Prachtig nummer weer @seadanourhussen.bsky.social @oneworld.nl

"Every version of me knows that education, health care, housing, clean water, and sufficient food are rights and not privileges. (...)Yet to say these things is (in my view) really to say the bare minimum: it is almost saying nothing at all." @zadiesmith.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Over de mediaberichtgeving van afgelopen weekend. Wanneer demonstranten Hitlergroeten brengen en extreemrechtse leuzen roepen, is terughoudendheid in het gebruik van de term ‘extreemrechts’ niet gepast www.linkedin.com/posts/nikkis...

We kunnen blijven klagen over verrechtsing v media - maar ze doen wat zij (of de aandeelhouders) willen - of echt onafhankelijke alternatieven steunen. Júist nu. Hebben jullie een (digitaal of papieren) abonnement op OneWorld? Of je in ieder geval geabonneerd op de gratis OneWorld nieuwsbrief?

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rarely mentioned in Dutch history books, Boni is a hero in Suriname. Tessa Leuwsha wrote a book about the18th century freedom fighter who, from the swamps of Suriname, resisted the Dutch colonizers. "It shapes your identity when you know heroes from your own history." www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/t...

More on the jolloff rice chronicles... Very few people know, but I'm a jolloff rice snob. Mine is extraordinary. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well written piece by Gbemidepo Popoola in @premiumtimes.bsky.social about the tragic death of Finidi George's youngest brother in 1995: "He was rushed to a nearby Ibadan hospital. But what followed exposed a tragedy larger than one boy." www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/footb...

One brother lifted the Champions League; the other died on a stadium road because a hospital could not provide water. 30 years ago a stray bullet hit the spine of Igeniwari George, a promising Nigerian footballer. Then Nigeria's systemic failures killed him. www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/footb...

In Nederlandse geschiedenisboeken komt hij amper voor, maar in Suriname is hij een held: Boni, de vrijheidsstrijder die zich verzette tegen de Nederlandse kolonisator. In haar boek Boni, dat vanmiddag de PrinsjesBoekenprijs 2025 kan winnen, gaat schrijver Tessa Leuwsha op zoek naar zijn verleden.

It is a big gap in understanding to not be able to (at the very least) draw parallels between the logics of colonialism, fascism, apartheid and Jim Crow.

Today is publication day for my new book,The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, a fresh and deeply researched history of global politics at mid-century. Get your copy now!

Great article by @senayboztas.bsky.social about what's really created the housing crisis in the Netherlands: the perks of the house possessing class and decades of neoliberal neglect of the social housing market. Pity it isn't in a Dutch paper. | @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ze was kritisch op de Nederlandse onderdrukker, streed voor vrouwenrechten en richtte een meisjesschool op: Kartini. Wie was deze Javaanse schrijfster, die zelfs na haar gedwongen huwelijk bleef strijden voor vrouwenemancipatie? @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social

Reminder that the most expensive living areas in Lagos are flood zones (which is why one should never go house hunting in the dry season). If you like to keep your feet dry, come to the mainland. #Lekki #Nigeria

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.

Claim: “Nigeria has one of the lowest budgets per capita in the world in dollar terms.” Verdict: Unproven africacheck.info/fasua_economy

Reminder that the most expensive living areas in Lagos are flood zones (which is why one should never go house hunting in the dry season). If you like to keep your feet dry, come to the mainland. #Lekki #Nigeria

It's about time! #Africa #worldmap #AU #Mercator #EqualEarthProjection www.reuters.com/world/africa...

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For centuries, the European perspective dominated African historiography. Sudanese-British journalist Zeinab Badawi wrote a historical account from an African perspective. "The idea that Africa didn't record its own history is a mistake." My interview for @oneworld.nl www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/z...

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Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City | via @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Ik ben echt elke dag weer volkomen uit het veld geslagen door het nieuws uit Gaza. Ik weet me met mijn machteloosheid geen raad.

