A. Sène
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“Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests”
For
@republicjournal
I wrote on the function of conservation area-based climate actions in imperialism; and towards an African climate justice agenda predicated on our right to meaningful development.
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Technocratic climate solutions will be the death of us. They’re cutting 42000 Joshua Trees to put solar panels. Joshua Trees are important to a number of wildlife in the Mojave desert. The neoliberal carbon rhetoric manufactures biases towards certain tree species and ecosystems.
4,200 Joshua trees are scheduled to be removed are replaced by solar panels for the Aratina Solar Project near Boron, CA in June of this year. They will not be salvaged but funds based on the size of the tree will be placed in a mitigation bank.
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I want to know the ecological damage of the Israeli colossal death machine that rained over 25K tons of explosives on Gaza. And I want Western environmentalists who endless yap about offsets and decarbonization in their reductionist one-wordlist takes to sit with that sh*t.
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Love how in 1972 Walter Rodney, a pan-Africanist resoundingly called out wildlife conservation in Africa as imperialist economic expansion & in 1974 Huey Newton rebuked extractive activities on conservation lands. Long before political ecologists started writing on this in 2000s.
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We will never forget that Israel was a staunch supporter of the South African apartheid regime.
Israel accuses South Africa of being “complicit with Hamas’ campaign of Genocide against our people”- saying “We assure South Africa's leaders, history will judge you”.
Govt spox added that Israel will appear at ICJ where SA has filed a case accusing Israel of genocidal acts.
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That Prince Harry is the President of African Parks - which militarizes 15 million hectares of land in Africa - should tell you everything you need to know about wildlife conservation in Africa. Seriously.
President Kagame received Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, who visited Rwanda as part of his work as President of African Parks. The Government of Rwanda has agreements with African Parks to manage Akagera and Nyungwe National Parks.
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In full Solidarity with all the good people of Kenya 🇰🇪 uprising against their oppressive state and the austerity policies by the IMF. Enough is enough of the World Bank and IMF imposed agendas that continuously immiserate the majority of Africans! ✊🏿✊🏿
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Couldn’t be in Joburg and not pay homage to Mama Africa 🇿🇦🖤
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I love how my uncle’s wife, our beloved Yacine, graces us with her splendid colors on any ordinary day. She playfully indulges us with her light. I say “Yacine chérie will you pose for me.” She drops her pan and says “oui Aby chérie, bii yow la ko tude.” (this one is for you).
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That Kenyans are uprising against W. Ruto and his policies less than a month after he was praised by Biden and used like a slave to send Kenyan mercenaries to do the US military dirty work in Haiti should tell you everything about the kind of “liberal democracy” U.S. favors.
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Great piece on the political economic context of the wars in Sudan and Somalia. Goes to show that the so called “ethnic conflicts” in Africa are directly linked to the expansion of neocolonial capitalism and its devastating impacts on agrarian systems.
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I went to the African market. I tell the guy (form Cameroon) I’m looking for hot pepper. He asks, habanero. I said no, hot, hot pepper. He said, “oh I know what you want.”
Dude knows. Habanero doesn’t come close to this delicious devil of a pepper. If you know, you know.
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"Twitter is not the right forum to discuss 'complex' issues."
But you think that academic journals that are gate-kept by Western academics to drive the imperialist and neoliberal agenda in Africa is a better forum???
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The idea of private property, that is ownership of God given resources by a single entity or person who has 0 relationship to the land is one of the most destructive social constructs in the modern history of the world.
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“Mass abortions for Africa” as climate action. He calls it climate abortion. This shit is unreal.
Actually not surprising. We’ve been saying that the Malthusian camp of environmentalists are neo-Nazis. I don’t care how you present it.
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My piece on conservation in Africa.
“The violence and sheer pace and scale at which conservation in Africa absorbs Indigenous lands to be integrated into the global capitalist system for commodification has gone vastly uncriticized. Why is that?”
