Dr. Sylvia Bawa
@Essenbi
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Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, York University. Globalization and Development, Human Rights, Postcolonial feminisms
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A very sad day for human rights in Ghana. Where is the "forward ever" imagination? Where is the future thinking in passing this very retrogressive bill?
This law has dire implications for all of our rights and seeks to institutionalize hate.
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#AnthonyBourdain
succeeded in using food to speak about our shared humanity. I think he did a fine job of getting Americans to engage a bit more critically about the negative impact of their country's imperialism around the world. He humanised people through their food.
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Do we really need reference letters for Master's level applicants? Why do we need personal letters to endorse students' desire to progress in academia? What happens to those students who cannot get/struggle to get letters because they did not 'stand out' per se?
#AcademicTwitter
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I very much enjoyed this conversation with Prof. Sylvia Tamale about her book! Tamale's work on human rights has shaped my own work in the field.
African feminists have offered a sustained critique of colonialism, coloniality and retrogressive thought for many years.
“Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market” — An interview with Sylvia Tamale by
@Essenbi
and
@GracieAdeniyi
@EconGeo
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Incredibly proud of these young men for their courage. We need to stand up for our democracy
#DropThatChamber
#FreeErnesto
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We don't even make research findings accessible to the communities we research. A lot of research is invasive to vulnerable communities. Infact, sometimes we make them more vulnerable by exposing crucial survival techniques in very uncritical ways.
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I am deeply disappointed in this response from the
@ASRJournal
. Where is the journal's commitment to democratic principles of knowledge production and engagement? Where is its progressive engagement with praxis of decolonizing knowledge?
So
@ASRJournal
Editor-in-Chief
@Kwasidagbe
put padlock on his account after his tweet about the journal's response got ratioed on here.
#BoycottASA
Please read our letter & read their response
Our open letter is here:
Find the journal's letter below:
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Precisely...our peaceful, religious tolerance status has been because others have tolerated oppressiveness from the dominant Christian majority. People will be upset about you raising these issues because they have been fine with not washing dirty linen in public all this time.
Ghanaians believe that there is a lot of religious tolerance in the country. And this tolerance exists only because Muslims and people who practice other religions have subjected themselves to all sorts of shit from Ghanaian Christians.
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In this piece, Federer says what we've known for a while: Serena Williams is the Greatest, of all time. Maximum respect to an inspirational legend of all time, Serena Williams!
#serenawilliams
#BeingSerena
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I find it hard to believe that the journal missed the larger point of the petition. Where is the Solidarity? What does the journal understand as it's obligation not to do harm to communities that have suffered so much epistemic violence?
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Join this important conversation if you are at York. We hope this is the first of a sustained discussion about Africa in the post-colonial era.
@YorkUnews
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Ay, there is a tale of how one fufu-loving grandmama kept hitting the moon with her pestle whenever she was pounding fufu. So the moon kept moving further and further away. 😔😜
@neiltyson
When the Moon first formed, four billion years ago, it was 20x closer than it is today, 400x larger on the sky, and Tides were 8,000x higher.
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Humbled and stoked to be speaking at this year's Wole Soyinka Human Rights Lecture series!
I will be delivering the Wole Soyinka Human Rights Lecture this year.
Topic: “Human Rights & Solidarity in the Context of the Global Pandemic”
@Essenbi
and
@ChidiOdinkalu
will also be speaking!
You’re invited. Register:
Cc:
@WSoyinkaLecture
@NASPC1952
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The minimum should be 50%. Remember we make up more than half of the population. We are not begging. It is our right.
We will work towards the attainment of a minimum of 30% quota of appointments for women. Maternity Leave will now be 4 months. We are building a new Ghana, where every woman has a chance to fulfill her potential.
#NDCmanifesto
#JMandJane2020
#GhanaiansMatter
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We are collectively diminished by this action. I am not surprised but disheartened nonetheless! Shame!
