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Sheila Semo
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Soy estratega de comunicación y asesora en diplomacia cultural. Fuera del turismo y la cultura, me apasiona mucho la justicia social y, como resultado, he trabajado para varias organizaciones que se ocupan de cuestiones de justicia social.
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History of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of West Africa

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-complete...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th century
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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capitanswing.bsky.social
La ley del más fuerte, la ausencia de normas de convivencia, físicas o virtuales, no es libertad, es tiranía.
Su libertad acaba donde empieza la de los demás, no te dejes engañar.
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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rhutabhayga.bsky.social
Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was the first African American and one of the first women in colonial America to publish a book of poetry.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
#BlackHistoryMonth
Phillis Wheatley Peters (c. 1753 – 1784) was the first African American and one of the first women in colonial America to publish a book of poetry. Enslaved as a child and later freed, she became a transatlantic literary figure whose neoclassical verse and moral insight challenged 18th-century assumptions about race, intellect, and art. Captured and sold into slavery at about age 7, Wheatley was brought to Boston aboard the slave ship Phillis, from which she took her name. Purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley, she was educated in the household—a rarity for enslaved persons—learning English, Latin, Greek, and biblical literature. By her early teens, she was composing poetry that reflected neoclassical style and Christian themes. Wheatley’s first major recognition came with “An Elegiac Poem on the Death of the Reverend George Whitefield” (1770). In 1773, with support from English abolitionist patron Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in London. It was the first book by an enslaved African and made her an international sensation, praised by figures including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Freed shortly after her book’s publication, Wheatley married John Peters, a free Black man, in 1778. Economic hardship and the deaths of her children marked her final years; she died impoverished at 31. Long after, her writings became a cornerstone of African American literature, cited by abolitionists and honored through memorials, including the Boston Women’s Memorial and Wheatley Hall at UMass Boston.
February 7, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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cobbo3.bsky.social
In Dakar fishing village, Senegalese girls enticed back to school with offer of surfing lessons.
In Dakar fishing village, surfing entices girls back to school
For generations, Seynabou Tall's ancestors have fished, dived and rowed off the coast of Dakar, where the 14-year-old, who quit school nearly four years ago, is now learning to surf.
www.rfi.fr
February 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
sheilasemo.bsky.social
✨️Isaías 41:10🧡

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Be Alright (LIVE) - Evan Craft, Redimi2, Danny Gokey
YouTube video by Evan Craft
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February 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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ICYMI: "@tgpeterson.bsky.social's 'Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency' is a deeply researched and strikingly lucid account of how one colonial war reshaped the meaning of modern warfare."

www.middleeasteye.net/discover/rev...
Revolutionary Warfare: How France lost Algeria but developed a new kind of social war
Terrence G Peterson's book explores how 'pacifying' Algerian society became a focus of the French campaign against independence
www.middleeasteye.net
February 4, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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trahias.bsky.social
Portrait of Baltimore artist Joyce J Scott (born in 1948) painted in 2022-2023 by African American artist, Stephen Towns (born in 1980).

Mixed media acrylic, oil, metal leaf on panel

National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 1, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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lamarea.com
Lo que está en juego es si estas empresas han construido imperios tecnológicos valorados en miles de millones de dólares sobre cimientos de material protegido por derechos de autor.
Por @marcodallastella.com 
Los chatbots de inteligencia artificial pueden copiar libros enteros, y las tecnológicas lo sabían | lamarea.com
Un estudio demuestra que sistemas de inteligencia artificial almacenan obras protegidas y pueden reproducirlas casi palabra por palabra.
www.lamarea.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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bpozo27.bsky.social
2 Thessalonians 2:16✝️

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,

#God
#Bible
February 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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literland.bsky.social
"Toda moral humana se encierra en esta sola frase: hacer a los demás tan felices como uno mismo desea serlo, y no causarles nunca un mal que no quisiéramos recibir. Estos son, amigo mío, los únicos principios que debemos seguir".
Marqués de Sade
📷 Sergio Larraín
February 4, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Can a festival meaningfully applaud African creativity while its sponsor profits from African death? africasacountry.com/2026/02/co-o...
Co-opting African literature
Can a festival meaningfully applaud African creativity while its sponsor profits from African death?
africasacountry.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Yanni’s Global Impact: The Diplomacy of Music