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I feel for African food historians who are subjected to this played out “debate.” To know the rich culinary history grounded in our traditional agricultural & ecological knowledge that transcends fictional colonial boundaries, and see UNESCO be the arbiter of that history. Yikes.
UNESCO has officially recognised Senegal as the origin of Jollof rice, settling a long-standing debate between West African nations Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.
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This is so enraging. But also these horrific reports on mainstream media never place them in the context of British, U.S., UN military imperialism that repeats these acts among other crimes in countries they continuously intervene in (like in Haiti and Congo!)
EXCLUSIVE: Kenyan women accuse British Army Training Unit (BATUK) soldiers of decades of rape, sexual violence and/or abandoning their children without consequences. They say they received no support from the UK & Kenyan governments.
"We call it British boys behaving badly"
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As an African, esp from the Sahel, I’m incredibly terrified by the spectacular and disproportionate barbaric actions by the West in Palestine under the name of terrorism. Their so called war on terror is global, and Africa has long been a battle ground.
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Just so everyone knows. This wildlife conservation organization that appropriates the African map and name, is NOT African. It’s a neocolonialist institution ran by three white men pushing colonial rhetoric to appropriate African lands under the banner of wildlife conservation.
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I’m overwhelmed with sadness. The multiple genocides. The violent repression against students protesting against genocide. The lack of moral clarity by far too many people around me. How they consent to this unconscionable racist imperialist order. This is all too much.
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Just shoot me now…
Liberia set to concede 10% of its territory to Emirati company for carbon credit production.
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Regardless of their position on military coups, I’m always irked by the African crop of self-identified intellectuals who die on the hill of liberal representative democracy w/t their condescending views towards Africans who have legitimate grievances against the establishment.
The normalization and dignifying of military takeovers must trouble our great continent. A major rollback to the democratic gains so far made.
@africa_amani
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The way the tourism complex in Africa restricts the identity and social relations of Africans to indulge the colonial gaze is truly suffocating. You are African so you must dance and sell your crafts for breadcrumbs to give the tourists a taste of ‘Africa’! This wretched life.
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Poor working class African women who are domestic workers in the capital cities of Africa are some of the most erased laborer in our collective libration imaginaries.
I really appreciate this piece on these women in
@republicjournal
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As many Kenyan connections I have, I need to learn Swahili. They have some of the most revolutionary/radical takes on this app and I know that spirit is intense when they drop some Swahili in their posts. I don’t even understand, but I be like: Damn, I felt that!🙌🏿. Phew.
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I cannot trust any conservationist who has been in the field for decades yet still not meaningfully engaging the questions of land rights and global economic structures that reproduce inequities, but claim to be concerned with biodiversity loss. I don’t think you should either.
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“Our blackness and womaness is not trustworthy if we allow ourselves to be conscripted into positions of power that maintain the oppressive status quo, if we support the occupation of Black neighborhoods by so called better trained police…
Professor Ruha Benjamin (
@ruha9
) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜
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There are Kora players who, I believe, straddle between two realms. The ancestral and the living. If you listen carefully to their mathematical fingers sliding through those 22 devine strings, they will carry you into the other realm
Ballaké Sissoko is one of them.
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Global white supremacy is consolidating as its hegemony is increasingly threatened.
BREAKING: The UK, Canada, Australia, Italy and Finland follow the lead of the US and announce suspension of funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency
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I teach qualitative research, and I confess that positionality statements are the bain of my existence. Students genuinely write them to challenge power dynamics in knowledge production, and I have to tell them that all they wrote is a check list of identities…
Our article "Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies" is now out in
@ISQ_Jrnl
@RabeaMKhan
and I explore the colonial epistemic roots of positionality statements and their racial functions👇
#OpenAccess
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Why are countless American students owed a visa-free movement to African nations to conduct exploitative research? You ignoramus.