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We need to learn to move beyond individual failings and hold the systems that prop up these failings to account. Academic journals, institutionalized gatekeeping practices, lack of diversity in journal editorial boards, a failure/refusal of global north institutions to engage 1/2
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'As black intellectuals in the academy, we have to remember that our presence in the academy was not accidental. People fought to create these spaces for us.' Powerful words from a preeminent intellectual in Canada-Prof. George Sefa Dei
@TubmanInstitute
@yorkuniversity
@OISEUofT
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@stikayden
Indeed, history matters. In the case of human rights, it is especially important to examine the colonial and socio-religious basis for this law. This law is a re-enactment of colonial policy, based on eurochristian ideals of morality. What is there to love about it?
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The Balme Library of the University of Ghana will always feel like home.
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You are special until you are not. You are always dispensable at the right time. Please keep a "Ghana must go" handy 😁
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Surround yourself with those who hold you accountable for excellence. This pandemic has shown us what innocuous 'allowances' of mediocrity have done and can do (in terms of leadership and collective responses).
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Start of another exciting conference at University of Ghana (CMS). Conference jointly organised by
@TubmanInstitute
of
@yorkuniversity
and Centre for Migration Studies
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Inspiring and fruitful convos with colleagues at Uni. for Development Studies (Wa Campus) on research collaborations, decolonization and social justice oriented action research. I am blown away by the incredible work these brilliant colleagues do with so little.
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See you tomorrow! I have never worked on anything as emotionally tasking as this project.
I am inspired, humbled, and in awe of those who bear witness to atrocities in hopes of a more peaceful and more just society.
“Truth Commission and State Building” will be launched at
@McMasterU
on Jan 25th (in-person & virtual). In our troubled & conflicted world, we should be talking more about truth & reconciliation in the aftermath of war & atrocities.
MQUP will be there selling the book at 30% off
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Dear students, I know. I am excited about the course too! The course syllabus is just not ready. It is still ☀️, relax.
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#COVID19
in Africa. Great line up of speakers! Join York University' African Studies Program for this important conversation! Thursday Nov. 26 12-2pm EST.
@YorkUnews
@SesaySesay18
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I am proud to announce the publication of our edited book, Truth Commissions and State Building, by
@McGillQueensUP
@giazilo
@abembia1
This book examines truth commissions' mandates, methods, outcomes and legacies and how they shape state-building processes
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This is power(ment). This is how you dispell disempowering tropes. This is how you inspire millions of people around the world to decolonize: you don't need anyone's authentication or invitation to live. You are a powerhouse
@Wiyaala
😘
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The larger issue is that none of the journalists in the media houses challenged these absurd absurdity of these claims. Not one person!
Soon, some Western NGO will build a whole sob-story around this ridiculousness. And on and around we go in sorry circles.
I went to the north and realized the girls use clay as a substitute for sanitary pads. - Etornam Sey laments
#3FMSunrise
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Lest we forget, Canada needs to strengthen laws to ensure that its businesses, especially in the extractive sectors, do not continue to violate human rights in African countries.
Talked to the Globe and Mail about PM
#Trudeau
's visit to
#Ethiopia
and
#Senegal
. I urged his team to stick to Canada's commitments to human rights, governance and gender equality while shopping for votes. /via
@globeandmail
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Gave a guest lecture to this engaging group (MPhil students) from Univ. Of Dev. Studies (Wa Campus) on Human Rights, Social Justice and Vulnerability. Critical convos on decolonization, same sex rights, disabilities and feminisms.
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Yes, I will take a freezie!
H. Tubman Institute and Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages cheering
#Congressh
attendees on! Super cool!!
@YorkUnews
Come to our round table at 3pm: decolonization ethics and field research in the academy!
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...stop doing the impossible for the ungrateful. Save your energy. Spend it wisely.
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Except we are not solving; we are creating a problem. So a problem to be solved.
The co-founder of CDD-Ghana, Prof. E. Gyimah-Boadi, has said that the anti-LGBTI+ bill is just trying to solve a problem that is non-existent
#CitiNewsroom
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Get those papers published! Join us tomorrow
Join us on Monday, January 22nd for another edition of the CAAS Professional Development Webinar.
Title: “From Manuscript to Publication”
Register for FREE -
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Ghanaian activists need to be reflexive. Understand and do class analyses.
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Incoming president of CAAS and newly elected member at large Dr. Uwafiokun Idemudia and
@NadegeCompaore
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Great end to a fantastic conference! We certainly need more conversations about transnational solidarity. Well done
@TubmanInstitute
of
@yorkuniversity
and Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.
