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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, let’s all agree that conservation as a field of study is solely built on colonial anti-blackness and please on behalf of all Africans we are tired of y’all. Rest and don’t return!

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s @thecontinent.org pays tribute to one of Kenya’s longest opposition leaders. While others mourn him some will celebrate his death & that is the complex nature of elective politics for the post “colonial” elite in East Africa where service is not above capitalist interests. Nonetheless RIP.

Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 4d

This country’s problems cannot be analyzed outside of racial capitalism and anti-blackness as a stabilizer for all the violence.

a man in a uniform is sitting on a boat in the water .

ALT: a man in a uniform is sitting on a boat in the water .

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Guerin @ontopoetic.earth · 5d

The amount of sudden amnesia that's about to happen about genocide.

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 4d

@thecontinent.org wins in the best magazines covers category every issue published . If you disagree take it up with your grandmother. As for the illustrators 10/10. 😂😂😂

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 11d

😂😂😂

Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 12d

To think there is still beauty in this place is wild. But here we are: fall colors +waterfalls and horrible politics.

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 23d

Assata Shakur
1947-2025

A black and white photo of a woman gesturing captioned "Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them./~Assata Shakur"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 28d

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation

www.bbc.com/news/article...

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation

An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.

www.bbc.com

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 28d

Lol

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 28d

Recognising Palestinian statehood: the question is who'd lead it?

With the president approaching 90 years of age and another possible candidate in jail, finding the right leadership would be a challenge

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · 28d

This weeks @thecontinent.org covers power aspects of aid, if the US who is one of the biggest funders of healthcare sector pulls back what does that mean for healthcare ? Here I am focusing on Uganda whose health budget is heavily subsidised by aid.

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Sep 18

Attending this decolonising African media talk and Dr Clark said “copyright within the African media context is suggestive 🤣🤣🤣. Which is both funny and true . RIP to the African artist.

a man wearing a blue hat and a white shirt laughs with his eyes closed

ALT: a man wearing a blue hat and a white shirt laughs with his eyes closed

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Sep 14

@thecontinent.org where is the merchandise you promised to produce on your break 😳 or was it a light jab at the entrepreneurial spirit narrative of “Africa” as the land of opportunity. 😭😭

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · Sep 14

"The Nigerian government justifies the use of surveillance technologies under the guise of national security. However, substantial evidence indicates that these technologies are also used to suppress dissent and control political opposition."

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Digital Surveillance in Africa

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Sep 14

Today’s @thecontinent.org

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Sep 10

I wrote this poem as a meditation on the fact that for children born into its shadow, Empire makes home unliveable while simultaneously making its children unwelcome (putting it mildly) everywhere else. We carry home heavy on our skin. Home is a dangerous spirit.

folukeafrica.com/home-is-a-da...

Home Is A Dangerous Spirit

A poetic polemic on non-belonging

folukeafrica.com

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Sep 5

What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI-generated text confuses things.

theconversation.com/what-are-the...

What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI-generated text confuses things

Decolonizing our understandings of how western institutions have positioned English writing will help universities revisit writing as thinking and invention.

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Sep 5

Read about Burkina Faso “banning homosexuality” and once again, there is only so much military regimes can do to free Africans from colonial anti-blackness that is foundational to the nation. These military regimes framed as anti-imperial with citizen interests always miss Qn of “which citizens?”

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 22

Day one. This could probably be a great time or self imposed pain and I am not a masochist.
We will circle back with an evaluation in 4 years. wish me 🍀

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 17

Meanwhile Uk skipped a parliamentary hearing about the accusations on sexual violence in Kenya. British forces in Kenya are
accused of committing acts of
murder, sexual violence and
arson as recently as 2021.

Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 17

The weeks @thecontinent.org has a deeper explanation of the war in Sudan vs the western media narrative naming it as a “war about nothing “.

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 13

The level of distrust in Universities and their workers for incoming students this fall is so palpable you can feel it in every zoom /seminars even offers of anonymity don’t seem to work. Knowing institutions, they will be probably be wondering what is wrong with this cohort of students.

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 3

This weeks @thecontinent.org

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Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social · Aug 3

It is one thing to position a subject or set of peoples as the Other of a dominant discourse. It is quite another thing to subject them to that "knowledge," not only as a matter of imposed will and domination, but by the power of inner compulsion and subjective conformation to the norm.-Stuart Hall