> Those who caused the #climatecrisis should help #Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a #UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist
> Susan Murabana’s passion for astronomy was only sparked in her 20s as science was just ‘for boys’. Now she tours #Kenya with a telescope on a mission to reveal the cosmos to all children
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
These quaint little fishing towns are so deeply entwined in the trade - local shipping companies got rich by trading slaves, the whole hinterland was engaged in weaving cotton cloth (called „indienne“) which was in turn sold to #African#slave traders. Last photo shows the #cloth distributed all over the region in which #cotton was woven into #textiles in the #earlymodern workshop system.