Tommy Miles
@tommymiles.bsky.social
West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic.
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"Expelled from the Sahel by the front door, France intends to return through Western Sahara, via Morocco."
Eurafrique reloaded
Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel.
buff.ly
September 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"Expelled from the Sahel by the front door, France intends to return through Western Sahara, via Morocco."
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Source: CNN
Eswatini: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation | CNN
Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a…
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July 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The NYT saying in their obituary "Mr. Ngugi (pronounced GOO-ghee)" is really something and that something is probably How in the Year of Our Lord 2025 does this still happen (but also, you know)
September 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The NYT saying in their obituary "Mr. Ngugi (pronounced GOO-ghee)" is really something and that something is probably How in the Year of Our Lord 2025 does this still happen (but also, you know)
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My government is now sanctioning three leading Palestinian human rights groups:
(1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind;
(2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;
(3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Utterly disgraceful.
(1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind;
(2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights;
(3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Utterly disgraceful.
September 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
At this critical time—today, right now—I hope you’ll join me in donating to those in need of food & the basics of survival, like those served by the Sameer Project.
People will die without our help.
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People will die without our help.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
The Sameer Project | Instagram | Linktree
We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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May 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
At this critical time—today, right now—I hope you’ll join me in donating to those in need of food & the basics of survival, like those served by the Sameer Project.
People will die without our help.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
People will die without our help.
linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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Here's the thing: I don't care. The chance that even a single real Palestinian is getting blocked from posting while up at 4AM pleading through a US-backed Israeli genocide while their kid is starving and their husband has been executed for being a medic is good enough to accept these risks.
May 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Here's the thing: I don't care. The chance that even a single real Palestinian is getting blocked from posting while up at 4AM pleading through a US-backed Israeli genocide while their kid is starving and their husband has been executed for being a medic is good enough to accept these risks.
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Breaking depressed-bachelor kayfabe to say you should sign this, and that if Bluesky wants to be a genuinely "different" platform they could start by not nuking the accounts of desperate Palestinians
Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza
[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Breaking depressed-bachelor kayfabe to say you should sign this, and that if Bluesky wants to be a genuinely "different" platform they could start by not nuking the accounts of desperate Palestinians
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Proud to have my name on this letter and the writers have my thanks. The Bluesky team must, must, must do better by the starving, desperate Palestinians they are routinely deleting and banning
May 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Proud to have my name on this letter and the writers have my thanks. The Bluesky team must, must, must do better by the starving, desperate Palestinians they are routinely deleting and banning
A quick visit here seems to confirm this.
May 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A quick visit here seems to confirm this.
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Avez-vous lu le papier d'Éloïse Bertrand et Samiratou Dipama dans Politique Africaine ? Elles reviennent sur les coups d’État de 2022 au #BurkinaFaso et leur réception populaire. shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...
Coups d’état et réactions populaires au Burkina Faso : l’échec de la consolidation démocratique ?
Pas encore de compte ?
shs.cairn.info
January 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Avez-vous lu le papier d'Éloïse Bertrand et Samiratou Dipama dans Politique Africaine ? Elles reviennent sur les coups d’État de 2022 au #BurkinaFaso et leur réception populaire. shs.cairn.info/revue-politi...
Because the last few decades in the USA have proven there is no plausible means by which that happens without an eruption of popular rage scary enough to compel the US political class to allow it.
How about we just change the laws to prohibit the rich from treating us all like cockroaches? Though, if the average American cared about themselves enough, President Bernie Sanders would have already fixed this and Trump would be a defendant in court right now.
December 21, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Because the last few decades in the USA have proven there is no plausible means by which that happens without an eruption of popular rage scary enough to compel the US political class to allow it.
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it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
December 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
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Those brows are formidable
For more about Jamaica Kincaid’s downtown scene era, do read “Putting Myself Together” www.newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Putting Myself Together
From 1995: Jamaica Kincaid on the New York days of her twenties, and the hat that helped her through the throes of youth.
www.newyorker.com
December 21, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Those brows are formidable
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Great critique of Said via Amin by @ingridhk.bsky.social
Afrihistosky
Afrihistosky
Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin | Aeon Essays
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co
November 25, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Great critique of Said via Amin by @ingridhk.bsky.social
Afrihistosky
Afrihistosky
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Afrihistosky #Congo #Belgium #racism #decolonisation
Appalling story of how the Belgium state tried to eliminate « métisse » children in Congo (now DRC).
Did Britain, France, Netherlands and Portugal do similarly?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Appalling story of how the Belgium state tried to eliminate « métisse » children in Congo (now DRC).