#YearOfReturn
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Thank you
@wunpini_fm
!! It pleases me greatly that you and your class enjoyed it!
If you teach anything related to globalization, consider assigning Dr
@Essenbi
's A Global Sociological Imagination. I assigned it in my Media Analysis class yesterday and we had such a blast discussing it.
You can find it in the Reading Sociology book 👇🏿
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Big congrats
@wunpini_fm
and lucky
@Cornell
!! You are now close enough to honour Canadian invites in person :)!
Dasiba! I will be joining the Dept of Comm at
@Cornell
this fall as an assistant professor.
I am excited about this career transition and what it means for my scholarship.
It has been an honour teaching and learning from the wonderfully brilliant students at the Uni of Georgia.
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By far, student emails are the most exhausting part of the job. I would rather have an hour long in- person convo than write another email response to answer questions I have answered 100 times already.
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Absolutely. Sacrificing quality for awards is like building a rain-catching device when you need water for survival. You are legend
@Wiyaala
!
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I am so proud of
#FixTheCountry
and the youth for showing such great courage and leadership in the midst of unprecedented police brutality and lawlessness.
Where are the opposition parties?? Why are they not marching in Solidarity with the youth? Why are they so silent/absent?
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I am embarrassed about the state of journalism in Ghana. I am not surprised though. It was a group of journalists who initiate the citizens arrest of the human rights activists in Ho no? Sigh
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This podcast features the brilliant
@NadegeCompaore
discussing Canada's role in the Sahel Region (from Canadian mining companies to its peacekeeping mission). Refreshing insights and analysis!
What do Canada’s 250 troops contribute to the peacekeeping mission in Mali? What is behind Canada's interest in the region & how do mining companies factor in? A new episode of Canada and the World with
@NadegeCompaore
,
@Usmaan_Aali
&
@AbdiasisIssa
:
#cdnfp
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The brilliant Dr. Compaore speaking about "Home State Responsibility" in Africa's mining sector at CAAS 2019, Montreal
@NadegeCompaore
#aceacaas2019
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Academy: how dare you deviate from the script.
African creatives: We don't perform for the colonial gaze anymore
African male elite: not to worry, we shall reprise 'Out of Africa' for you, ps: secure our offshore accounts.
African Diaspora: "don't scare us like that colonizer"!
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Paper long over-due. Enjoy!
#africanfeminism
“Feminists make too much noise!”: generational differences and ambivalence in feminist development politics in Ghana
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@TownofWhitby
Please go back to the bargaining table and offer a fair deal to the workers. We remember their sacrifices during the pandemic.
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Congratulations
@obioraokaforc
!!!
Breaking News: Nigerian Professor,
@obioraokaforc
& Chair of Edward B. Burling in International Law
@SAISHopkins
has been elected as
@AJIL_andUnbound
Board member alongside other scholars. Congratulations!
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Please meet again, read the letter in the spirit of Solidarity and write again.
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100% parents want their children's teachers to earn a decent wage. We want these teachers not over worked and stressed. Their working conditions are our children's learning conditions. 100% It is about the children, right??
100% of parents want their children in class.
We will stand up to ensure all kids learn in-class without disruption, right to June.
Because it's about the kids, right??
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Hearty congratulations to you Wunpini!! Well deserved! Univ of Gorgia is lucky to have you! The work continues!
It's done.💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Starting fall 2020, I'll be joining
@UGAGrady
as Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries (tenure track) at the University of Georgia.
Thankful to my advisor, Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola &
@PSUBellisario
for all the support. 🖤🖤🖤
This IS my year! 🔥🔥🔥
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A light moment
@isanet
Accra 2019 with ISA co-chair
@AmandaCoffie
and eminent IR scholar
@tiekutom
at the just ended conference. Inspiring and encouraging panels and debates about decolonial and liberating research praxis
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@wunpini_fm
Great list/collection! Mine are, Drs.: (in Africa).
Akosua Darkwa
Akosua Ampofo
Wangari Maathai
Agnes Apusigah
Constance Akurugu
Sylvia Tamale
Isaac Dery
Jane Frances-Lobnibe
Francis Sanyare
Michael PK. Okyerefo
...
