One of the most revolutionary things you can do is to find a way to care about each other in a system that is determined to prevent that. "Justice is love in public".

My new book, *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*, to be published by Viking Penguin in May 2025, is available for pre-order from several outlets. Thanks in advance for your interest. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407/f…

KEEP ON ROCKIN IN THE FREE WORLD as 🕉🇺🇦🟦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 joins Pearl Jam on stage tonight at MSG and ROCKS NY Right Into The Ground! Maureen Van Zandt #PearlJam

Honored that “We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families” is being reissued today in the UK as part of the Picador Collection with this terrific new cover.

Never forget.

As I’m writing my book on the Nana Benz-Togo’s Mercedes-driving textile merchants-it amazes me that there are still books coming out on West African economic history that treat women as peripheral actors. Women are highly visible in various economic sectors in the region but 1/2

The people who are written about as economic actors are still largely men. Women show up in passing reference to undifferentiated “market women” “petty traders” etc but very rarely treated as innovative entrepreneurs and almost never as economic theorists.

I’m working hard to show in my book that although the Nana Benz were exceptional in the amount of wealth they accumulated & the exclusivity of thier group, they are also ordinary in the sense that they are part of a long, deep history of West African Women’s economic ingenuity

Come check us out on Saturday, 7 September 2024. 2-7pm.

This year's 82nd World Science Fiction Convention featured several African authors, from Nnedi Okorafor and Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson to Wole Talabi and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki! Check out photos from the events here: brittlepaper.com/2024/08/africa…

Hoy lanzamos este nuevo proyecto sobre discursos del odio desde ✳️porCausa. Tenemos el convencimiento de que lxs protagonistas del debate migratorio son los más capaces de cambiar la narrativa tóxica que lo acompaña. Si son estos jóvenes, mucho más.

Gerald Durrell y el amor por la vida salvaje 🐯 | OpenMind (bbvaopenmind.com)

El marco de la crisis migratoria se ha asentado durante el verano en el debate político y los medios de comunicación, mientras el nuevo Pacto Europeo de Migraciones y Asilo habilita un endurecimiento de las políticas migratorias. Por Sarah Babiker. elsaltodiario.com/migracion/quie…

Heureuse de partager mon nouvel article, une série en trois épisodes. Le premier est disponible dès aujourd'hui sur Afrique XXI: Bintou Sanankoua, une femme au coeur de l'Histoire: Partie 1 🔗afriquexxi.info/Bintou-Sananko…

𝗞𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗢𝗡 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗜𝗡’ 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗! 🎸 🔥 Pearl Jam w/ 🕉🇺🇦🟦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙, @ThisIsWatt & Glen Hansard at MSG two nights ago! Video: A Bal #pearljam #darkmatter

La nueva narrativa irlandesa: revoltosa y centrada en el yo elpais.com/babelia/2024-0… a través de EL PAÍS

La alianza verde de China y África: África necesita energía verde para garantizar el acceso a la electricidad a su población, lo que le convierte en un socio comercial muy codiciado para Pekín, sujeto a barreras comerciales de EE UU y la UE Guillermo Abril elpais.com/planeta-futuro…

" Passe tes diplômes et viens prendre ma place " : la réponse cash et clash de Faé Emerse en conférence après Zambie. #CIVZAM #Football

Today, the Ndebele people took the streets of Bulawayo to celebrate the life and the legacy of their founding father, the first King of the Ndebele nation, King Mzilikazi, who led them from KZN, South Africa, in 1823 to Zimbabwe. Mzilikazi broke away from Shaka, the Zulu King.

El populismo xenófobo marca el paso en Occidente elpais.com/internacional/… vía EL PAÍS