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Had this book in my bag when the TSA agent (Black man) was searching through it. Then he saw the book, pulled it out, looked at me and said “you’re alright sister.” Then gave me a fist bump. Love.
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Africans parks militarizes and privatizes 20 million hectares of stolen land in Africa.
African Parks was founded in 2000 to effectively manage Africa’s protected areas. With 22 parks in 12 countries under management, our footprint has scaled from just 70,000 hectares in 2003 to over 20 million today, thanks to our partners and you, our incredible supporters.
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There are so many Americans and Europeans who live in the Global South for better living standards by way of imperialism. They call themselves expatriates, amenity migrants or second-home owners. I need to see the stats on that.
Mexico deporting Americans that are illegally living in Mexico back to America. Many say they are in Mexico because they can’t afford living in America!
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This is a terrifying but important necessary read on water privatization in Africa backed by imperialist institutions. By
@MainlandAfrica
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I love how African riverine communities, especially fisherfolks, don’t give af about colonial borders. I learned that from my research site close to the Senegal/Mauritania border. Nobody decolonizes borders better than transboundary transboundary riverine folks.
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A delightful visit from a friend. Made a Kora for my Tumani (which he’s playing in the video), and blessed us with a concert 🖤
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My latest on the issue of Western model of conservation in Africa and it’s assault on indigenous rights and land.
Protected areas based conservation are disastrous for Indigenous People.
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Being African in conservation sharing my work to a mostly white audience revealed that many stand on their flaky morals of saving wildlife to cover the stanch of their anti-Black racism. So I don’t g.a.f about “educating” those ones. I write for Africans first, then the others.
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This is not complicity or support for Israel as an ally. This is literally US imperialism. Israel is a modality of US imperialism in the region.
After vetoing a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza for the 4th time, the US Ambassador to the UN says the US "will continue to actively engage in the hard work of direct diplomacy on the ground until we reach a Final Solution.”
Nearly 30,000 Palestinians have been killed
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Trophy hunting apologists in Africa who use the “sustainable use” excuse never push for Africans to exercise their legitimate rights to hunt wildlife on their lands. Instead it’s about the right to choose that a white man can hunt on African lands in exchange for meager income.
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Many Africans including Haitians are intimately familiar with how inept the UN is in the face of atrocities. But to watch live its uselessness amid global popular mobilization against the genocide is something. The entire world is asking to stop it and all they can do is tweet.
Independent human rights experts:
“We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.
The time for action is now.
Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action.”
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I can’t be the only African environmentalist who cringes at Nakate endless pleas to the (non-existent) collective morality of empire. Right?
Maybe I’m just too cynical. But this is getting tiring and I’m afraid it places our energy and aspiration in the wrong place.
636 fossil fuel lobbyists are roaming around
#COP27
They, and the leaders that are beholden to them, are trying to suffocate 1.5C target, quietly and slowly until it’s too late.
Today I spoke to G20 Energy Ministers, who must end this “moral and economic madness.”
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I always think about how white female primatologist are propped up to be the voices of African wildlife conservation, and African hunters are overly and grotesquely represented as ruthless poachers. The contrast is stark. The image of white femininity vs the savage African.
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It’s a special day. There are very few African women in wildlife conservation research, especially those who understand the stakes and ownership of local communities. We finally have one more. Introducing Dr. Ingrid Nyonza, my Ugandan sister!
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Looking at the profile of 🇸🇳 Senegal new minister of Economy, and thinking how so many economic policy makers in Africa have deep ties to IMF and World Bank. Shows how those institutions have a firm grip on the economic thought and policy making on the continent. It’s terrifying.
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trying to wrap my head around the enormity of this. No language is appropriate to describe this moment. How did we allow a world where a rogue gov dismisses UN calls, cuts off water, food, electricity, medicine, all communication to rain bombs on 2.5 million people with impunity?
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This is how the Naar fisherfolks of the Senegal River Delta be stomping. You wonder why I always miss this place.
