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December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🎁 What do you gift the person that has everything? How about one with impact? This year, you can help someone stay informed with a Democracy Docket membership.
It’s the perfect gift that keeps on giving.
It’s the perfect gift that keeps on giving.
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Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
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It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's so interesting to me how Makary conspiracy code switches when he talks to podcasters vs national news. This is the kind of stuff MAHA hears from the FDA Commissioner.
couldnt have happened to a slimier guy...
December 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
couldnt have happened to a slimier guy...
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Not only are tariffs taking on added costs to American consumers, but they’re also pushing our allies closer to our adversaries. President Trump is violating the Constitution with these unlawful tariffs, while threatening our economy and national security.
Trump’s tariffs are pushing Canada closer to China and India
Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to double non-U.S. exports by 2035. That means making up with two of Canada’s greatest adversaries.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Not only are tariffs taking on added costs to American consumers, but they’re also pushing our allies closer to our adversaries. President Trump is violating the Constitution with these unlawful tariffs, while threatening our economy and national security.
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This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...
Expert Q&A on the U.S. Boat Strikes
An expert Q & A on the Trump administration's lethal strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats on the high seas.
www.justsecurity.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“In a New York Times guest essay following Trump’s comments, Omar defended her community, writing, ‘The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Stephen Miller’s rhetoric “reminds me” of “Nazis,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar
During a Sunday interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Minnesota congresswoman critiqued the top White House adviser’s “white supremist” comments.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
“In a New York Times guest essay following Trump’s comments, Omar defended her community, writing, ‘The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A law enforcement crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach seized approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine last week from a suspected smuggling vessel. www.stripes.com/branches/coa...
Coast Guard seizes $28M in cocaine off Miami
A U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach law-enforcement crew seized approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine from a suspected smuggling vessel.
www.stripes.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A law enforcement crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach seized approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine last week from a suspected smuggling vessel. www.stripes.com/branches/coa...
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It's really cold here, not temperature per se, but how it feels. My sweat shirts aren't quite warm enough so I pulled out a hoodie that is warmer. It's now an old shirt, so I redesigned it just a tad, and ordered two of the new design. See new design.
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's really cold here, not temperature per se, but how it feels. My sweat shirts aren't quite warm enough so I pulled out a hoodie that is warmer. It's now an old shirt, so I redesigned it just a tad, and ordered two of the new design. See new design.
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Despite residing in a small hamlet in the kingdom of Bagirmi, his works circulated widely and have been discovered in manuscript collections across Mali, Nigeria, Egypt, and Algeria.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Despite residing in a small hamlet in the kingdom of Bagirmi, his works circulated widely and have been discovered in manuscript collections across Mali, Nigeria, Egypt, and Algeria.
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“The imitator is he who accepts the words of the ʿulamāʾ (scholars) without proof and then falls back to blind acceptance.”
al-Wālī, Chad, 1688.
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al-Wālī, Chad, 1688.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“The imitator is he who accepts the words of the ʿulamāʾ (scholars) without proof and then falls back to blind acceptance.”
al-Wālī, Chad, 1688.
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al-Wālī, Chad, 1688.
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Among these was the theologian Muḥammad al-Wālī (fl. 1688), a rationalist whose writings combined classical philosophy and local oral traditions to challenge the ‘blind acceptance’ of religious authority
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Among these was the theologian Muḥammad al-Wālī (fl. 1688), a rationalist whose writings combined classical philosophy and local oral traditions to challenge the ‘blind acceptance’ of religious authority
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While many of these scholars settled in major urban centers such as Kano, others established themselves in rural communities along the frontier.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
While many of these scholars settled in major urban centers such as Kano, others established themselves in rural communities along the frontier.
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The Fulbé (Fulani) constituted another significant scholarly diaspora in the region, especially the Toroɓɓe/Torodbe clerisy, which included some of the most prominent scholars in the kingdoms of Bornu and Bagirmi (modern Chad).
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Fulbé (Fulani) constituted another significant scholarly diaspora in the region, especially the Toroɓɓe/Torodbe clerisy, which included some of the most prominent scholars in the kingdoms of Bornu and Bagirmi (modern Chad).
