Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social PhD, political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns 🤘🏻, & other stuff.
I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking!
(she/her)
Africa Elects @africaelects.bsky.social Poll aggregation and election analysis in Africa.
Partner of America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania Elects.
kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
Editor, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social
Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
Yassmin Abdel-Magied @yassmin.bsky.social screenwriter + novelist
newsletter yassmin.substack.com. @yassmin_a on most other socials
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
The Continent @thecontinent.org The Continent is Africa's most widely read newspaper. Get the most recent edition delivered for free on:
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
CABES @cabes.bsky.social Capacities on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Africa to promote engagement in IPBES @ipbes.net.
Funded by @iki-germany.bsky.social
Website: http://www.cabes.online
E-learning: https://elearning.cabes.online
Other: https://linktr.ee/cabes.iki
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Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
Charlie Robertson @frontiercharlie.bsky.social Frontier / emerging market obsessive, author The Time Travelling Economist which explains what Marx missed and when countries escape poverty from 1670 to 2070
Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa.
More on https://duncan.money
Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org Co-founder LabEight Ventures. Founding Partner @AugustaFund. Hokie. Daje Roma. Guardian of Nala & Moose. Immersed in water. Moving through with @courts112.
(he/him)
C4ADS @c4ads.org We're a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. RT ≠ endorsement. Learn more at https://c4ads.org/.
Michael Kevane @mkevane.com Economics professor, Santa Clara University. Political economy of Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Puerto Rico, university governance, and housing issues in San José, CA. Posts here are strictly personal opinion. Also, libraries and reading: www.favl.org
Kennedy Wandera @kennedywandera.bsky.social
International Broadcaster. Board Chair, The Foreign Press Association, Africa.
Postgraduate, University of Leeds, UK🇬🇧
https://www.voanews.com/author/kennedy-wandera/jtjvt
George Kwaku Ofosu @gofosu.bsky.social Assistant Professor LSE Government. Research: electoral politics, political accountability, democracy, African politics
Nathaniel Powell @natkpowell.bsky.social Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR | 
John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social Prof African History MSU
White Gold: https://tinyurl.com/ymt64kfz
Dreams for Lesotho: http://undpress.nd.edu/9780
Publications here: https://tinyurl.com/ynvwp6c5
MSU FS Chair 2026-27
Lesotho, development, borders, running, Michigan
Views my own
Josef Woldense @woldense.bsky.social josefwoldense.com
Kiri @kirir.bsky.social Journalist
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Ufahamu Africa @ufahamuafrica.bsky.social A podcast about life and politics on the African continent.
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Tom Bowker @tombowk.bsky.social Co-founder and managing director of Zitamar News, www.zitamar.com
Follow Zitamar here too: https://bsky.app/profile/zitamar.bsky.social
Brit abroad since 2014. Currently living in The Hague.
Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.
Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives.
Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
AfricTivistes @africtivistes.bsky.social Ligue des Blogueurs et Cyber-Activistes Africains pour la Démocratie. #CivicTech #GouvTech #OpenGov #Tech4Change
africtivistes.com
🇺🇬 TMS RUGE 🇺🇦 @tmsruge.bsky.social Founder/CEO: @RT_farms; Creator: @qwezibeauty; Cofounder: @hivecolab; Educated (sometimes) Angry African 😜
Nanjira @nanjira.bsky.social A dark cloud in a blue sky. www.nanjira.com
@codeforafrica.bsky.social @codeforafrica.bsky.social Africa's largest network of #CivicTech and #OpenData labs.
John Dell'Osso @johndellosso.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on corruption, money laundering and other forms of skulduggery. Game designer and founder, @investigativesimulations.org. Semi-random thoughts on transportation, bikes and music.
Belgian Congo 🇧🇪🇨🇩 @belgiancongo.bsky.social Historical content From #Belgium, #Congo, the #BelgianCongo, #CongoFreeState, #RuandaUrundi and King Leopold II of Belgium!
Justin Lynch @justinlynch.bsky.social Managing Director, Conflict Insights Group, a public benefit analytics and research firm. co-author Sudan's Unfinished Democracy http://tinyurl.com/4mfzbe3n. views my own.
Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social Publisher and co-founder, The Continent newspaper - A quality weekly African paper straight to your device. 
Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social Newspaper person. Co-founder @thecontinent.org and The Atlas (theatlasnewspaper.org)
Ahmed Elaffendi🇸🇩🐆🇧🇦 @affendino.bsky.social Freelancing Business Analyst, Graphic Designer | Technologist
📩 DM for commissions and work
🌐🔗 https://linktr.ee/ahmed_elaffendi
🚨(Personal Account, Opinions are mine alone)
Roman Deckert @romandeckert.bsky.social Sudan|ese & SouthSudan|ese @❤️ since 1997, #Utopia #HighFidelity. #MediaDev @ MiCT. #Wikipedia 4☮️. Based in Versoix, Geneva.