This is a wedding in my host family at my research site, Djoudj National Park (yes they were violently evicted to establish the park). Posted w/t permission.
🙌🏿🇸🇳
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Knowing that agrarian people in the Global South, especially Africans are presently living in the vortex of the ecological crisis, and seeing liberal environmentalism tropes like this. Environmentalism is a trendy accessory to rich folks.
Angelina Jolie is working with UNESCO and Guerlain on a Women for Bees initiative that will ultimately build 2,500 bee hives and restock 125 million bees by 2025—while training and supporting 50 women beekeepers in their own operations
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This is why Black radical/anti-imperialist/colonial thought is imperative for Africans globally. Almost embarrassing to admit that, from my disciplinary training in conservation social sciences, I’m just now fully grasping with this fact.
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All I said to my Dad was “I may be going to Livingston in Zambia”….
He replies: “… I never use the colonial names of African known sites … I always check with the local people who own the land and … the site … I have been very consistant on that”
I rattled my old man 🤣
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Fascinating how people quickly throw the narrative of Chinese debt trap to Africans. Ignoring that the bulk of our predatory foreign debt is imposed by Western governments and corporations who use it to systematically exploit African nations.
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In other news, the crepe myrtles on campus have blossomed and they beautifully match my top 🌺💐
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When I think about how long evil white supremacist cult leaders and politicians get to live in their 90s. Yet pan-Africanist and Indigenous revolutionary leaders are murdered in their 20s and 30s. Truly, fuck this racial colonial world we live in.
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Burkina ministry of education has institutionalized Dan Fani, a traditional cloth, as official school uniforms. As much cotton as Burkina produces, and the cultural, (local) economic significance of Dan Fani, there was never any good reason it wasn’t the official school uniforms.
#BurkinaFaso
| Le pagne traditionnel "Faso Dan Fani" vient d'être institutionnalisé comme tenue scolaire. La mise en œuvre de cette mesure, selon le ministre de l´Éducation se fera de manière progressive, flexible et non contraignante sur une période de quatre années scolaires.
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This is a ladies sou-sou gathering (called naat in Senegal). The woman dancing received her share today.
I’m visiting the folks in the village where I did my ethnographic research outside of Djoudj National Park in the north of Senegal not far from Mauritania.
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People who defend militarized wildlife conservation in Africa and Asia, including shoot to kill policies, under the false pretext that there is no alternative always fail to answer one question:
Has militarized conservation resulted in increased wildlife population overtime?
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I befriended a Kora craftsman in Senegal. Yesterday he surprised my parents at their home with a Kora gift and a concerto. I wasn’t there but my heart heart was full. What a magical sound🖤🖤
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My piece in
@republicjournal
The British Royals recently reiterated their commitment to saving African wildlife. Here I discuss how the West and state allies continues to weaponize wildlife to dispossess, deprive and murder indigenous and local people for capitalist expansion.
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Sadly, the loss of our traditional knowledge is also linked to ecological degradation. There is empirical evidence on the ecological function of such knowledge systems. Sacred forests, mangroves and rivers that are sites of initiations are the original conservation areas.
Our indigenous religions contain so much of our ancestral knowledge systems. When we lose these religions we also lose centuries of accumulated knowledge about physical, physiological, and social healing practices. Sigh.
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Since my favs are doing this.
Here is to 41!
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Every country I’ve been to in Africa, there is an invasive species transforming river ecologies. From Senegal to Zambia. And each time, it’s linked to either tourists or white settlers. Obliterating entire generations of livelihoods.
We don’t talk enough, nor w/t enough rage, about the many times white settlers brought invasive species (for their whim) and f** up entire ecosystems in Africa, obliterating generations & generations of livelihoods. We talk about it like it’s just another sad event.
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The dispossession and violence to *allegedly* protect nature never stopped since the colonial era…to neocolonialism.
