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Meanwhile Uk skipped a parliamentary hearing about the accusations on sexual violence in Kenya. British forces in Kenya are
accused of committing acts of
murder, sexual violence and
arson as recently as 2021.

The weeks @thecontinent.org has a deeper explanation of the war in Sudan vs the western media narrative naming it as a “war about nothing “.

The level of distrust in Universities and their workers for incoming students this fall is so palpable you can feel it in every zoom /seminars even offers of anonymity don’t seem to work. Knowing institutions, they will be probably be wondering what is wrong with this cohort of students.

This weeks @thecontinent.org

It is one thing to position a subject or set of peoples as the Other of a dominant discourse. It is quite another thing to subject them to that "knowledge," not only as a matter of imposed will and domination, but by the power of inner compulsion and subjective conformation to the norm.-Stuart Hall

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Usians online marketing is wild, but what is more insane is how medical drugs are advertised as if it were candy, with even a “how to get your insurance to approve”. Specially all these weight loss medications. Anti-fatness is really an industry.

The @thecontinent.org is back! So this week in African news👇🏿

a gentle reminder: AI is not science

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”-Frantz Fanon

Happy birthday to thee ancestor!

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC.

But no City agency has posted it on this platform.

Please help spread the word.

“If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean court approves the arrest of former President Yoon Suk Yeol over December's martial law decree.

Media, Culture, and Decolonization - Rutgers University Press Media, Culture and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Throu...

Good morning! ☺️

Countdown: 5 months to publication! ⏰️📚✨️

My book is now available for pre-order.

Pre-order on the @rutgersupress.bsky.social website here:
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It is a very interesting time for American journalism as in school we are taught that certain institutions have authority and generally trusted as sources, but what happens when the primary sources that lend authority to stories are not publicly trusted by the audiences media serves ?

One of the interesting journalism programs I did was run by @jayrosen.bsky.social the program is structured to respond to journalism industry problems. I wonder what the program looks like now given the current media environment where institutional trust isn’t a given for authority “sources”.

Wow!

On the other hand Zohran identifying as African American makes sense 😂😂 Because he in fact Ugandan (African) and American. The real fear here is how are school application personal records shareable with media?!

Countries in Eastern Africa have a complicated history with East-Africans of Indian descent. Racially the tensions still remain as majority because of colonialism Indians got the capitalism fruits of the British empire. Indian anti-blackness isn’t new it is an open secret.

Hello New York, you old raggedy friend! It’s great to see you

Moreso, the very creation of nation-states in Africa is a product of colonial anti black violence. The post independence transitions can not hold as large ethnic groups were clustered for European capital extraction and exploitation, so states continue to use violence to legitimize its illegitimacy.

Hot take on militarism presidency in African countries;
As someone born under one of those “freedom fighters” the initial stages are interesting and liberating for those alive at the moment after surviving coups , however aftermath of power trips, they turn into the dictators they always were.

I wish the return of these looted pieces also came with reparations their museums spent time making a profit.

Sexual violence added to brutal
crackdown on Nairobi dissent
Protesters thought they’d won
change a year ago. Little has
happened, so they took to the
streets again. To be met with
bullets, barbed wire and rape.via @thecontinent.org

most people seem to think the current geopolitical madness is temporary and things will eventually swing back. hate to tell say it but so long as tech oligarchs control large platforms, media & the knowledge ecosystem, this will likely remain the new normal

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Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries In the last few years, Africa has emerged as a resurging force in global pop culture with artists from the continent and the diaspora working to bring African entertainment media to the rest of the...

Afropolitanizing the local: how cultural imperialism is rewriting the narratives of African entertainment industries

Full paper here 👇🏿👇🏿

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Netflix gives African film a platform – but the cultural price is high Netflix’s interest in Africa is more about business than telling nuanced stories about the continent.

“Netflix’s interest in African stories comes with a colonial power dynamic that research and scholarship has not fully explored.”

theconversation.com/netflix-give...
By @wunpini.bsky.social

Kenyan police fired tear gas at protesters marking one year since the deadly 2024 anti-gov't protests, when at least 60 were killed as crowds stormed parliament over tax hikes and corruption.

Knowledge that I never expected to learn (sought out to understand ) from how stock markets work to now understanding war plans and strategies such as asymmetric warfare. It is not even the end of the year. 😭😭😭 This year has got to end already !

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...

Are commercial interests driving Uganda’s military operations in DR Congo? Ugandan soldiers said they ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

Are commercial interests driving Uganda’s military operations in DR Congo?
Ugandan soldiers say they have ‘occupied’ two DRC towns as the Rwandan-backed M23 continues to hold territory elsewhere.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...