Boima Tucker
@chiefboima.bsky.social
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All kainna ting
https://africasacountry.com/author/boima-tucker
Injecting “Milwaukee Messi” into my veins.
www.foxsports.com/stories/socc...
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World Cup Roundup: 'Milwaukee Messi' Helps Bosnia & Herzegovina Stun Italy
Euphoria for Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Wisconsin-born hero. Despair for Italy. The top moments of Tuesday's World Cup qualifying action.
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/milwaukee-messi-world-cup-roundup-bosnia-herzegovina-stuns-italy
7 days ago
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David Storey
7 days ago
'The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry & nationalist aspiration...it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle' Boima Tucker on football's political contradictions and conflicting emotions
@chiefboima.bsky.social
@africasacountry.bsky.social
africasacountry.com/2026/06/what...
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What is the World Cup for?
The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry and nationalist aspiration. Almost a century later, it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/06/what-is-the-world-cup-for
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Got to writing, this time about football.
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7 days ago
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Part of an African filmmakers talk tomorrow in Brooklyn
www.moretotalkabout.com/event/diaspo...
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Level Forward's MORE TO TALK ABOUT: Events
Culture-shifting conversations at the intersection of arts, culture, action & impact.
https://www.moretotalkabout.com/event/diaspora-star-debuts
21 days ago
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Africa Is a Country
28 days ago
Catch 'After Oil' at the New York African Film Fest this upcoming May 24 at the
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
. Use code NYAFF2026 for $5 off of your ticket.
www.bam.org/film/2026/fi...
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Africa Is a Country
28 days ago
For our documentary 'After Oil,' we interviewed
@triofrancos.bsky.social
on the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty, and how it is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
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Fun fact: Sierra Leone were once Unofficial World Champions of Football
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unoffic...
29 days ago
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I have no idea why but La Macarena stays on repeat at playgrounds across Lima.
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about 1 month ago
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Sam Fan Thomas is still the best. That is all.
about 1 month ago
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Africa Is a Country
about 1 month ago
We are currently in production of our 2nd physical edition. The focus will be on the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup and its implications. We're launching it with a free salon at the Africa Center in New York on the eve of the tournament. Join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-...
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Africa Is a Country World Cup Salon
Africa Is a Country comes to New York to celebrate Africa at the World Cup and discuss the political fault lines of international football.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-a-country-world-cup-salon-tickets-1988581653256?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
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There's a North African/Levantine rhythm that reminds me of Nyabinghi.
about 1 month ago
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Rauw giving us some Afro Peruvian festejo for the World Cup
youtu.be/-o-38aZg6o0?...
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Rauw Alejandro - Dando Vueltas (Official Video)
YouTube video by Rauw Alejandro
https://youtu.be/-o-38aZg6o0?si=WLk2WoLL9jwnEB5Y
about 2 months ago
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Africa Is a Country
about 2 months ago
Our first full length documentary film "After Oil" will be premiering at the NY African Film Fest this May 24th at
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
. The film traces the politics of energy in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara.
africasacountry.com/after-oil
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I’m just now remembering that my first ever commissioned writing was about the transnational connections of Shakira’s World Cup song for South Africa.
2 months ago
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Benjamin Tausig
3 months ago
Modern suburban parents: if our child is going to play soccer, we want their team to have them on a serious professional track. Same parents: a BA in history is simply not practical
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The view from where I'm sitting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezl...
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Kabaka Pyramid & DJ Smo - Extreme (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Kabaka Pyramid Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezleigbpR0
3 months ago
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It’s kind of wild how often a journalist will write unprecedented for events mirrored in a history book I read the night before.
3 months ago
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Since no one asked, here's my Sinners take: It's a fine fun action fantasy movie that is technically accomplished and is able to raise some interesting questions in a context of a contemporary Hollywood studio system with a dearth of black perspectives at the highest levels of funding (as with BP).
3 months ago
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Eddie-in-Chief
3 months ago
#ReadABook
on the radio 📡
www.spectorbooks.com/book/ten-cit...
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Andy Scollick
3 months ago
Whether at home or abroad, many experts say, the war-induced shock to fossil fuel markets reinforces China’s energy policies. “The big takeaway,” Logan said, “is that this really vindicates a lot of China’s clean energy push.” (Inside Climate News)
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China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War - Inside Climate News
As countries scramble to secure oil, gas and fertilizer, China’s bets on clean energy and coal are cushioning its dependence on oil and gas imports.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13032026/china-clean-energy-coal-cushions-oil-dependence-iran-war/
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I just figured out that my favorite Wande Coal song was Fuji music.
3 months ago
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield
3 months ago
Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.
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Since being in Peru I feel like all I eat is Chocolate and Avocado.
3 months ago
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“AUMF type beat”
3 months ago
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RazĂŁo 100,000,003 que o Brasil Ă© mais grande
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqg...
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MC Orelha - Nao vai ter Copa (video clip oficial) Lançamento Oficial 2014 (SOUZA PRODUÇÕES)
YouTube video by FAVELA VENCEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqgJoBiC1o
3 months ago
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Is anyone writing an academic argument in favor of the platformization of information? A new literacy perhaps?
3 months ago
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I see Bruno been listening to SalSoul records
3 months ago
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How come I don’t hear everyone talking about Chronixx album?
4 months ago
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Dan Carkner
4 months ago
surely varied by region and social context, but from my little area I know well, there were a lot of Yiddish partisan songs as well as ones written by internees in Nazi ghettos, here's a well-known one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...
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"Zog nit keyn mol" | Yiddish Resistance Song
YouTube video by Txomin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5RvjRzAjgg
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Listening to the Regional Mexican station, a song about being undocumented comes on, and the polka/klezmer cadence got me wondering what resistance music was in WW2 Europe.
4 months ago
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Im thinking that post-Apocalyptic nostalgia might be the best label for our current cultural era (one which we’re only at the beginning of).
4 months ago
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Jamaican Airhorns are serious right now.
7 months ago
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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.
7 months ago
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A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!
7 months ago
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Africa Is a Country
7 months 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
8 months 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
8 months ago
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Africa Is a Country
12 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...
12 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.
12 months ago
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Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!
12 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.
12 months ago
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What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?
12 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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12 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.
12 months ago
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Saw there was a bloghouse book.
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago
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So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.
about 1 year 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.
about 1 year ago
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First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier
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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
about 1 year ago
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