Waarom je soms wel op een stuk rood vlees moet reageren @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power. africasacountry.com/2025/08/poli...

Unser Buch ist endlich da! Lest es, wenn ihr mehr über den vergessenen Schwarzen Aktivismus der 1970er, 80er und 90er erfahren wollt.

Finland’s capital Helsinki goes a FULL YEAR WITHOUT A TRAFFIC DEATH! Interesting, Cape Town, SA, one of the cities in Africa with the LOWEST TRAFFIC fatality rates has about 500 deaths a year. Lagos, Nigeria, which has among the HIGHTEST TRAFFIC DEATHS on the continent reports about 1,200 a year.

In Brazil we know her as Oxum. ❤️ #orixás #candomblé

Osun, among other things, is the #Yoruba orisha of fertility. This is why an important stop today in the Osogbo Sacred Grove on the way to the actual Osun shrine is this statue of Olomoyoyo, the one with many children. #Nigeria

Today is the main day of the Osun festival in Osogbo, when the #Yoruba orisha and patroness of the city is honoured and the normally sleepy town is suddenly chock full of people, high chiefs, devotees and tourists alike, and the sound of talking drums. #Nigeria

UN rights chief Volker Turk says the violence resulted in ‘one of the largest documented death tolls’ despite a truce.

The air is slowly hissing out of the DRC-Rwanda peace deal. The West needs to increase pressure, and cutting multilateral aid to Rwanda - which worked in 2012 - would be one of the most effective tools it coud apply. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/w...

Relooted - or rather, taking back what's yours- a new video game in which "a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate heists to take back stolen artifacts from Western museums, and repatriate them to the peoples from whom they were taken." | via @artnews www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Nigeria heeft in Afrika de snelst groeiende markt voor de game-industrie. Met games en comics vol lokale referenties hopen Nigeriaanse studio’s hun stempel te drukken. „We hebben Afrikaanse superhelden nodig.”

August's dry spell in Lagos ends early this year. Or maybe it has shifted to July? Someone explain to me how rain can fall for 14 hours straight on August 4th, abeg.

The not so fancy version - still gourmet if you ask me - used to be my daily meal while staying in Jinja.

Minister visits Ghana, responds to ‘Nigeria must go’ protest https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/811017-minister-visits-ghana-responds-to-nigeria-must-go-protest.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Deep but fragile links: Nigerians drive $683M informal trade, $1B in education, yet disputes spark tensions. Can history repeat? 1969 expulsions, 2019 border closure. Fixes? Formalise trade, fight #FakeNews, boost diplomacy. #Ghana #Nigeria sbmintelligence.substack.com/p/nigeria-mu...

“Someone was always using the word, even maimed beggars that moved around with their hands in their footwear. The more we corrected them, reproved them, and sent their Oyibos back, the louder they’d get.” —“Oyibo” by Chinyere Evelyn Uku. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/oyibo/

In the past 27yrs, Nigeria’s healthcare budget has mostly been under 6%, and yet we hope that its healthcare problems will somehow be fixed. No amount of hope and prayers will save a country of 200+million people from the hands of 4-5% national budget for its health sector.

As former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s death is mourned with official reverence, a generation remembers the eight years that drove them out. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-...

Kenya’s largest-ever protests have drawn striking comparisons to the Mau Mau uprising. But for today’s movement to endure, it must move beyond the streets and invest in political education. africasacountry.com/2025/07/gen-...

With support from @gavi.org, @unicef.org, and @who.int, Nigeria is rolling out over one million doses of the #malaria vaccine to protect children as young as five months old. 📸 Photographer Jérôme Sessini captures the impact: www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... #EndMalaria

I do have a problem though with the description of women being (forcibly) married to Boko Haram fighters. There is no marriage of any kind, if you use those words you are buying into the narrative of the oppressor. This is rape, sexual enslavement and gender based violence. Language matters.

So close to power and Aso Rock...