Boima Tucker
@chiefboima.bsky.social
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All kainna ting
https://africasacountry.com/author/boima-tucker
The development of technology (under capitalism) just feels like a long sequence of inventing ways to have enough time to do what you actually want to do.
5 days ago
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A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!
7 days ago
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Africa Is a Country
13 days ago
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful. Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall. Congrats, Mayor
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
! 🌹
africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
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Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
https://africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti-and-roses
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San Francisco staves off Ice invasion while federal police amass in the East Bay?
africasacountry.com/2021/03/what...
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What is whiteness to a cyborg?
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
https://africasacountry.com/2021/03/what-is-whiteness-to-a-cyborg
25 days ago
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My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere
www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...
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Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent - Hay Festival
Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laura-g-de-rivera-farid-kahhat-susan-neiman-and-boima-tucker-in-conversation-with-eduardo-dargent.aspx
27 days ago
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
5 months ago
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
africasacountry.com/2025/06/when...
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When the crowds go home
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
https://africasacountry.com/2025/06/when-the-crowds-go-home
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We’re live in Nairobi
radio.calotropis.xyz/static/uploa...
5 months ago
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I really can’t imagine what experiencing a world war was like when your only updates came once a day from newspapers, radio broadcasts, or the previews before a Charlie Chaplin film.
5 months ago
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Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!
5 months ago
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Booked a window seat so I could stare out at the Amazon, only to realize that a RAINforest isn’t that interesting from 30,000 ft.
5 months ago
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What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?
5 months ago
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Changed paper towel dispenser backstage so Ben Harper could dry his hands. He nodded at me while dripping water into the sink.
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5 months ago
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I was now years old when I found out Flag Day was a thing in the US, and last week's years old when I found out celebrating a national flag (in this case Peru) was even a thing.
5 months ago
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Saw there was a bloghouse book.
5 months ago
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That they tagged up the federal building with anti-ICE graffiti that just happens to be next to MOCA is brilliant.
5 months ago
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So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.
5 months ago
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It’s amazing how useless the Internet has become if you’re not actually logged into anything that’s spying on you.
5 months ago
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First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier
youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?...
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Los 'runners' de Lima que salen a correr en plena madrugada de frĂo: Esto fue lo que respondieron
YouTube video by Latina Noticias
https://youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?feature=shared
6 months ago
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
6 months ago
africasacountry.com/festival
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
6 months ago
Tomorrow, May 25 Africa Is a Country will host its last co-presentation at the 32nd NY African Film Fest: the premiere of "When I Say Africa." With Sean Jacobs as executive producer and
@chiefboima.bsky.social
as music supervisor, Africa Is a Country is extra proud to present this film.
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
6 months ago
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.
africasacountry.com/2025/05/afro...
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Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/afropolitans-and-the-fantasy-of-a-digital-nation
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Howard French
6 months ago
This looks fantastic, and it premieres at the New York African Film Festival on May 24 (at BAM).
whenisayafrica.com
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When I say Africa
cargo.site
https://whenisayafrica.com/
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I think Benito made me realize that I’m finally at a point removed from the business of music that I can be a fan of music again.
7 months ago
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Work has recently led me to believe that Gen-Z are marketing geniuses, but sometimes you get the feeling that systems are forcing them perfect their craft in that alone.
8 months ago
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
9 months ago
The Fanti Carnival transforms Lagos’s Brazilian Quarters into a vibrant celebration of history, culture, and Afro-Brazilian identity. A beautiful photo essay from Kelechi Anabaraonye:
africasacountry.com/2025/03/an-a...
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An Afro-Brazilian Christmas in Lagos
The Fanti Carnival transforms Lagos’s Brazilian Quarters into a vibrant celebration of history, culture, and Afro-Brazilian identity.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/an-afro-brazilian-christmas-in-lagos
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Jeff Weiss
10 months ago
RIP Bob Uecker. A hall of fame broadcaster, sitcom dad, and the man behind the greatest book title/tagline in history
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A little sprinkle of hyphy and daggering
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Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDn9D7WNeon/?igsh=bXFwbHFodDV4eWsz
11 months ago
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Why did it take me this long to realize there was an Old Hampshire?
11 months ago
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Had no idea Neneh Cherry was Sierra Leonean…
12 months ago
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Boima Tucker
Africa Is a Country
about 1 year ago
One week ago, the AIAC Facebook page was suspended for violating “community standards.” While we try and figure that out, read the following interview about the de-platforming of "African Stream," exemplifying the new landscape for digital publishing.
africasacountry.com/2024/11/when...
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When you get under Antony Blinken’s skin
On the deplatforming of 'African Stream.'
https://africasacountry.com/2024/11/when-you-get-under-blinkens-skin
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Not like us
africasacountry.com/2024/05/bewa...
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Beware of false prophets
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
https://africasacountry.com/2024/05/beware-of-false-prophets
about 1 year ago
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My marketing class: Influencer marketing is the fastest growing segment of advertising. Me: We used to call that selling out.
about 1 year ago
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Well, considering that the whole white people take over the world thing started because the Portuguese wanted some pepper…
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about 1 year ago
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Current status:
about 1 year ago
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Can we normalize cyborg discourse instead of AI?
over 1 year ago
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Interview I did with Nelson Freitas is now live on Rhythm Lab’s Mixcloud, includes a free ticket to Cabo Verde:
www.mixcloud.com/rhythmlab/rl...
over 1 year ago
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I did a thing on Cote d’Ivoire for Radio Milwaukee
www.mixcloud.com/rhythmlab/rl...
over 1 year ago
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If there’s something that American media taught me it’s that it doesn’t matter what you’re saying as long as you make it look cool.
over 1 year ago
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Example:
x.com/bigmeaninter...
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almost 2 years ago
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I feel like perhaps Andre Bazin’s writing on film is an underappreciated frame through which to understand AI.
almost 2 years ago
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I’ve been to Carnival many times but I was 40 before I realized in my hometown people just eat jelly doughnuts.
almost 2 years ago
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My yearly reminder from VOD services that it’s time for black history.
almost 2 years ago
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Work break:
africasacountry.com/2023/12/on-s...
almost 2 years ago
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Discourse on Colonialism …
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almost 2 years ago
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Why do beat cops waddle like they just got off a horse in a dusty western town?
almost 2 years ago
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Just learned the meaning of Sahel in Arabic is “easy” and that Sahara is “desert” and my mind is blown.
almost 2 years ago
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When normal life is interrupted it really exposes the bots who are tasked to run things.
about 2 years ago
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X is fully becoming a dark web spam bot site.
about 2 years ago
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I’m no macroeconomist, but it certainly seems funny that more people with jobs = bad for the market…
about 2 years ago
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It’s time to just play Amapiano at house speed again.
about 2 years ago
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