Karani Olengaiseri Narrative of historical land injustices
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In other words, Western capital is not happy with Senegal’s popular presidential choice.
Senegal: 44-year-old Faye vs ruling party’s Ba
Bloomberg says Ba “is clear favorite among investors”. Why? Faye has “pledged to review deals” with big Western firms & end France’s "stranglehold".
Fund manager says: “Faye would be very bad…for investment”. Seems voters disagree
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Africans ought to pay attention to the plight of the Maasai in light of the 30x30 global plans to set aside land for “conservation” The Maasai people have fought every fiber of their being to resist Western models of conservation in Africa.
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The fact that reporters continue to dismiss these calls for sovereignty from neocolonial powers across West Africa as “anti-French” or “Russian influence” is utterly ridiculous, and I’m glad Guillaume Soto-Mayor pushed back.
Senegal's 🇸🇳 Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has raised the possibility of closing French 🇫🇷 military bases in the country telling France “we must question the reasons why the French army for example still benefits from several military bases in our country and the impact of this
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For Africans fighting against trophy hunting is not only a fight to save wildlife. It’s also a fight against the colonization of their lands by the elite and capitalists who are aided by the African political class. Africans across the continent have been dispossessed for TH.
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I came to my maternal family compound to visit my aunties so they can spoil me rotten. This one is the youngest and wittiest of all my mother’s sisters. All I do around her is eat, gossip and endless listen to her life advice. I cannot imagine my grandmother’s home without her💜
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The arrogance of Western Africa “experts” to use words like irrational to describe Africans regardless of the ensuing arguments is truly outstanding yet unsurprising. Then to give moral lessons of humility speaks volumes of their inability for introspection. How dare you?!
1. It's irrational for a Nigerien to think that toppling Bazoum and ousting the French is in their country's best interest.
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Folks wondering if this Senegal or Mauritania. They’re the same people. This community is in the transboundary biosphere reserve. They’re freshwater fisherfolks who don’t give a hoot about colonial borders. They catch fish in Senegal and eat lunch in Mauritania and vice versa.
This is how the Naar fisherfolks of the Senegal River Delta be stomping. You wonder why I always miss this place.
This is a wedding in my host family at my research site, Djoudj National Park (yes they were violently evicted to establish the park). Posted w/t permission.
🙌🏿🇸🇳
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Oh no! Maryse Condé transitioned. She was one of the greatest anti-colonial Caribbean Francophone novelist. May the ancestors welcome her 🕊️🙏🏿
⚫ Mort de l'écrivaine Maryse Condé à 90 ans : retour sur sa vie sans fards
👉 Elle a rendu son dernier souffle dans la nuit de lundi 1er au mardi 2 avril. La 1ère revient sur la vie de l’écrivaine guadeloupéenne la plus célèbre de sa génération
📱💻
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The Western media is so ready to present a White country as more civilized than Black and Brown ones, that they blatantly skip South Africa to label France as the first country to make abortion a constitutional right.
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Labeling a people’s land-based knowledge as “locals’ perception” is epistemic violence. Environmentalist/conservationists working in Africa love them some ‘local perceptions.’
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From carbon emissions to land-based resources obliteration over the course of one month. All of it. If by that now you can’t understand that the ecological/climate crisis is a fundamentally caused by the gross unequal global political and economic structures…
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Wildlife conservation in Africa has always been a major ally in these three geopolitical dynamics: Imperialism, Capitalism and Global Security. Today it sustains the military industrial complex and the global expansion of neoliberal capitalism. Saving wildlife is just the surface
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The book is here! Thank you
@LongoFiore
@Survival
@AshleyDawsonNYC
@CommonNotions
and all contributing authors for putting together this powerful and important book on
#DecolonizeConservation
!!
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I think what’s most terrifying to the political class & university administrations working overtime to suppress campus protests, is how the students are making clear connections between the Palestinian cause and that of the most vulnerable and exploited masses in the U.S.
