Been thinking about how African dictators in general use generative AI for disinformation campaigns🤔 But I can’t seem to find enough data on this. Scholars of political communication/ disinformation; fellow journalists what are you reading/ publishing and where do I find your articles 👏🏿? 📖

This weeks @thecontinent.org cover. Also Editors please, last year you promised merchandise of all these beautiful covers but you keep acting like the African dictators that raised us. Just empty promise after another 😭😭

we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

A friend was speaking, who said that being Black in Ivy League academia is to self-induce a sort of psychosis born from all the passive-aggressive, gaslighting isolation, and underhanded comments. Still thinking about this to date 😱😱

Winter always comes with a silence that I find arresting. With trees stripped bare and the wind in perpetual freedom to scream. I think across all the seasons, this has got to be my favorite. 😍 I think there is immense beauty in the stillness of winter. ❄️

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

Often when marginalized people say “it is not your story to tell” it translates to it is not your property to exploit. It is a critique of story as property elaborated by Brett Story critique of documentary as form & commodity &Pierre writing that “property is the suicide of society”.

This weeks @thecontinent.org cover focuses on Mali’s failed nation-state and the fuel shortages. There is a thing to be written about African military governments and manufacturing scarcity particularly fuel, look at Burundi and their fuel crisis, now we have Mali.

With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...

In East African elective politics, violence has no gender, rather it is an extension of nation-state anti black infrastructure that relies on violence to legitimize itself. The one thing political scientists continues ignore in their analysis of “why African states fail.”

This weeks @thecontinent.org covers the story of the fall of El Fasher – the last Darfuri city to resist the Rapid Support Forces. On Monday, the Sudanese army negotiated a safe exit for its troops, abandoning a quarter of a million people as genocidal militias swept in.

In Zimbabwe, democracy is under fire in Harare -literally. Unidentified assailants threw petrol bombs into the Sapes Trust building.The bombing took place just hours before opposition leaders were set to hold a press conference on Zimbabwe’s constitutional crisis. Via @thecontinent.org

They can order it here, on Amazon etc. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/media-cultur...

One of my favorite feminist African scholars @wunpini.bsky.social wrote a book on media and decolonization. Politicizing how African languages, traditions can mold knowledge production outside of eurocentrism by centering indigenous ways of being, doing & knowing. Order a copy and thank me later🥂

As Uganda's elections approach, government agencies have a responsibility to uphold press freedom. We condemn the censorship of Nation Media Group journalists covering parliamentary politics. #Uganda #Journalismisnotacrime

Looking for North Africa feminists for something, if anyone is on here, please slide in the DM

"When we speak, we must think seven generations ahead — so that our words heal more than they harm." - Gayogohó Dnọ' (Cayuga Nation) Traditional Teaching

Laughs in “Museveni and the US age debates”

Who today is influencing science a la Big Tobacco or Oil and Gas? In our new preprint we show how tech companies like Meta are capturing research on their product, using mechanisms that subtly (or not so subtly) shape what science gets produced

Today @thecontinent.org essay shows the line between civilian Vs rebel is not a philosophical endeavor like Western media portrays it . This quote sums it up! “That night I realised this was no longer a political war – it was a campaign to exterminate my people. I decided to join the resistance.”

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

“In short, the heyday of “aid” is over. Talk of “aid effectiveness” can rest in peace. The only surviving aid buzzword is “3D”: aligning development with the giver’s diplomatic and defence priorities.”

"The Times’ commitment to Zionism is systemic and generational. For decades, critics of U.S. foreign policy have offered crucial analyses of the paper’s bias. This dossier borrows from and adds to that body of criticism by exposing the material and ideological ties to occupation and apartheid held

5/5 | Towards equality and equity Join Dr Kate Hoskins, @glorianovovic.bsky.social, and fellow researchers if your work challenges inequality and discrimination, and advances fairer and more inclusive societies ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...

Khartoum International Airport briefly reopened on Wednesday before being hit again by drone strikes.

Okay, let’s all agree that conservation as a field of study is solely built on colonial anti-blackness and please on behalf of all Africans we are tired of y’all. Rest and don’t return!

Today’s @thecontinent.org pays tribute to one of Kenya’s longest opposition leaders. While others mourn him some will celebrate his death & that is the complex nature of elective politics for the post “colonial” elite in East Africa where service is not above capitalist interests. Nonetheless RIP.

This country’s problems cannot be analyzed outside of racial capitalism and anti-blackness as a stabilizer for all the violence.

@thecontinent.org wins in the best magazines covers category every issue published . If you disagree take it up with your grandmother. As for the illustrators 10/10. 😂😂😂

To think there is still beauty in this place is wild. But here we are: fall colors +waterfalls and horrible politics.

Assata Shakur 1947-2025

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Europe - BBC investigation www.bbc.com/news/article...

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This weeks @thecontinent.org covers power aspects of aid, if the US who is one of the biggest funders of healthcare sector pulls back what does that mean for healthcare ? Here I am focusing on Uganda whose health budget is heavily subsidised by aid.

Attending this decolonising African media talk and Dr Clark said “copyright within the African media context is suggestive 🤣🤣🤣. Which is both funny and true . RIP to the African artist.

@thecontinent.org where is the merchandise you promised to produce on your break 😳 or was it a light jab at the entrepreneurial spirit narrative of “Africa” as the land of opportunity. 😭😭

"The Nigerian government justifies the use of surveillance technologies under the guise of national security. However, substantial evidence indicates that these technologies are also used to suppress dissent and control political opposition." www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

Today’s @thecontinent.org

I wrote this poem as a meditation on the fact that for children born into its shadow, Empire makes home unliveable while simultaneously making its children unwelcome (putting it mildly) everywhere else. We carry home heavy on our skin. Home is a dangerous spirit. folukeafrica.com/home-is-a-da...

What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI-generated text confuses things. theconversation.com/what-are-the...

Read about Burkina Faso “banning homosexuality” and once again, there is only so much military regimes can do to free Africans from colonial anti-blackness that is foundational to the nation. These military regimes framed as anti-imperial with citizen interests always miss Qn of “which citizens?”

Day one. This could probably be a great time or self imposed pain and I am not a masochist. We will circle back with an evaluation in 4 years. wish me 🍀

The weeks @thecontinent.org has a deeper explanation of the war in Sudan vs the western media narrative naming it as a “war about nothing “.

The level of distrust in Universities and their workers for incoming students this fall is so palpable you can feel it in every zoom /seminars even offers of anonymity don’t seem to work. Knowing institutions, they will be probably be wondering what is wrong with this cohort of students.

This weeks @thecontinent.org

It is one thing to position a subject or set of peoples as the Other of a dominant discourse. It is quite another thing to subject them to that "knowledge," not only as a matter of imposed will and domination, but by the power of inner compulsion and subjective conformation to the norm.-Stuart Hall

Usians online marketing is wild, but what is more insane is how medical drugs are advertised as if it were candy, with even a “how to get your insurance to approve”. Specially all these weight loss medications. Anti-fatness is really an industry.

The @thecontinent.org is back! So this week in African news👇🏿