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The Kano chronicle, for example, records that during the reign of King Yakubu (r. 1452-1463) “the Fulani came to Hausa land from Mali bringing with them books on divinity and etymology,” they then “went to Bornu leaving a few men in Hausaland.”
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Kano chronicle, for example, records that during the reign of King Yakubu (r. 1452-1463) “the Fulani came to Hausa land from Mali bringing with them books on divinity and etymology,” they then “went to Bornu leaving a few men in Hausaland.”
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This literary output by Hausa and Dyula scholars in the Upper Volta exemplifies the shared intellectual tradition of West Africa’s manuscript cultures, which has only recently begun to be fully recognized in modern studies of Africa’s intellectual history.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This literary output by Hausa and Dyula scholars in the Upper Volta exemplifies the shared intellectual tradition of West Africa’s manuscript cultures, which has only recently begun to be fully recognized in modern studies of Africa’s intellectual history.
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Maḥmūd’s Chronicle of Salaga was itself translated (or possibly co-authored) into Hausa by Malam al-Hassan, a Salaga native originally from Djougou (Bénin), who, in the 1890s, compiled the histories of the kingdoms of Mamprusi, Mossi, Dagomba, and Grunshi
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Maḥmūd’s Chronicle of Salaga was itself translated (or possibly co-authored) into Hausa by Malam al-Hassan, a Salaga native originally from Djougou (Bénin), who, in the 1890s, compiled the histories of the kingdoms of Mamprusi, Mossi, Dagomba, and Grunshi
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Labayiru’s descendants, known by the Mande patronymic Kamaghte, served the Gonja kings as religious authorities. Among these was Umar Kunadi, who completed the Kitāb Ghanja in 1762, and copies of it were circulated widely throughout the region
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Labayiru’s descendants, known by the Mande patronymic Kamaghte, served the Gonja kings as religious authorities. Among these was Umar Kunadi, who completed the Kitāb Ghanja in 1762, and copies of it were circulated widely throughout the region
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The Kitāb Ghanja tells of the friendship between the kingdom’s founder, Nāba‘a (d. 1583), a Mande ‘prince’ from Mālī, and the Dyula scholar Mahama Labayiru, as well as the conquests of Gonja’s kings until the mid-18th century.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Kitāb Ghanja tells of the friendship between the kingdom’s founder, Nāba‘a (d. 1583), a Mande ‘prince’ from Mālī, and the Dyula scholar Mahama Labayiru, as well as the conquests of Gonja’s kings until the mid-18th century.
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He led a section of merchant-scholars, mostly of Hausa origin, who were expelled from the town after a civil war in 1892. He is also known as the copyist of the Kitāb Ghanja, an 18th-century chronicle on the history of Gonja
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
He led a section of merchant-scholars, mostly of Hausa origin, who were expelled from the town after a civil war in 1892. He is also known as the copyist of the Kitāb Ghanja, an 18th-century chronicle on the history of Gonja
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Umaru’s literary legacy is substantial, comprising more than 130 works, at least forty of which are still extant. Maḥmūd, on the other hand, was the chronicler of Salaga in his capacity as one of its ward chiefs (lampurwura).
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Umaru’s literary legacy is substantial, comprising more than 130 works, at least forty of which are still extant. Maḥmūd, on the other hand, was the chronicler of Salaga in his capacity as one of its ward chiefs (lampurwura).
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While figures such as Umaru al-Kanawi were merchants with far-reaching trading interests, they were also distinguished scholars in their own right.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
While figures such as Umaru al-Kanawi were merchants with far-reaching trading interests, they were also distinguished scholars in their own right.
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This is especially the case for regions such as the Upper Volta, which were long considered peripheral to the better-known historic centers of learning, like Timbuktu, Kano, and Ngazargamu.
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Texts from the Periphery: Manuscript cultures in West Africa's frontier regions.
At the turn of the 20th century, one of the most remarkable contributions to African ethnography was produced by Umaru al-Kanawi, a Hausa scholar born in Kano (Nigeria), who, after a brief stay in Sal...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is especially the case for regions such as the Upper Volta, which were long considered peripheral to the better-known historic centers of learning, like Timbuktu, Kano, and Ngazargamu.
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