Did Britain, France, Netherlands and Portugal do similarly?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Afrihistosky #Congo #Belgium #racism #decolonisation
Appalling story of how the Belgium state tried to eliminate « métisse » children in Congo (now DRC).
Did Britain, France, Netherlands and Portugal do similarly?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Appalling story of how the Belgium state tried to eliminate « métisse » children in Congo (now DRC).
Did Britain, France, Netherlands and Portugal do similarly?
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Join us December 2 for a training on Bluesky, with lots of tips and guidance for social change groups and activists. The training is free for those who need free access to join.
#Bluesky #endX
community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/blue...
#Bluesky #endX
community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/blue...
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Join us December 2 for a training on Bluesky, with lots of tips and guidance for social change groups and activists. The training is free for those who need free access to join.
#Bluesky #endX
community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/blue...
#Bluesky #endX
community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/blue...
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Now have two complete starter packs for "Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ & History". Starting a thread of all of my Africa starter packs, including more specific ones like, country/region, journalists, academics, media orgs, etc.
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
November 25, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Now have two complete starter packs for "Africa News, Policy, Business, Econ & History". Starting a thread of all of my Africa starter packs, including more specific ones like, country/region, journalists, academics, media orgs, etc.
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
Here's the first Africa starter pack: go.bsky.app/BNYnWSJ
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There has been speculation about Deby's intentions for more than a year, but this move is still intriguing - after all, the French presence served as an ultimate guarantee against any rebel columns charging towards N'Djamena from Libya or Darfur. So what's next?
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Chad ends defence cooperation agreement with France
Chad's government said on Thursday it has ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a move that could see French troops leave the Central African country.
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:13 AM
There has been speculation about Deby's intentions for more than a year, but this move is still intriguing - after all, the French presence served as an ultimate guarantee against any rebel columns charging towards N'Djamena from Libya or Darfur. So what's next?
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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#Chad ends #defence agreement with #France.
France still has 1000 troops in the country which has previously been contributing troops to #Barkhane & earlier to Serval
No new statement about #Russia. Yet..
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
France still has 1000 troops in the country which has previously been contributing troops to #Barkhane & earlier to Serval
No new statement about #Russia. Yet..
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
Chad ends defence cooperation agreement with France
Chad's government said on Thursday it has ended its defence cooperation pact with France, a move that could see French troops leave the Central African country.
www.reuters.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
If you want decolonisation go to the economics of Samir Amin | Aeon Essays
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co
November 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Beyond Eurocentrism
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
If you really want decolonisation, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin
aeon.co/essays/if-yo...
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La justice s’appuie une nouvelle fois sur un documentaire de l’émission d’investigation environnementale "Vert de rage".
Un magazine d’utilité publique que France Télévisions a choisi de supprimer cette année.
Un magazine d’utilité publique que France Télévisions a choisi de supprimer cette année.
Un reportage sur l’uranium au Niger de l’ex-émission “Vert de rage”, de France 5, pièce à conviction pour la justice
INFO TÉLÉRAMA – L’émission traquait les écocides, France Télévisions l’a suspendue. Mais la justice s’empare d’un de ses documentaires, diffusé en mars 2022, dans une enquête pour mise en danger d’aut...
www.telerama.fr
November 21, 2024 at 8:23 PM
La justice s’appuie une nouvelle fois sur un documentaire de l’émission d’investigation environnementale "Vert de rage".
Un magazine d’utilité publique que France Télévisions a choisi de supprimer cette année.
Un magazine d’utilité publique que France Télévisions a choisi de supprimer cette année.
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World: Global Weather Hazards Summary, November 21, 2024 - November 27, 2024 #Refugees
Global Weather Hazards Summary, November 21, 2024 - November 27, 2024 - World
Situation Report in English on World and 40 other countries about Agriculture, Drought, Flash Flood and more; published on 20 Nov 2024 by FEWS NET
reliefweb.int
November 20, 2024 at 10:44 PM
World: Global Weather Hazards Summary, November 21, 2024 - November 27, 2024 #Refugees
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Ouganda: L'opposant historique Kizza Besigye comparaît devant une cour martiale de Kampala
Ouganda: L'opposant historique Kizza Besigye comparaît devant une cour martiale de Kampala
Porté disparu depuis samedi, l'opposant historique ougandais Kizza Besigye a comparu ce mercredi 20 novembre devant une cour martiale à Kampala, la capitale. Cette comparution intervient quelques heures après que son épouse a déclaré qu'il avait été « kidnappé » au Kenya.
fr.allafrica.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Ouganda: L'opposant historique Kizza Besigye comparaît devant une cour martiale de Kampala