Why We Chose Angola Over Nigeria For $6billion Energy Projects – TotalEnergies CEO | Sahara Reporters bit.ly/3V9nHJd

Imagine being able to make stone translucent.

When artists sculpted the impossible — a thread... 🧵

Jewish prisoners after being liberated from a death train, 1945

The immortal Teófilo Stevenson youtu.be/cS7y-E9fwtk?si…

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books). themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umb…

This is a Doctorow appreciation tweet (and a sub to X) as well as a Ragtime specific appreciation tweet.

You kyant make these things up, I tell you!

We mayn't like capitalism much but we have to respect its chutzpah. By it, for example, a malt drink is sold to us in tropical Nigeria that is named after the Amstel river...low sugar river...

Hilaire Belloc on the difference between the barbarian and the civilized man:

'The Barbarian hopes that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace

Ìbẹ̀rẹ̀ àṣìṣe. Ó mà ṣe o.

There is Genocide ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩 but The whole World is silent. 💔😥

The annual Issac Boro Festival was held yesterday in Kiama and Yenagoa and other parts of Bayelsa State.

It comes up annually on 16th May as part of the Major Isaac Boro Day celebrations. The 16th is his memorial.

It featured lectures, concerts, wreath laying & a boat regatta.

hard to believe, Edward Hopper drew this at the age of nine.

already his eye was astute--most children don't seem to 'see' figures anything like this; indeed, most adults, asked to draw a human figure, fail utterly. how odd it is that some are naturally gifted with this ability

There's nothing that this junta won't try once the 'election' heist was completed by a supine judiciary.

though I knew better, I read the NYTimes interview with women who'd voted for T***p previously & are mostly intending to vote for T***p again. after a presidency that was sheer mendacity, after Jan. 6, after COVID mishandling etc., still the view prevails that T***p is a

Today In Algeria, a man missing since 1996 was found captive in his neighbor's underground pit.

They need to call a dog a bad name first, so they can hang it.

BLANCHE: Just so I understand, you surreptitiously recorded your client so you could play a privileged recording between you and your client with a third party. That’s what you did, right?
COHEN: That’s correct.

BLANCHE: you understand that is not ethical to record a

Review: Everything Is Sampled - Akin Adeṣọkan , Everything Is Sampled: Digital and Print Mediations in African Arts and Letters. Indiana University Press, 2023, 371 pp. | Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4bGjPVq

Jean
Work in progress

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