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Howard W. French’s "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War", is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions https://t.co/tPGVK1fBJG

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A Central Bank of Kenya governor for eight years between 2007 and 2015, Njuguna Ndung'u is also an accomplished researcher and a University of Nairobi academic https://t.co/3BVsF0C35h

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Toyin Falola: 3 recent books that explain the work of Nigeria's famous decolonial scholar https://t.co/IzsLHXDTe0

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Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the revolution https://t.co/CTIMnTMXrW

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Wake Up, This is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and urban planner and writer @tanya_zack. Striking images and beautiful texts follow 10 stories the team discovered in urban Johannesburg https://t.co/jn9QZ7dY9L

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Published in 2011, her investigative research titled Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa made history. https://t.co/kPWVeri4us

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Franz Fanon, the Martiniquan born psychiatrist, committed Algerian revolutionary and Pan-African thinker, died 60 years ago on December 6, 1961 just after the publication of his last book, The Wretched of the Earth https://bit.ly/32WH7rQ

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Elesin Oba, the King’s Horseman is a new movie coming to Netflix. It is based on Nigeria’s most famous play, Death and the King’s Horseman, written in 1975 by Nobel Prize-winning author, activist and academic Wole Soyinka. https://t.co/gkLRxiptm7

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#BookerPrize2022 Bulawayo’s celebrated first novel, We Need New Names, was a coming-of-age story about the escapades of a Zimbabwean girl named Darling who ends up living in America. https://t.co/WCqL2hJtdm

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The UN envoy to Western Sahara met on Saturday with Polisario Front in Algeria. @MundyProf Jacob Mundy Unpacks the power plays over Western Sahara, in this article. https://t.co/LWBubBWSBg