Earlier this year I wrote a non-fiction article about my thought processes in worldbuilding. I have been obsessed with a future where central governments are no more, and everything is decentralised like the fediverse. The article is part of an anthology on Afro centered futurisms, and here is a Publishers Weekly announcement of the book. Description in the alt text.
I want to learn more about modern Africa to combat any biases I may have picked up from public schooling in the US -- and just because I realized I don't know much about African countries and people. Does anyone have favorites as far as historical events, culture, religion/spirituality, etc.? #history#Africa@histodons
I have read Nnedi Okorafor's novella, Binti, and I found it wonderful (as well as very entertaining). Also, with a witty reflection on the decolonization of museums.
❗️The applications for a Junior Researcher position for the project "KNOW-AFRICA - Knowledge networks in 19th century Africa", coordinated by Sara Albuquerque at the University of Évora, closes on 20 November.
Field rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority pose in front of over 12 tonnes of metal snares confiscated in just one year in Murchison Falls national park. The snares are a cheap and effective method of poaching wildlife for sophisticated criminal syndicates who often exploit impoverished communities to supply a booming global black market for wildlife.
> Those who caused the #climatecrisis should help #Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a #UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist
📗 Liverpool University Press published the latest book authored by Mário Machaqueiro: “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”.
In it, the author focuses on the ways Portuguese colonial administration dealt with Muslim communities in #Mozambique and #GuineaBissau.
@bookstodon "I want to find the hidden connections. I want to find the differences in the familiar and the familiar in the differences. Whenever I hear a little voice inside me go 'Oh, that’s not really my thing,' I know I’m destined for it eventually. Because I want to go on an adventure—and books are how I go. Because I want to become a different person—and books are how I change."
In discussing Yvonne Vera's "description of Mbira music,"* Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri says that he takes her writing "to mean that Mbira is fundamental in a way that entertainment and leisure do not capture."
In its turn, Muchiri's phrase pretty much lays out the very way in which #literature is fundamental to me.