes that way.

That's why I always support online distribution, but even apps might not be available for us at first 😅

[マンガ編集O氏 MangaEditor@KADOKAWA @editorO8823]

KADOKAWA WORLD MANGA is on Instagram! 📸✨

We’re sharing essential info for all aspiring manga artists, including the latest on the World Manga Contest. 🏆

Don't miss out! 👉 https://t.co/Zngm7JT1sm

[Mafty105 @gundam_news105]

Happy 20th anniversary to Ergo Proxy, director Shukou Murase’s mind-bending, dystopian cyberpunk masterpiece!

Murase is currently directing the Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway’s Flash film trilogy at Sunrise, carrying over his signature ambient darkness and boldly experimental visual style.

[Ali A Olomi @aaolomi]

Pisces season started last week! In medieval Islamic art they depicted Pisces as not two fish but a fish and a wise man representing its planetary lord, Jupiter. The image invokes al Khidr the mysterious teacher in the Quran

[Techlore @TechloreInc]

🚨 Google wants to force every Android developer to register with them, even if you never touch the Play Store. We signed the open letter opposing this alongside EFF, Proton, F-Droid, Tor Project, and 30+ others. Android's openness is non-negotiable.

https://t.co/vzlPdOc5Sa