#Teaching is a #vocation I take very seriously, so it’s worthwhile reading #anonymous #student #evaluations at the end of a taxing #academic year. These two stood out for me in 2025/2026.

Contrary to apocalyptic forecasting, #African #economies are now more resilient than ever to external shocks. Three factors help explain why, according to this vital Financial Times analysis by Ken Opalo: www.ft.com/content/d84c...

Congratulations to Cassava Republic Press – the first #black-owned #African #publisher ever #shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction! It was co-founded in #Abuja, #Nigeria, 20 years ago by the indomitable Bibi Bakare-Yusuf: womensprize.com/library/the-...

Congratulations to Sabastian Sawe of #Kenya for #winning the #London #Marathon in under two hours AND for breaking a world record! www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

Check out this important Democracy Now! interview featuring #AfricanAmerican #legal #scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw discussing her new #memoir #Backtalker, the gutting of #US #voting #rights and #critical #race #theory. www.democracynow.org/2026/5/6/kim...

“Dignity Must Define Us” was my #refrain as #Liberia’s 177th Independence Day Nat’l Orator in July 2024. I used it during a Feb 2026 Public Forum in #Finland to outline my #utopian vision for the world: #freedom from the #indignities of #capitalism, #racism & #sexism. www.youtube.com/shorts/00wrH...

The United Nations passed a landmark #resolution last month declaring #transatlantic #slavery the ‘gravest crime against humanity’. 123 votes in favour! A true #reckoning would be if #reparations follow this largely #symbolic #recognition: news.un.org/en/story/202...

Did you know that the African Union designated 2026-2036 as the ‘Decade of Reparations’ to account for #slavery and #colonialism as #crimes against #humanity? www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Are you concerned about extreme #wealth #inequality and have the skills to do something about it? Apply by 27 April for The Global Tax Fairness Fellowship: www.moralambition.org/fellowships/...

Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon is a lushly-told #memoir about defying paternal strictures, breaking free of societal norms, and confronting the legacies of #colonialism. I highly recommend this #captivating story about growing up #Rastafarian in #Jamaica!

I look forward to #reconvening an inter-collegiate seminar/short course in #Liberia this #August based on my award-winning #book! Students at #UL, #AMEU, #StellaMaris & #UMU can apply BEFORE 1 June. Grateful to the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa & LSE Department of Social Policy for funding.

The #radical #geography #journal Antipode recently published this important ‘Conversation’ on #African #decolonial #theory: bit.ly/4kRczfi

A new exhibition at the #Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, showcases #LGBTQ+ contemporary #artists across #Africa and its #diasporas. It features almost sixty works and runs until August 2026. africa.si.edu/exhibitions/...

The late #literary #icon #ToniMorrison expressed a deep desire for #adventure and #freedom centring the experiences of #AfricanAmericans in her versatile #writing. Check out this guide to some of her most important #books: bit.ly/4rMVBks

Days before America-Israel attacked #Iran unprovoked, I argued during a Public Forum in #Helsinki that the int’l rules-based order backs brute force. I gave examples incl. #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza & #US aggression towards #Iran. Boy, were my words were prescient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6_U...

Excited to discuss ‘Alternative Development in a Post-Aid World’ as #keynote #speaker tomorrow during the Finnish Society of Development Research’s #DevelopmentDays 2026 Annual Int’l Conference in #Helsinki, #Finland: www.robtelneajaipailey.com/events/2026/...

#Poverty #reduction measures across #Africa are contributing to forecasts of its #economic #growth outpacing #Asia in #2026. bit.ly/3Mc2gFq

This ROAPE journal special issue on ‘Frantz Fanon at 100: Class Struggle and the Future of African Liberation’ looks fantastic: www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu...

#Nigerian #Afrobeat pioneer and #activist #FelaKuti became the first #African #artist to receive a #Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He was honoured posthumously this month, nearly three decades after his death. bit.ly/4rDjWJr

Looking forward to participating in this #panel - co-sponsored by Global Visions and the Finnish Society for Development Research (FSDR) - as part of the FSDR’s #DevelopmentDays Conference 2026 two weeks from now in #Helsinki, #Finland. bit.ly/3Mint0I

I’m looking forward to speaking at the #LSE’s 4 February Impact Meet-up featuring my award-winning Cambridge University Press #monograph: www.robtelneajaipailey.com/events/2026/...

If you are a #young #African #economist shaping #research and #knowledge #production, developing #innovation, and providing concrete solutions to present and future crises in our beloved #continent, apply by 15 February for the Africa NextGen Economist Prize worth €10,000: bit.ly/4s40k1N

Thanks to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for rejecting a US Dept. of Health and Human Services $1.6 million project which intended to delay #HepatitisB #vaccinations for 7K #GuineaBissau #newborns in order to study vaccine dose timing: bit.ly/3LutZ46

#Russia is luring young #Africans to fight its #imperial #war in #Ukraine with false promises of #civilian #jobs. Instead, recruits are used as #cannon #fodder during #military operations. My fellow Africans, please resist the urge to die in someone else’s #conflict! bit.ly/4bKGSl3

This is #diplomatic #reciprocity at its best: #Mali and #BurkinaFaso recently banned #American #visitors in response to US #visa #bans on their citizens: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

I’m grateful to Fatima Kromah and (Auntie) Miatta Fahnbulleh for gifting me this lovely T-shirt quoting my July 2024 Independence Day National Oration in #Liberia. I hope #dignity defines all of us in #2026: www.robtelneajaipailey.com/events/2024/...

