Yarri Kamara

@yarrikamara.bsky.social

Writer & Translator. Speaking to the world from an African perspective. www.yarrikamara.com

NYT catches up. African media nailed this angle from day 1 of #Ceuta events. (See my previous post). Whatever the immediate trigger was, 60000 youth willing to risk their lives the day after the monarch celebrates in great pomp speaks of deep policy failures. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...

Ceuta Migration Crisis Exposes Despair Among Morocco’s Young People

Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

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Interesting framing in this headline of #Ceuta migrant crisis. Mohammed VI has focused so much on power projection - hosting AfCon & World Cup, joining the Board of Peace - Moroccan youth have perhaps been neglected. As they already tried to tell him through last year's unrest.

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Le 29 juillet, Mohammed VI célébrait l'émergence du #Maroc. Le lendemain, des milliers de jeunes tentaient de rejoindre #Ceuta à la nage. Neuf sont morts #GENZ212 www.afrik.com/ceuta-mohamm...

Orwell on sport: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It’s bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure.” Pre Argentina-Spain match I thought here Orwell’s wrong. Argentinian players showed he was, at least partially, right. #Argentina

Front cover of George Orwell's book titled "Shooting an Elephant"

Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika (God Bless Africa) is the opening line of the #SouthAfrican anthem. Xenophobic groups have set a 30 June deadline for undocumented African foreigners to leave. Violence has been directed indiscriminately at all African foreigners.

I've met people from every L. American country except #Paraguay. So I had to educate myself yesterday. 7M inhabitants, strong indigenous culture - Guarani widely spoken, ranked 2nd happiest country in the world in 2025. I presume they didn't host many fleeing ex-Nazis like their neighbors #WorldCup

#AfricaDay calls for celebrating heroes. Here is to Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Congolese doctor who discovered the ebola virus, and later pioneered its first therapy, which was ignored for many years. He's still battling on during the current outbreak. #AfricaSky #heroes www.huffpost.com/entry/ebola-...

He Treated The Very First Ebola Cases 40 Years Ago. Then He Watched The World Forget.

Now he's warning wealthy countries to stop ignoring diseases in Africa -- because no one is safe.

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For those in the US, Tilted Axis Press will be at the Working Class Literature Festival in D.C.The punchy Burkinabe novel, So Distant From My Life, by Monique Ilboudo, that I had the pleasure to translate will be featured at their stand. #AfricanLit #Booksky www.tiltedaxispress.com/so-distant-f...

So Distant From My Life — Tilted Axis Press

Burkinabé author Monique Ilboudo’s novel offers a compelling and complex portrait of migration in Yarri Kamara’s PEN Heim Award-winning translation.

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Anti-African xenophobia rears it's ugly head again in South Africa. '“In 1994, my father wrote a personal cheque for $10,000 to Nelson Mandela.” The donation represented a conviction that “Black dignity is indivisible” across the continent.' #Africasky www.europesays.com/africa/207434/

Son of Ghanaian donor to Nelson Mandela invokes father’s legacy amid South Africa xenophobia debate - Africa & Europe

The son of a Ghanaian doctor who once wrote a US$10,000 personal cheque to anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has called for renewed African solidarity in

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RFI radio played Tuareg music this morning just before its news bulletin on the ongoing jihadi/Tuareg-rebels assault in Mali . With so many conspiracy theories about France's role in Sahel terrorism, definitely a musical choice that could've been avoided. #Mali #Africasky #Sahel tinyurl.com/4kn4jrj4

Mali's defence minister Camara killed in rebel assault on residential compound

Mali’s Defence Minister, Sadio Camara, has been killed during an attack on his residence near the capital Bamako,as fighting continued around the country between the army and Tuareg rebels backed by…

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