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

I had such a blast last month engaging with #Liberian #university #students and #primary #school #pupils in separate sessions featuring my #awardwinning #monograph (bit.ly/3MHh0Z2) and #anticorruption #children’s #books (www.robtelneajaipailey.com/author).

Listen to this wide-ranging #interview with the brilliant Zachariah Mampilly, who discusses how #racist and #colonial frameworks continue to shape the position of #Africa and the larger #GlobalSouth in #international #relations: bit.ly/4koxAMP

Thanks to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Programme for compiling this interactive table tracking the most up-to-date US-Africa #bilateral #trade data. Regressive #American #tariffs will gut #African #economies. bit.ly/47jSauf

Here’s a fascinating read by Foreign Policy’s Howard French about how the #politics of #NewYork #democratic #socialist #mayoral #candidate Zohran Mamdani “seem broadly inspired by his father” Mahmood Mamdani, a renowned #scholar of the #African #state. bit.ly/3J8fJMI

In keeping with my 2024 Independence Day National Oration (bit.ly/4168sDd), I urge compatriots to support Liberia Giving Month by donating NOW: radarforward.com/liberiagivin.... Kudos to SMART Liberia for building back better and differently. Happy In Defiance Day 2025!

I’m looking forward to engaging with #Liberian #youth during back-to-back events in #Paynesville (bit.ly/454IRNj) and #Monrovia (bit.ly/3UjvTVG) this week. Thanks to Alphia Faith Kemokai of the YPLS Africa and Nyema-Monday Merriam of the LDC for organising!

All hail #Liberica #coffee, once a prominent #export from #Liberia! bit.ly/3F2QxFE

Check out this #interview with my brilliant sistah-friend and #international #relations #scholar Amy Niang, who argues that #Africa’s mission must be “to humanise the world, to affirm humanity where the powerful relentlessly desecrate it.” bit.ly/3STcr1x

How the International Monetary Fund (#IMF) #underdevelops #Africa, indeed! bit.ly/43S9MdJ

I’ve always pursued #research with real world relevance. So, it was an #honour to receive the #LSE’s inaugural Rising Star Impact Prize last night. The Prize—which includes #funding— is in recognition of my scholarly contributions to the passage of #Liberia’s #dualcitizenship #law in 2022.

If you’re in #Monrovia, #Liberia, or its environs on 7 July, check out this #public #lecture I’ll be delivering entitled ‘Aid and Its Discontents’. I’m grateful to #colleagues at the University of Liberia’s IBB School for International Studies for organising. bit.ly/3ZG9rJM

Here is a helpful Africa Report explainer about how #Africa is already reeling from the escalation of #violence between #Israel and #Iran: bit.ly/3HCBzaj

#Africans should be very wary of the #cult of Ibrahim Traoré of #BurkinaFaso, argues Minna Salami in this brilliant commentary challenging #Africa’s PAWN (Populist Anti-Western Nativism): bit.ly/3FvYxzq

If you’re a #black #British or non-UK domiciled #black #Caribbean person interested in #researching the legacies of #transatlantic #slavery, apply by 7 July for this #PhD #studentship at University College London! bit.ly/4l1V0sd

#Kenyan #literary #titan Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who joined the #ancestors last week, left behind a rich body of work. I smiled after digging up this co-authored article I wrote about him in #2006 and now need to find our #podcast #interview. RIPP, #Ngũgĩ! bit.ly/43nwFGU

Whenever I have doubts about staying in #academia, I receive feedback like this from #students reminding me that I’m exactly where I’m meant to be at this very particular moment in my life.

#America would #lose any #trade #war with #China, says this spot-on #FinancialTimes analysis, since other #countries trade significantly more with China than the US: bit.ly/3Gw0HiC

As the first #LatinAmerican (#Argentinian) #pontiff, the late #PopeFrancis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) will be remembered most for preaching a ‘theology of the people’ and adopting a more globalised #foreignpolicy for the #Catholic #church: bit.ly/443Bupv

While #Broadway’s attempts to increase #representation have faltered, #London’s #stages are having a #black #renaissance, according to this illuminating #FinancialTimes analysis: bit.ly/4m3Q5Yi

My November 2024 open letter of rebuke to #Liberia’s #dishonourable #lawbreakers (bit.ly/3Cwmzbo), aka the so-called ‘majority bloc’ of our House of Representatives, has been vindicated by a recent #SupremeCourt ruling declaring their actions #unconstitutional (bit.ly/3ROTlJt).

It was such a pleasure workshopping my #anti-corruption #children’s #books (bit.ly/4jHCBPZ) earlier this month at Institución Educativa Antonia Santos in #Cartagena, #Colombia, as well as presenting my #monograph (bit.ly/3MHh0Z2) at both Universidad de Cartagena and Universidad del Valle (Cali).

I’ve been intrigued by San Basilio de #Palenque in #Colombia, the first #liberated #African town in the #Americas, ever since I started co-supervising Kandya Obezo-Casseres’ fascinating #PhD #research. So, it was a pleasure visiting #Palenque with Kandya and co. on my birthday in mid-April.

Was #Liberia’s #warlord-turned-#president #CharlesTaylor a #CIA operative? It’s been over a decade since I wrote this African Arguments commentary (bit.ly/4jidsvF) responding to a #BostonGlobe story claiming (then later denying) Taylor-CIA connections (bit.ly/42Bg4gX).

#Africa should beware of #subimperial #powers, says this incisive analysis about the #UAE’s dangerously self-serving interventions in the continent disguised as ‘South-South’ #development #cooperation: bit.ly/3Y9XmeZ

The protracted #crisis in #Sudan is a regional proxy #war between the #Sudanese #army (backed by #Egypt & #SaudiArabia) & #paramilitary RSF (backed by #UAE). So, how did a recent #UK conference on Sudan expect to broker #peace without #Sudanese parties to the #conflict?https://bit.ly/4ipFTXg

I'm looking forward to #teaching an inter-collegiate seminar/short #course in #Liberia this #July based on my award-winning #monograph (bit.ly/3MHh0Z2)! Students at #UL, #AMEU, #SMPU and #UMU can apply by 5 May. Very grateful to the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at LSE for collaborating.

Nowhere is the #US’ 21st century #neocolonial hold over #Liberia more apparent than its attempt to manipulate the country’s #transitional #justice process, writes Jon Ort in this scathing critique published in Africa Is a Country (bit.ly/48eKPL1). I appreciate the hyperlinks to my published work.

How open are #Africa’s #borders to #Africans? Check out the 2024 edition of the African Development Bank's and African Union's Africa Visa Openness Index: www.visaopenness.org

If you follow #politics in #Africa closely, check out this interactive map, curated by African Arguments, tracking the continent’s #2025 #elections: bit.ly/3kFuIl8

“Rather than likening aid suspension to the apocalypse, we should instead embrace it as a catalyst for 21st century decolonization." My take on #Washington’s executive (dis)order freezing #USAID #funding was published today in #Liberia’s Daily Observer. Read it and reflect: bit.ly/3DpNgPZ