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Internationally acclaimed authors, Arja Salafranca, Niq Mhlongo , Mubanga Kalimamukwento📚OBLIGATIONS TO THE WOUNDED , Denis Hirson and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, share their peculiar and particular insights into the arts of travel writing, short stories, fiction, memoir and poetry.

This is what historical research can do! This is what happens when we challenge erasure!

On April 24, we mourn and honor the loss of our 1.5 million martyrs who died during the Armenian Genocide. Today, Armenians worldwide pause to reflect on the atrocities of the time and the painful realities we continue to face as a people. #neverfoget #wearestillhere

Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who helped lead the 1968 student protests at Columbia University, says the school has been much more severe in its response to today's protests for Gaza. 'We occupied buildings. We did not allow classes to go forward in 1968,' he says.

Starting tomorrow April 15th, #ICJ will begin public hearings regarding #Azerbaijan 's preliminary objections in the case involving the Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ( #Armenia v. #Azerbaijan ). The hearings…

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Today is the 30th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This journal will publish a special issue on the subject later this year. Twenty years ago, it published this one, featuring darryl li and others.
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Calling all writers to read PEN South Africa excellent letter to members, including coverage of their letter of concern to PEN America and a review of work of PEN International #Israel #Gaza

Thank you to Dr Robyn Pickering at HERI and Dipuo Kgotleng Dr D.W. Kgotleng at UJ Palaeo-Research Institute for this important article. #SouthAfrica #HumanOrigins #Palaeoanthro #HomoNaledi #2023Review

“We believe that you would do well to appoint a group of individuals…to conduct a thorough review and examination of the conduct and performance of PEN America with regard to the tragic consequences of the Israeli occupation”

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I love this book! Thank you The Cheeky Natives for this wonderful interview with Nadia Owusu about Aftershocks: a Memoir.

Just in case you missed her at #JFWW2024 Margaret Busby will be in the house for a New Daughters of Africa celebration including poetry and reading from some of the Daughters featured in the book! Join us this Thursday night! RSVP on email address below Jonathan Ball Publishers

I will speak about the #CombaheeRiverCollective at my alma mater Mount Holyoke College on Wednesday 3-13. You are welcome to register here bit.ly/48N5ZyD & tune into the livestream. SmithCaringCircle Black Women Radicals Imani Perry Shay Stewart Bouley Capital District DSA Edda Fields-Black (she/her/hers)

'Citation is feminist memory' by Feminist Killjoy feministkilljoys.com/2015/12/30/fem…

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The Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers is happening on Sunday 10 March 2024 with Margaret Busby as one of the headliners. JIAS University of Johannesburg

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Receiving the copies I ordered of Diana Ferrus’s book I’ve Come to Take You Home, makes me happy! Diana Ferrus #poetry #history #poetry makinghistory

I’ve just read a magnificent memoir, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu. Nadia Owusu Beautifully written reflections on identity, home and belonging, as well as insightful explorations of Ghana, Tanzania, and the Armenian Genocide. I can’t recommend it enough!

Great to see that Origins Centre Museum Wits University has restocked Darwin’s Hunch! And many other books about #humanorigins #Palaeoanthropology #histsci