I’m a big deal now, I think.

Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social on How to Tell the Story of Sudan: The editor in chief of The Continent on how African writers cover Africa differently, with @moniango.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

The rare event — opening a tabernacle made of wooden poles and roofed with iron sheets — illustrated the community’s expanding ranks in a country where until recently Rastafari was not considered a legitimate religion. religionnews.com/2025/08/20/i...

The cost of smelting copper in China is now -$45 a ton. This is historically very unusual. Mining companies normally pay to have their metals processed, now they get paid. Hard to see how countries that plan to become wealthier by processing metals can compete with this.

This isn’t a hard man to track. The authorities could stop him if they wanted to.

Getting back into the swing of things after many moons of mostly academic writing with this fun piece on African women in the #wnba for @thecontinent.org. (Rather than overload alt text, get the screen readable version here. It’s a free magazine sent to your phone wa.me/27738056068?...)

I HATE that this violence is happening in East Africa. But I’m grateful for the independent, thorough, and fair reporting work being carried out by the folks over at The Continent (@thecontinent.org)

Thank you @hararereview.bsky.social for including me in this tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o for @thecontinent.org www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Trying to weather the storm Amid worsening drought and crop failure, Africans are adjusting their lives and habits to climate change. Check out @afrobarometer.bsky.social’s latest survey in this week’s issue of The Continent: bit.ly/202_TC

Masterful writing. The #Continent is a fab innovation. Not just because it’s WhatsApp delivered. But because it’s African writers for African audiences. Sign up. @thecontinent.org @simonallison.bsky.social @siphok.bsky.social please tell author that this story is in-put-down able.

@wynonamutisi.bsky.social is one of my fav fav illustrators!

This is actually a selling point. I want to be in conversation with people (even on the internet) and that disappears above a certain follower count online. You became a “public intellectual” around whom people build camps and shout boos and ululations.

We gave ourselves, and the world, a new way to know Africa. Come celebrate our 200th issue. And of course get your weekly serving of excellent African journalism.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

An edition to read on a big screen because the photos of Algiers are achingly beautiful. Our first in a limited series of photo essays on African cities.

All Protocol Observed Welcome to The Museum of Stolen History. This season, we profiled eight historical artefacts from every corner of Africa. We call it The Museum of Stolen History, in recognition of the fact that much of Africa’s history has been looted or erased. Read it here: bit.ly/TCMoSH

But guys, why aren’t you sorting that Trump tariffs list before publishing it? Do you just want to see me run mad?

Whoah guys, 70s Lagos photos!!!

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 196 of The Continent Undeveloped photo films are gathering dust in studios all over Lagos. What is on those old camera rolls? Find out here. bit.ly/Continent196

I published a story in this week's edition and, for the first time in my career, wondered: will this mean I won't get a visa for the United States? "South Africa’s ruling party has already defeated one white supremacist state. Can it stand firm against another one?"

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

Several African nations could soon run out of HIV drugs following Washington’s freeze on foreign aid. The US funding program for HIV drugs is credited with saving 26 million lives, and its potential closure threatens to “undo 20 years of progress,” the WHO chief said.

„When AIDS Was Funny“, a short film powerfully illustrating how bone-chillingly hateful and indifferent the Reagan administration was www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzD...

Did a Google search for US news with “-Trump” and it’s like there’s a media blackout on the rest of the country. His game on the media to monopolise coverage works all the time.

The US is not a real place. 🤣🤣

The story was on the front page of the Sunday (March 16) newspaper along with three color pages inside. Here’s a gift link to read the story and share it with others. bit.ly/4hIRu37

For more than a year, my colleague Justin Scheck and I looked into why domestic workers from across East Africa, who are promised jobs and a better life in Saudi Arabia, continued to face abuse, starvation and death. Here's what we found.

This app needs to do more to attract non-US users.

The appeal of creeping authoritarian rule is that the initial victims are those "despicable others". But by the time it gets to our turn (Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller's point) there's nothing (objective and subjective) to compare the erosion of values with.

This. About every place on earth.

Shooting an entire episode in one take is the podcast-isation of film. I’m not arguing about it.

Living in this country is like having the most unpleasant case of chronic deja vu 😩

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 194 of The Continent Zambia’s pact with copper mines has decimated another river. Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...

Despite robust environmental laws on Zambia’s books, they are rarely effectively policed, and community complaints against them are not taken seriously. In 2011 and 2015, communities in the Copperbelt sued Sino-Metals – the company whose dam has now burst – for destroying their fields.

This journalist who was beaten by Ugandan state agents, believes they were the Special Forces Command soldiers he saw emerge from the State House compound earlier that day.

*Take screenshot; send to mum*

Wrapped along Lake Kivu’s shores, Bukavu’s streets and buildings tell the story of the decades of struggle over who runs this part of the DRC.

openDemocracy’s ‘outstanding storytelling’ wins prize at TV Journalism Awards

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Reading US journalism actually stresses me. The false empathy and false respect in this is so stressful. You gotta love your countrymen enough to get beyond politeness and actually save their children’s lives. What the hell?

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

Now I too have mixed feelings about them 😫

Our @thecontinent.org newspaper cover from June 2020. The more things change the ...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 193 of The Continent. In Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, everyday life is overshadowed by the threat of returning to war.

Thanks to @pierredevos.bsky.social who was kind enough to speak to me on such short notice this week. South Africa’s ConCourt will likely confirm that men in the country should be allowed to take their wives’ surnames. Also spare a thought for North Americans and the SAVE Act.

Some news from @thecontinent.org this week: • Botswana • Rwanda • Mozambique • With Africa

Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering. In the previous conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea fought together against the Tigrayans. This time round, Asmara appears to be backing a hardline Tigrayan faction Via @thecontinent.org