Etc
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I agree in principle with this reminder to hold world leaders accountable. What some African leaders forget is that they are LEADERs too. They sit on massive resources and sell their people out for exploitation by multinational corporations in various ways.
It is critical that the developed world makes good its long-delayed pledge to mobilise and make available $100bn annually to the poorer countries to assist in the fight against climate change, and commit, as agreed at COP 26 in Glasgow, to doubling resources for adaptation.
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Dear
@GhanaPresidency
,
@NAkufoAddo
, please intervene to protect LGBTQI people in Ghana.
#notinourname
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This is racist and shameful! Why host an International conference if you won't allow internationals in? We have been dealing with this issue at
@CAAS_ACEA
conferences for years. Tsk tsk
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I enjoyed
#congressh
tremendously! The Swag Corner addition from
@YorkUniversity
and innovative introduction of high school students from convenor,Andrea Davis were refreshingly brilliant.
@federation_hss
@gabrielbmiller
Now I can share some highlights
York University was buzzing last week from all the Congress 2023 excitement and events! It was an honour to host the largest academic gathering in Canada. Check out some of the highlights! |
#Congressh
#YorkUSDGs
@federation_hss
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Just doing what immigrants do everyday, taking away jobs from citizens. Sigh!
Mamoudou Gassama: Mali 'Spiderman' to be made French citizen - BBC News
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Great CAAS conference...excellent panels on intriguing and thought-provoking issues!
#aceacaas2019
@MTerretta
@AGATAVU
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Great and insightful conversations about the African Dream at our Pan-African round table event. Fantastic turn out!
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Congratulations
@Nathan_Andrews1
and
@jandrewgrant
!! More vim!!
Just when I thought the week couldn't get any better, I received this in the mail. An advance copy of the
#CSR
edited volume with
@jandrewgrant
and a lovely letter from the acquisitions editor
@utpress
😊 Such joy after almost three years on this project!
#academiclife
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Knowledge brings enlightenment. We have to educate our children for the future; for their future, not for our comfort. Education, not schooling, does that. It is ok to be uncomfortable. That is just because you were not educated for the times yet to come. Calm down and reflect.
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And we should begin to talk about feminisms (in the plural). Many people don't really know about and appreciate the history of the movement in Ghana. The success of the movement has always depended on varied and collective organising strategies all over the country.
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Some of the hardworking executive team
@MTerretta
,
@BelindaJDodson
and Miriam at the AGM
#aceacaas2019
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Reparations. The result of sustained activism.
US returns Benin Bronzes stolen by British colonial forces via
@AJEnglish
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@obaa_boni
@wunpini_fm
You may want to try women in various rural areas...or market spaces. I became a feminist from the examples of women in my father's village. I have merely followed the tradition of my ancestors.
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@adomakoampofo
It is the mandatory "visit the poorest of the poor in Africa" visit for celebs. But wait, she will tell us things we 'didn't know' and then solve poverty! It's a blessing really. Smh
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We cannot stand idle while people are persecuted because they are different. Attempts to suppress difference threatens our progress. In solidarity!
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
The state, religious institutions, the media & the public have harmed & perpetuated harm toward LGBT+ Ghanaians this month
You can support queer ppl by speaking up against queerphobia, donating, holding the govt & Prez
@NAkufoAddo
accountable
Donate here
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My people, please. What is this where you are replying to e-mails so quickly like they are text messages? Make tea, take your time. Think carefully about each word (LOL). Where are we all in a hurry to? I want to return to proper paper and pen letter writing days. GM
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Cameroonian Political Theorist Achille Mbembe Has Won the €100,000 Gerda Henkel Prize for Research
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Imagine the possibilities if we moved in such numbers to protest racism; in particular the continuing mistreatment of indigenous people.
#WeTheNorth
#RaptorsParade
Nathan Phillips Square is at capacity, no one else will be allowed on the Square. Watch the parade + rally on big screen at Coronation Park. Everyone onsite: please celebrate safely...
@TorontoPolice
want you to be able to enjoy the entire event!
#WeTheNorthDay
#WeTheNorth
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Dear
@AcademicsSay
Honestly, letters of recommendations for undergrads for MA programs?
For the last two years we have been teaching to black squares...some of whom sign in with cool nicknames.
