Going through my research notes, one thing that stands out to me is that there is enormous praise and support for Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré throughout Zambia, from NGOs, business leaders and bureaucrats. All love him for 'getting shit done'.

I'm not saying that British Airways online services are crap, but they emailed me my ticket for my flight last Saturday just now.

Being a overall prick is not 'realism', torching all of your allies and fawning over your historical enemy is not 'realism', completely dismantling the entire world order that overwhelmingly benefits your country for 80 odd years is not 'realism'. Stop sanewashing Trump.

Current writing mood @academic-chatter.bsky.social

#stormeowyn update: a bit windy innit.

This is perhaps one of the last alerts one wants to see sat at an airport terminal, waiting to fly out.

If anybody wants further evidence that the financial sector has a poor history of predictions, I'm currently reading a 2021 paper by Goldman Sachs saying that copper prices at $9k per tonne are too low, and they will be $15k by the middle of the decade. Today the LME price of copper is...$9k.

I feel like Elsevier are deliberately mocking me with this email @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicchatter

Thanks to @jsas-journal.bsky.social for the Terrance Ranger Prize! I actually won it a few months ago, but I couldn't shout about it as much since I removed some of my other social media accounts. It's also my favorite paper I've written, so it's extra great to see that others enjoy it!

Reminder that the deadline for our panel, 'The Extractive Politics of Africa's Energy Transition: A New Dawn or more of the same?' at the DSA 2024 conference at SOAS is on the 23rd Jan! If you have any queries, message me or Gerald via email. #afripolsky #polsky

Call for papers on 'Mining Governance and Green Energy Transitions: Developmental Implications for the Global South' is out now.

Deadline is the 15th April 2024

Please share, and feel free to give me a shout if you wish to know more!

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Testing Afripolsky feed by shamelessly promoting my most recent article about Tanzanian boom and bust in the natural gas sector www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi everyone - I may have just created a curated feed for African Politics => Afripolsky Please help me check if it works by asking me to add you, liking the feed and posting cool stuff to it.

Hey Polisky, I was wondering if there is anybody on here that researches the politics/political economy of mining, oil and gas etc? Especially in the global south!

I've decided that for my first post on bluesky I'll give the people what they want: photos of my cat!