My Family on Crutches
A collection of poems about carrying the ones you love on crutches while forgetting how to walk yourself — from Aisha Abdulhamid
My Family on Crutches
A collection of poems about carrying the ones you love on crutches while forgetting how to walk yourself — from Aisha Abdulhamid
Disbelief as Nigeria as its ministry of Agriculture – which is in-charge of food production - urges prayers to end food shortages. An internal memo urges staff to attend a solemn prayer session and fast for three Mondays.
Why this electric vehicle charging company just helped electrify an entire village in Senegal with solar.
Almost word for word the language used during the Rwandan genocide.
Ships Are For Sailing
An essay about the frailty of friendships — from Ikeh Anthony
Climate change is fuelling a mental health crisis among young people in Madagascar.
www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...
Zuck is not having a midlife crisis, he's pivoting to an open embrace of fascism. The aesthetics are secondary and primarily about his awareness of how many people can be deceived by even the worst attempts of oligarchs to pretend to be cool and normal.
Why is it that Brazil is one of the few countries around that remembers it is, in fact, a state with state capacity
I am reminded of the SGR.. and the sleek trains that were promised..
161 pages. Published Apr 20, 2024 by The Mad Duck Coalition. SF.
I loved, loved! this collection of linked stories set in our (potential) future: climate change has ravaged the world, sea levels have risen, and the corps run everything that matters.💙📚
https://hararereview.wordpress.com/2024/08/16…
There should be term limits for commentators in newspapers. 10 years max.
Investigation by Frontelligence Insight reveals that since 2022, despite sanctions, Russian cruise missile manufacturer Raduga has not only continued to operate but also expanded production, thanks to imported Western and Chinese machinery
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The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence x Petra Molnar (DRC) open.substack.com/pub/hararere... 💙📚 #bookreview
African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana #bvm
What do you call a state that would, in the middle of the night and in defiance of the highest international tribunal in the world, bomb a civilian camp for the displaced that they themselves designated a safe zone?
Is this not a rogue state?
The Biden administration insists today’s UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is “nonbinding.” Well, I spoke to one of the U.S.’ leading international-law scholars, and,
From now on, I'm teaching Modern Monetary Theory with this example.
“Sudan has become a living nightmare. Almost half of the population – 25 million people – are in urgent need of food and medical aid. Some 80 percent of hospitals have been put out of service”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/...
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Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
This is what the great superyacht migration from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean looks like…
luxurylaunches.com/transport/su...
Former State Dept official Josh Paul says Israel's raid on Defence of Children International last year and its shutdown, along with other human rights orgs deemed by Israel to be terrorist abettors, was prompted by a U.S. inquiry into a child prisoner's rape www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231205-res...
Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick |
grist.org/accountabili...
Image of an email from a student asking if sources "from the late 1900s" are acceptable.
I will never recover from this student email.