Serawit Debele
@debele.bsky.social
Research Group Leader @Bayreuth University @Cluster Africa Multiple
All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 208 of The Continent A gold discovery near Zambia’s West Lunga Park has triggered a chaotic rush. Thousands have flooded Kikonge, clashes have turned deadly, and illegal buyers are cashing in. A gold rush means risk, riches, and unrest. bit.ly/TC_208
I'm sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it's wrong to deliberately starve thousands of children to death.
Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).
Thomas Piketty@thomaspiketty.bsky.social · last yr.Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]
My home institution is under threat: The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social needs your solidarity. Planned budget cuts by the city and university leadership threaten the vital, critical work coming out of this space #SaveBerlinAnthropology
Hansjörg Dilger@hdilger.bsky.social · last yr.At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...
The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social needs our solidarity. Planned budget cuts by the city and university leadership threaten the vital, critical work coming out of this space. Let’s not let it go quiet. #SaveBerlinAnthropology
Hansjörg Dilger@hdilger.bsky.social · last yr.At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...
At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever: www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...
Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts
At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...
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I want to believe in self-care and black joy, even though I experience everything today as co-opted and commodified. So watching Angela Davis play squash before heading to her job teaching women inmates was a blast from the past.
Thrilled to have the English-language version of my article on "Becoming an Author in Times of Asymmetric Ignorance" come out in the @postcolh.bsky.social "Virtual Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies" right in time for my presentation at @ergvidsu.bsky.social on Tuesday! tinyurl.com/pdep62fr
Manuela Boatcă@manuelaboatca.bsky.social · last yr.In two weeks' time in Stockholm thanks to my Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Professorship @sodertorn.bsky.social @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social
There is no freedom for women in this neoliberal capitalist takeover of International Women’s Day. www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/why-...
Why I no longer celebrate International Women’s Day
Instead of collective and confrontational resistance, we now celebrate individual women’s achievements in capitalist, neoliberal ways
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Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering. In the previous conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea fought together against the Tigrayans. This time round, Asmara appears to be backing a hardline Tigrayan faction Via @thecontinent.org
Some people think that the demise of USAID is good news. Wasn't USAID a tool of US imperialism? A prominent proponent of this line of thinking is Patrick Gathara, a senior editor at @newhumanitarian.bsky.social His argument is ill-informed and wrong.
Gerry Flynn@geraldrflynn.bsky.social · last yr.As Patrick Gathara deftly points out for @aljazeera.com - the loss of USAID and its colonial/imperial machinations *could* present an opportunity to reshape the development sector. Whether this opportunity materializes is unclear, but reform is clearly needed for how aid functions and is thought of.
Second: Yes, humanitarianism has colonial roots. But Indifference has colonial roots too. The main legacy of colonialism is not compassion. It’s indifference. Colonial politics were not primarily about pity or about saving lives. They were about letting people die.
A younger Adichie might have penned just such a novel. What a pity that the new Adichie — the defensive celebrity, the territorial feminist — seems no longer capable of writing such a book. www.vulture.com/article/chim...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating Return
Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late.
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The number of civilians casualties from #drone strikes in #Ethiopia is rising sharply with the arrival of new Turkish #drones. The lackluster international attitude on drone warfare is sending states on a killing spree. Strong piece by @zekuzelalem.bsky.social ecfr.eu/publication/...
Sell your Tesla stock, and burn apartheid clyde's paper wealth as a bonus 🔥🔥🔥
reijer hendrikse@reijer.bsky.social · 2y agoNEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 192 of The Continent. Botswana prepared for drought. Then it flooded. Climate chaos is the new normal. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
just an incredible episode. Make time for it.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.glad to talk to @keeanga.bsky.social @itsmccarthy.bsky.social, @danieldenvir.bsky.social, about our increasingly weird political situation and the role that identity politics plays in it. even if this episode isn't for you, @thedigradio.bsky.social is a gold mine thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
Recent ethnic cleansing campaigns in Sudan and Ethiopia remind us Zero Discrimination Day (1 March) still marks a distant aspiration. Based on 46,269 face-to-face interviews conducted by Afrobarometer, we may be losing ground. Via @thecontinent.org
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Enjoying the woke wars? I was on @thedigradio.bsky.social with @danieldenvir.bsky.social, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social to think on MAGA racism, identity politics, liberalism, and the anti-woke left. We aren’t really having any of it. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...
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This is remarkable. The last of 8 patients who tested positive for Ebola Sudan has been discharged. Now the 42 day count down to this outbreak being officially declared over is on. Only 1 fatality is a remarkable feat.🤞 Kudos to front line responders in #Uganda www.independent.co.uk/news/ebola-u...
Uganda discharges the last Ebola patients. No new deaths from the contagious virus reported
Uganda health authorities say they discharged the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola
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it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...
Germany's far left had its best electoral result in years. Which, while still only 9%, is a sign that whatever centrism is supposed to be doing, people are not happy with it. And since they grabbed the greatest share of 18-24 year olds, those unhappy people are the future.
Our two party system makes even modest results like this nearly impossible
Goldstein@goldstein.latinsky.app · last yr.Germany's far left had its best electoral result in years. Which, while still only 9%, is a sign that whatever centrism is supposed to be doing, people are not happy with it. And since they grabbed the greatest share of 18-24 year olds, those unhappy people are the future.
Also, 4 in 5 did not. The AfD underperformed polling, meaning the fear of "shy" AfD voters in DKs did not materialise. Maybe most important: despite terror attacks, Musk & JD Vance's support, and a river of dark money and AI disinformation, the AfD *lost* a couple of %pts in 2025. I'll take it.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last yr.1 in 5 Germans voted far-right today, the best showing for the German far-right since the end of World War II. This result probably still keeps them out of the governing coalition, but they'll be the largest party in the opposition by far. Tough times ahead.