Yanni's career exemplifies musical diplomacy, merging cultural heritage with contemporary performance. His concerts at sensitive archaeological sites, including the Acropolis and Taj Mahal, navigated complex state protocols and financial risks,…
Yanni’s Global Impact: The Diplomacy of Music
Yanni's career exemplifies musical diplomacy, merging cultural heritage with contemporary performance. His concerts at sensitive archaeological sites, including the Acropolis and Taj Mahal, navigated complex state protocols and financial risks, redefining heritage performance and fostering international cultural dialogue.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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"After beginning his account in #Timbuktu, Jeppie traces the literary connections among places as distant as Marrakesh in the north and Sokoto in the south" - Shamil Jeppie's "Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History" now out @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Esther Mahlangu, South African Ndebele artist known for her bold large-scale paintings, including murals, that reference her Ndebele heritage #WomensArt
Photo featuring a standing older Black woman in colourful cape standing next to a wall with colourful geometric patterns
January 25, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents on Saturday, was a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. “He wanted to be helpful, to help humanity and have a career that was a force of good in the world,” a colleague said. trib.al/0Yb3jXF
People in winter clothes at a vigil for Alex Pretti. One person in a medical mask and gloves holds a poster that says JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI. A headline reads: "Alex Pretti, the Man Killed by Agents, Was a Nurse and U.S. Citizen" Photo by David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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En 2019, la UNESCO acordó celebrar, cada 24 de enero, el #DiaMundialdelaCulturaAfricanayAfrodescendiente. El objetivo es «riendir homenaje a las numerosas y vibrantes culturas del continente africano y de las diásporas africanas en el mundo»

¡Feliz días para todos y todas! 🤩

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Día Mundial de la Cultura Africana y de los Afrodescendientes
24 de enero
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January 24, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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La fotografía de vida silvestre, dice el autor de la imagen, puede ser algo más que fotografiar al animal. Puedes contar una historia de su lugar en la naturaleza.

📷 Kyle Goetsch

#wildlifephotography #wildlife #landscape #photography #photo #nature #africa #giraffe #fotografos #jirafa #fotografia
January 24, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Excellent essay. www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...
Mamdani’s Slow Poison - The Elephant
Mahmood Mamdani’s Slow Poison reaffirms my long-held views on the value of private remembrance as social history.
www.theelephant.info
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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literland.bsky.social
"Quien nos roba los sueños nos roba la vida".
📷T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf y Vivienne Eliot (1932)
En recuerdo de Virginia Woolf, nacida tal día como hoy de 1882.
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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bpozo27.bsky.social
Ephesians 5:2✝️

and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

#God
#Bible
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Every time I see images of the East African coast I am gutted by how long it has been since I have been there. Honestly one of the most unique and beautiful spaces I've ever been in.
rhaplord.bsky.social Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · Jan 9
Views of Mombasa, Kenya

ca. 1875, 1897, 1970
#archivesxt
January 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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bpozo27.bsky.social
Proverbs 4:23✝️

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

#God
#Bible

Proverbios 4:23✝️

Por sobre todas las cosas cuida tu corazón, porque de él mana la vida.

#Dios
#Biblia
January 9, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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bartlebooth.bsky.social
The future is here. And it does not desperately need Venezuelan oil.
ediparolev.bsky.social Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 29d
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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#FelizFinde

¿Pensando en planes 🤩?

Ven a nuestras exposiciones en Madrid:

🔸 #HistoriasTejidas, que descubre el papel de las mujeres en las civilizaciones prehispánicas mexicanas a través del arte textil

🔸#Aeolia, una instalación que reflexiona sobre la creación literaria y la #IA
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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itziarrga.bsky.social
📢 NUEVO CURSO GEA
"África en movimiento: hoy y siempre”

👩🏽‍🏫 10 sesiones
🗓️ 3-26 de febrero '26

Objetivo: visibilizar y reflexionar sobre el protagonismo de las sociedades del África subsahariana en la historia global.

✍🏽 lacasaencendida.es/sociedad/africa-en-movimiento-hoy-y-siempre?eventId=3535
Africa En Movimiento Hoy Y Siempre | La Casa Encendida
La Casa Encendida es un centro social y cultural de la Fundación Montemadrid, un espacio abierto y dinámico, para todos los públicos, donde conviven algunas de las expresiones artísticas más vanguardi...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM