W.E.B. Du Bois had one of those lives which spanned such different eras it doesn't seem possible. He was born before the Dutch Gold Coast was ceded to Britain and lived long enough that he died in independent Ghana.

"The competition between the United States and China to sell the world their wares has serious consequences for the health of the planet." What? No? Just the US exporting fossil fuels does. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

It’s remarkable how many high powered business leaders with executive level experience at western firms & agencies make it to the top spot in West African governments. It used to be educators & union leaders, then mining engineers. Now it’s Deloitte & the World Bank.

This Labor Day, thank unions for: ✔️weekends ✔️8-hour workdays ✔️a minimum wage ✔️paid overtime ✔️breaks during work ✔️the right to strike ✔️child labor laws ✔️workplace safety standards Now, let us grow the trade union movement and win more for workers.

On Labor Day, we remember A. Philip Randolph. In 1925, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black-led union securing better wages and working conditions for many Black workers. Later, he helped organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

In Indonesia, after a boda rider was killed by a cop at a protest, the whole country has lit up. This is why so many African governments seek to buy off and under-regulate them. #affankurniawan bbc.com/news/articles/…

12.89% interest per month on the loan sum of UGX 4,305,500 (if one pays the deposit of UGX 2,014,500 for the purchase of the higher end S25 Ultra at a cash price of UGX 6,320,000). Final price is UGX 8,118,000 and MTN pays itself a tidy UGX 1,798,000 for taking a risk on you.

Update: protestors wearing green, the color of both Grab Indonesia and Gojek Indonesia, the companies Affan Kurniawan was working with.

Aerial view of the Makutani Palace in Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania. africanhistoryextra.com/p/origins-and-…

I mean, this is right, but I think we do know a fair bit about what Capt. Ibrahim Traoré believes, as he speaks about it at great length, frequently. For example, here’s a 20 something page speech he gave last year laying out his plan for Burkina Faso. presidencedufaso.bf/wp-content/upl…

You can burn the newsroom You can't destroy the spirit Reporters, editors, designers from Kantipur and Kathmandu Post worked throughout the night to publish newspapers this morning. You can follow their continuous coverage on their social platforms (FB and X) throughout the day.

Brazil is sending its election denier to prison for 27 years. We sent ours back to the White House. Brazil already lived under military dictatorship and saw the threat clearly. We failed to protect our democracy. We need to learn from Brazil before it’s too late.

Ta-Nehisi Coates keeps saying completely true things on a large platform that could actually fuck up his life vanityfair.com/news/story/cha…

We can officially raise the alert level from "Wow, Things Sure Seem Bad" to "Uh Oh! I Recognize This One From the Textbook"

The Onion is undefeated.

Every African unicorn has foreign DNA 85% of funding to African startups ultimately comes from LPs abroad — more than in any other region Africa's tech ecosystem today = African problems + African innovation + foreign balance sheets The math we don't talk about

During the election, Mutharika's campaign promised boda boda riders that if elected, he would eliminate the most basic regulatory requirements - like license plates or drivers licenses. So, not a great sign.

Jane Goodall just passed. I hadn't realized she married Derek Bryceson, the British-Tanzanian MP who helped Nyerere win power in the racial quota system of pre-independence Tanganyika, and her son still lives in Tanzania.

Trying to decide if it's professional to write in a publication about boda road safety that "anyhowness is causing deaths."

Spain has a GDP per capita comparable to Japan and yet the Spaniards basically don't work