#Black #women #academics are both hypervisible and invisible in hostile higher ed institutions across the #UK – and further afield – because of #structural #racism and #sexism. This definitely resonates with my experience: bit.ly/45aXqP0

Are you a mid-career #policymaker, #activist, #researcher or #practitioner committed to addressing #inequality? Apply by 16 January 2026 for the fully-funded 2026-27 AFSEE fellowship directed by my colleague Armine Ishkanian at the LSE's III: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/apply

This is a chilling New York Times investigative piece about how #political #elites in #Kenya are profiting from a lucrative #labour #migration scheme that leaves #Kenyan #women #domesticworkers at the mercy of #SaudiArabia’s #kafala system: bit.ly/3XUU7aU

Diébédo Francis Kéré, the best-known #African #architect of his generation, talks to the Financial Times about his world-renowned #craft: bit.ly/4aLr9li

As we approach Int’l Anti-Corruption Day on Dec 9, I'm reflecting on how much I’ve enjoyed equipping #children with the verbal tools to challenge the confusing ethical codes of adults in their lives through my anti-#corruption kids’ books Gbagba & Jaadeh!: www.robtelneajaipailey.com/author

#Sudan still remains the world’s worst #humanitarian #crisis: www.aljazeera.com/tag/sudan-war/

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” recently won the National Book Award for non-fiction. It is a scathing critique of our complicity in #Israel’s #genocide in #Gaza. So much for the fragile faux #ceasefire that now hangs by a thread: bit.ly/4rtyOe6

Has the African Union lost its way? ABSOLUTELY! bit.ly/4hORf8x

By “using algorithms, data and digital technologies to exert power over others, and take data without consent”, do #AI #companies follow the playbook of #empire? Read this Conversation analysis on #digital #colonialism to find out: bit.ly/4p9dUPV

My latest #commentary for Al Jazeera English is a nuanced critique of #Liberia’s offer to host #Salvadoran national #KilmarAbregoGarcía – who was #unlawfully #deported by the #Trump administration. I argue that Liberia’s policies must not be shaped by the whims of #racist white men: bit.ly/43lKftU

Where was global condemnation last week when #Sudan’s #paramilitary Rapid Support Forces embarked on a #killing #spree after capturing the #NorthDarfur state of #ElFashir? Videos, satellite imagery and testimonies from the ground paint a chilling picture of #death and #destruction: bit.ly/3JjGGO3

#Nigerian #Nobel #laureate, #literary icon and political activist #WoleSoyinka says the #UnitedStates revoked his #visa for being a vocal critic of its first-felon-in-chief. What a travesty! bit.ly/4qGWFqk

“His view of Nkrumah resembles Nkrumah’s view of Garvey: a visionary whose vision is easy to admire if you ignore what he actually did”, argues this sobering New Yorker review of Howard French's new #biography of #Ghana’s first post-independence #president #KwameNkrumah: bit.ly/46XpHZy

#Democratic #socialist #ZohranMamdani, who built his campaign around #progressive #politics, will become #NewYork’s youngest #mayor in more than a century and the first #Muslim of #SouthAsian origin. Could this foreshadow #UnitedStates mid-terms next year? bit.ly/4qJMMIc

As the #global #assault on #migrants intensifies, this deeply #personal #commentary I wrote in 2017 for Al Jazeera English about growing up #undocumented in the #UnitedStates is as relevant now as it was back then. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...

Is #recognition of a #Palestinian state by 150+ countries a hollow, symbolic gesture amidst #Israeli #aggression, #genocide in #Gaza and #occupation of the #WestBank? Listen to this podcast about what real #sovereignty for Palestinian people would mean. bit.ly/4nGYzEN

#Africa’s #trade relationship with #China is alarmingly lopsided, with high #imports resulting in a US$61.93 billion #deficit for the continent in 2024. We must #industrialise and #export #manufactured #goods to balance the scales! bit.ly/3KiNpb0

Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the #memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me by indomitable #Indian #author and #activist #ArundhatiRoy (bit.ly/4m4oPsn)! I can’t wait to read the full memoir, published last month by #Scribner.

I found #ZadieSmith’s ‘The Art of the Impersonal Essay’, published in the #NewYorker, utterly engrossing: bit.ly/4mA6XVW

Thanks to Verity Online News for publishing this story about my #Monrovia #intercollegiate #seminar #series held in #Liberia July 2025: bit.ly/3V56TlB

Created by a #German #cartographer, the 16th century #Mercator #map paints #Africa and #Europe as the same size when #Africa is actually three times #bigger. Now, the African Union has endorsed a campaign advocating for the more accurate #EqualEarth #projection. Read more here: bit.ly/4lE90aO

Congrats to #Liberia #School of #Law first year students Peace Khasu and Abigail Dorbor for winning the inaugural #ECOWAS #Moot #Court #competition last month! They were ably coached by my former mentee Gerald Yeakula. bit.ly/4mRMM6p

The #ThomasSankara Mausoleum in #Ouagadougou, #BurkinaFaso, is now live! bit.ly/4mgCRqS

Cassava Republic Press co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf makes an important distinction between how ‘local’ and ‘global’ are framed in #literary #publishing: neither are neutral, both carry value judgments about whose stories are 'universal' and 'worthy' of #international #acclaim: bit.ly/3Hx7dGC