We are radio DJs who laugh at our own jokes.
#removebarriers
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Agreed. Given Canada's poor record of human rights, especially with regards to indigenous people, I would really like to see domestic action to address human rights concerns in Canada.
Talked to the Globe and Mail about PM
#Trudeau
's visit to
#Ethiopia
and
#Senegal
. I urged his team to stick to Canada's commitments to human rights, governance and gender equality while shopping for votes. /via
@globeandmail
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Congratulations Dr. Mohammed!! Well done and well deserved!
I defended and passed my dissertation today.
I am now Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed. 👑
I'm so grateful to my advisor Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola & my committee for their guidance.
Thankful to
@PSUBellisario
for supporting my work every step of the way.
I AM A DOCTOR! 🎊🏆🎉
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Thanks for capturing the moment! It was truly wonderful to discuss (un)freedom, solidarity and liberation, and afrofuturism with these brilliant women!
Extra special to have done this on the same day a literary icon,
#AmaAtaAidoo
passed on. Not planned but Def a tribute of sorts
Excellent
@CAAS_ACEA
roundtable on liberation, revolution, and Afrofuturism with
@Essenbi
@GracieAdeniyi
, Nadège Compaoré, Molade Osibodu, Comfort Azubuko-Udah.
#BlackFutures
#solidarity
#WakandaForever
#Congressh
#CAAS2023
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Ghana's governing party prides itself in intellectualism. Everyday, they give us evidence that they don't even understand what that word means. And of course that they have no shame in their cluelessness. It is all so vexing!
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Join our panel
@obioraokaforc
,
@RoojinHabibi
ann
@SHarrisAli
Tommorow at 1pm to discuss
#VaccineEquity
and
#HumanRights
Register in link below.
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It is a mistake to think that Raptors fans just want a trophy. We are invested in the players and their lives. It is why we cheer year after year
@Raptors
.
#DeMarDeRozan
is why I am a raptors fan!
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Congratulations
@adomakoampofo
!! Excited to see and participate in agendas of decolonization in knowledge creation! Woot!
Congratulations to all the newly elected ASAA leaders - and our current board member
@adomakoampofo
as President!
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My department is hiring. Environmental sociology/sociology of health. Please share widely.
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And I have been waiting to publicly congratulate this very brilliant brain and debate companion (more than that but let's keep it dryly professional :))! Well deserved. About time
#BlackintheIvory
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Priorities, priorities...tsk tsk. For shame!
On Wednesday, 7th April 2021, I cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the "Ghana Award House" - a new administrative building for the Head of State Award Scheme.
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Congratulations Nathan!! More vim!! But please o, repost this fabulous news after this crazy election watch (speaking for a friend)! Also sign my copy now!! More vim!!!
A much-needed distraction today. Great to have in hand these hard copies of this 2021 book with
@piussiakwah
by
@Rout_PoliticsIR
@routledgebooks
🥳🥳🥳
#oilandgas
#Ghana
#ResourceCurse
#ExtractiveIndustry
See more details here:
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This is unacceptable.
@NAkufoAddo
Have you seen the state of the Tema Motorway? Hospitals turn patients away because they have no beds. What are all your "men" doing in their positions? Why a national Cathedral when we could have a centre of excellence in science and technology?
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@adomakoampofo
@victoria_okoye
@Udadisi
@mandlods
@madugian
@akosuaasamoabea
@Oparebea_
@TheJamaJack
@Honoluluskye
@intermediume
@reginafuller
@YatiNsoY3nfa
@franticcurls
@wunpini_fm
@nas009
@Africaishome
@HRHPrincessEOB
@Njokiwamai
@MataLope
@Noma_Masiko
@Rubyabenaofori
@niikotei
@ResidentFeminst
@kobbyagraham
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@vicensiashule
@Miss_Chachage
@EAAdare
@matsipa_mpho
Hahaha...i hear that. I have a dream of putting all of you in one room for a face off with the younger generation feminists!
#lifegoals
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Some of the best vegan dishes in the world!!
So my mum and I made tuubaani today.
Served with pounded roasted spicy sesame seeds or kukuli zim and caramelized onions and groundnut oil.
#Ghanaianfood
#NorthernGhana
#BlackoutEid
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