B. Akinro
@bakinro.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. Working on the memorialization of historical slavery among the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria.
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On average, doctors in Ethiopia earn just $80 a month – a fraction of what their counterparts elsewhere in Africa take home. Now, doctors and healthcare workers are going on strike to demand better pay. But instead of negotiating, the government is locking them up.
Doctors on strike, Ethiopian government on the attack
Doctors and healthcare workers are going on strike to demand better pay. But instead of negotiating, the government is locking them up.
continent.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On average, doctors in Ethiopia earn just $80 a month – a fraction of what their counterparts elsewhere in Africa take home. Now, doctors and healthcare workers are going on strike to demand better pay. But instead of negotiating, the government is locking them up.
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Congratulations to Jennifer Leetsch and Pia Wiegmink on the publication of '(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency' (special issue of 'Life Writing,' 22.2).
See also: ow.ly/W2KH50VT8Ry
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @tandfresearch.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Congratulations to Jennifer Leetsch and Pia Wiegmink on the publication of '(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency' (special issue of 'Life Writing,' 22.2).
See also: ow.ly/W2KH50VT8Ry
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @tandfresearch.bsky.social
See also: ow.ly/W2KH50VT8Ry
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
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Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.
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This is revisionism. The US government was one of the biggest supporters of the South African apartheid regime. There are important things that USAID has done in SA since 1994 - including on HIV mitigation - that perhaps include funding civil society and dismantling initiatives after 1989.
Elon Musk wanting to dismantle the #USAID is starting to make sense. Just pure unmitigated revenge by “Apartheid Clyde.”
February 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is revisionism. The US government was one of the biggest supporters of the South African apartheid regime. There are important things that USAID has done in SA since 1994 - including on HIV mitigation - that perhaps include funding civil society and dismantling initiatives after 1989.
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This is interesting and important. @thecontinent.org has started “Museum of Stolen History: A limited series reclaiming what colonialism stole from us”. Part 1 about Ngwi Ndem (Bangwa Queen ). Curated by Shola Lawal, art direction by Wynona Mutisi.
January 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is interesting and important. @thecontinent.org has started “Museum of Stolen History: A limited series reclaiming what colonialism stole from us”. Part 1 about Ngwi Ndem (Bangwa Queen ). Curated by Shola Lawal, art direction by Wynona Mutisi.
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Wrote for African Identities about how city diplomacy works in the Global South, using examples from Lagos and Freetown! Despite unique challenges, African cities use creative strategies to attract global capital.
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
World cities of the global south: the West African city as an international actor
Cities form international connections through sister-city and twin-town exchanges, they brand themselves to attract businesses and talent, and they even join international cooperative avenues. Inte...
www.tandfonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Wrote for African Identities about how city diplomacy works in the Global South, using examples from Lagos and Freetown! Despite unique challenges, African cities use creative strategies to attract global capital.
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
Downloads are free with my author link here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JWIHX...
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You can listen to me discuss my dissertation on the Urban Limitrophe podcast! Check it out if you're interested in local political participation, African urbanization, or the challenges of purpose-built "megacities" like Eko Atlantic or New Cairo.
www.urbanlimitrophe.com/2024/11/how-...
www.urbanlimitrophe.com/2024/11/how-...
Urban Limitrophe: How Civic Action Shapes Cities and What to Avoid When Building Megacities From Scratch | Dafe Oputu
How Civic Action Shapes Cities and What to Avoid When Building a City From Scratch | Dafe Oputu
www.urbanlimitrophe.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:48 PM
You can listen to me discuss my dissertation on the Urban Limitrophe podcast! Check it out if you're interested in local political participation, African urbanization, or the challenges of purpose-built "megacities" like Eko Atlantic or New Cairo.
www.urbanlimitrophe.com/2024/11/how-...
www.urbanlimitrophe.com/2024/11/how-...
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All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
November 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM
People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa.
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