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My Nov. 2024 open letter rebuking #Liberia’s #dishonourable #lawbreakers, aka the so-called ‘majority bloc’ of our House of Reps., has been vindicated by a recent #SupremeCourt ruling declaring their actions #unconstitutional (bit.ly/3ROTlJt & bit.ly/3Cwmzbo).

While #Broadway’s attempts to increase #representation have faltered, #London’s #stages are having a #black #renaissance, according to this illuminating Financial Times analysis: bit.ly/4m3Q5Yi

As the first #LatinAmerican (#Argentinian) #pontiff, the late #PopeFrancis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) will be remembered most for preaching a ‘theology of the people’ and adopting a more globalised #foreignpolicy for the #Catholic #church: bit.ly/443Bupv

#America would #lose any #trade #war with #China, says this spot-on Financial Times analysis, since other #countries trade significantly more with China than the US: bit.ly/3Gw0HiC

Whenever I have doubts about staying in #academia, I receive feedback like this from #students reminding me that I’m exactly where I’m meant to be at this very particular moment in my life.

#Kenyan #literary #titan Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who joined the #ancestors last week, left behind a rich body of work. I smiled after digging up this co-authored article I wrote about him in #2006 and now need to find our #podcast #interview. RIPP, #Ngũgĩ! bit.ly/43nwFGU

If you’re a #black #British or non-UK domiciled #black #Caribbean person interested in #researching the legacies of #transatlantic #slavery, apply by 7 July for this #PhD #studentship at UCL! bit.ly/4l1V0sd

#Africans should be very wary of the #cult of Ibrahim Traoré of #BurkinaFaso, argues Minna Salami in this brilliant commentary challenging #Africa’s PAWN (Populist Anti-Western Nativism): bit.ly/3FvYxzq

Here is a helpful The Africa Report explainer about how #Africa is already reeling from the escalation of #violence between #Israel and #Iran: bit.ly/3HCBzaj

If you’re in #Monrovia, #Liberia, or its environs on 7 July, check out this #public #lecture I’ll be delivering entitled ‘Aid and Its Discontents’. I’m grateful to #colleagues at the University of Liberia’s IBB School for International Studies for organising. bit.ly/3ZG9rJM

I’ve always pursued #research with real world relevance. So, it was an #honour to receive the #LSE’s inaugural Rising Star Impact Prize last night. The Prize—which includes #funding—is in recognition of my contributions to the passage of #Liberia’s #dualcitizenship #law in 2022.

How the International Monetary Fund (#IMF) #underdevelops #Africa, indeed! bit.ly/43S9MdJ

Check out this #interview with my brilliant sistah-friend and #international #relations #scholar @DrAmyNiang, who argues that #Africa’s mission must be “to humanise the world, to affirm humanity where the powerful relentlessly desecrate it.” bit.ly/3STcr1x

All hail #Liberica #coffee, once a prominent #export from #Liberia! bit.ly/3F2QxFE

I’m looking forward to engaging with #Liberian #youth during back-to-back events in #Paynesville (bit.ly/454IRNj) and #Monrovia (bit.ly/3UjvTVG) this week. Thanks to Alphia Faith Kemokai of the YPLS Africa and Nyema-Monday Merriam of the LDC for organising!

In keeping with my 2024 Independence Day National Oration (bit.ly/4168sDd), I urge compatriots to support Liberia Giving Month by donating NOW: radarforward.com/liberiagivingm…. Kudos to SMART Liberia for building back better and differently. Happy In Defiance Day 2025!

Here’s a fascinating read by Foreign Policy’s Howard French about how the #politics of #NewYork #democratic #socialist #mayoral #candidate Zohran Mamdani “seem broadly inspired by his father” Mahmood Mamdani, a renowned #scholar of the #African #state. bit.ly/3J8fJMI

Thanks to the CSIS Africa Programme for compiling this interactive table tracking the most up-to-date US-Africa #bilateral #trade data. Regressive #American #tariffs will gut #African #economies. bit.ly/47jSauf

Listen to this wide-ranging #interview with the brilliant Zachariah Mampilly [Zachariah Mampilly], who discusses how #racist and #colonial frameworks continue to shape the position of #Africa and the larger #GlobalSouth in #international #relations: bit.ly/4koxAMP

I had such a blast last month engaging with #Liberian #university #students and #primary #school #pupils in separate sessions featuring my #awardwinning #monograph (bit.ly/3MHh0Z2) and #anticorruption #children’s #books (robtelneajaipailey.com/author).