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Academic articles on livestock and wildlife mngt in Africa r still influenced by anti-indigenous tragedy of the commons theory screaming overgrazing. Overgrazing is an issue, but do conservationists ever stop and think that localized resource use are driven by global capitalism?
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The resurgence of debates on whether knowledge (in natural and social sciences) in educational spaces is or isn’t political is precisely why I spend the first 3 sessions of my qual research methods class on the regimes of knowledge production and the political history of science.
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Time to remind folks of the racialized & gendered structural violence tourism reproduces at all levels of society. African women who labor to cater for tourists, including African tourists, face that violence everyday. Poor Africans face that violence daily. Also in the Caribbean
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Beyond Germany it applies to the West esp UK, Canada, US & Australia who are yet to fully atone for genocides they committed against Indigenous peoples but have the f*g audacity to set the standards of what is or isn’t genocide when the global south collectively pushes back.
Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza
On Namibian soil,
#Germany
committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most
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I appreciate the point that Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by env conflicts. But claiming they represent only 6.2% of the world population is troubling. Brings up questions about how/who defines indigeneity at a time of imperialist exp spurring land conflicts.
Indigenous people comprise 6.2% of the world population, but they are negatively affected in 34% of documented environmental conflicts due to industrial-extractive expansion.
Research in Science, by my colleagues at
@ICTA_UAB
:
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Yep. Carbon offsets basics: Ignore poor Africans’ material needs. Eliminate their life-centered agrarian systems that sustain ecosystems. Turn their lands into carbon waste sinks for the life-sucking economic growth of the imperialist core while Africa’s development is deferred.
Carbon credits and carbon offset policies are just anti-Black, they are anti-poor.
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We need a whole new world. Because how the hell do we allow one country to override all other countries’s request to deliver food and medicine to 2.5 million people living under a state of bombardement and utter deprivation. Just how?!! This is so enraging!!
US vetoes Security Council resolution that would have called for “humanitarian pauses” to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza
Favor: 12 (Albania, Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland,UAE)
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 2 Russia, UK
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The speed at which carbon and biodiversity offsets projects are proliferating in Africa when there is ample evidence that these are the latest outrageous death making capitalist schemes to further consolidate wealth and control over resources in the hands of the elite!!!🤯
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I’m no expert in Senegal 🇸🇳 national politics/geopolitics, but something needs to be said about the simple framing of the current events as “the unraveling of the beacon of democracy/political stability in the Sahel.” coming from the West.
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I know all imperialists are dangerous f*ckers. But I swear Macron is a special brand of f*cker.
Macron au Congo : Vous êtes des incapables, vous avez tout raté.
Laissez nous faire.
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It’s revolting! I wrote about this a bit in m Foreign Policy.
The greatest injustice was the Kenyan government restricting pastoralism & encouraging pastoralists to trade their cattle for small businesses selling trinkets to tourists.
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The 4 most powerful conservation NGOs have a combined total assets far greater than the annual GDP of 20 African countries. Together they control the global environmental agenda mostly designed to ultimately accumulate capital for themselves. By
@jamesjwan
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The commodification of African cultural performance bundled in national parks visit packages today is no different than the colonial recasting of African society and landscape of the early 20th c. Even the seemingly innocuous services of African guides to find megafaunas in parks
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Planning a workshop in Botswana to bring in more African students. We’re here discussing visa needs for African students while US ones don’t have that worry. Africans needing visas to travel in Africa, when U.S. & others don’t need one is a Nth reason why this world order is 🗑️
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Autocorrect insistently overriding African names and words with European language is epistemic violence. It irks me to no end. Just had to let it out.
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There’s a palpable condescension Western journalists reserve for non-western guests. They wouldn’t even disrespect their most hated western politician that way. She’s behaving as if he’s irrational and not a human with knowledgeable & integrity, who is well above her pay grade.
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The link between Trophy Hunters in Africa and White nationalists in the US runs deep, deep.
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