John Mburu @mburujngugi.bsky.social Current PhD student @ Kenyatta University. Chairperson: Econometrics Association of Kenya. Alumni @IDinsight. Member of Economic Commission of Africa - Young Economist Network
Website: https://mburu.netlify.app/
dámiláre @tarykuh.bsky.social africa reporter @restofworld.org
Kelznebo @kelznebo.bsky.social <harmless/>
Your reliable contractor ,home improvement,Accountant,
Virtual BOOKEEPING
Www.kelznebo.com
Getachew Assefa @getachew.bsky.social Professor of Sustainable Design, Sustainability Consultant, EDIA Director at SAPL, UMD Media Founder and CEO
Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com Storyteller.
📚 @hararereview.com
linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks
#Afrisky #Zimsky
💜 #Obsidianmd and 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe feed links in pinned thread.
Lindah Mbaisi @lindahmbaisi.bsky.social Mandela Washington Fellow 2023 🇰🇪🇺🇸| Global Citizen| Comms Mentor| Public Relations| Comms | Policy | Founder @HansJPR1 | Comms Lead CGA | #SDGs 2, 13 & 15
Mwanzo TV @mwanzotv.bsky.social The Official Feed of Premier News Source with Top Stories and Special Features about East African Region.
Uncensored & Undaunted.
FactSpace West Africa @factspacewa.bsky.social Fact-checking organisation fighting bad information, guided by IFCN code of principles.
Mohammed Yusuf @moyusef.bsky.social Journalist with Voice of America. 
Amadou Sall @amadousall.com Frontend Engineer from Senegal 🇸🇳.
Google Developer Expert in Angular.
International Speaker/Technical Writer.
Ibuka Ndjoli 🇸🇳🇿🇦🇨🇩 @ibuka.bsky.social Author & Entrepreneur 🇨🇩🇿🇦 | Building tekkistudio.com a Brand Factory in Dakar 🇸🇳 | We create innovative product brands to tackle niches problems in Africa 🌍 | AI & Ecommerce enthusiast
David F.K. Mpanga @dfkm1970.bsky.social Native. Son. Brother. Husband. Father. Friend. Lawyer. Anti-clockwise thinker.
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Daniel Yacob @ethiopic.bsky.social Typer of the keys.
Also: https://vt.academia.edu/DanielYacob , https://typo.social/@ethiopic , https://x.com/ethiopic
Oumar FALL @oumarfall.bsky.social Dad, Geek, Swing dancer. #Senegal 🇸🇳 #kebetu
Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, eyes on the Horn of Africa. Migration, human rights, OSINT.
https://www.aljazeera.com/author/zecharias-zelalem
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History.
“Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
Nigeria Stories🇳🇬 @nigeria-stories.bsky.social Facts and amazing stories from Nigeria | Follow us and keep the tab on🔔 | DM for Ads and Partnership
Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social Features Writer, @mongabay.bsky.social ☀️
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaa’s Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Nonso Obikili @nonsoobikili.com Economist, African, Extras
nonsoobikili.com
Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social Birdwatcher | Photographer | Fond of the price mechanism | Critical of the living | I also speak ill of the dead | Columnist @PremiumTimesng.
Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social Obnoxious literary fiction reader | Sahel coups watcher | Russian paramilitaries stalker | Associate Director, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
Hager Ali @hagerali.bsky.social Researcher & PhD at GIGA Hamburg, Policy Advisor, Journalist. Civil-Military Relations, Authoritarianism, MENA, Sudan. Editor of #AutocraciesWithAdjectives at ECPR's Political Science Blog "The Loop". Alumna at CEU and Goethe Uni. Admin of Comparativesky
LagosDaily @lagosdaily.bsky.social Your go-to source for quality journalism across Lagos State, covering breaking news, business, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and diplomacy. LagosDaily.com.ng
Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social Dutch #journalist /writer/photographer based in #Lagos, #Nigeria. 4th book, Do-It-Yourself Society: on life in Lagos to be published in Nigeria in 2026. https://www.fvz-journaliste.nl/?lang=en
@jwpaller.bsky.social @jwpaller.bsky.social 
Roger Middleton @rogermid.bsky.social Founder The PhotoBridge Project www.thephotobridgeproject.org
Also Horn of Africa research. MD Sabi Insight Ltd and Rift Valley Inst Fellow. Ex CDI, Oxfam & Chatham House.
Lisa Ann Richey @brandaid-world.bsky.social What can I do to 'help'? #Politics #Africa #Humanitarianism #Aid #Writer Professor of Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. http://lisaannrichey.com She/her
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
Africa Confidential @africa-confidential.com In-depth analysis of political, economic and security developments across the African continent since 1960.
See more: http://africa-conf.com/m/Africa-Conf
Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social Lecturer & Researcher African Politics, @unibayreuth.bsky.social | Statecraft, Infrastructure, Urbanisation, Conflict, Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Red Sea
Chris Roper @chrisroper.bsky.social Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. He/him
Casus Belli @casusbelli.bsky.social Slightly French Analyst | #OSINT #IMINT and monitoring | Mostly Africa and ex-USSR | RT ≠ endorsement
Fabian @fabsenbln.bsky.social Aviation, politics, terrorism, military stuff and OSINT from West Africa 🇧🇫 🇳🇪 🇲🇱 🇹🇩 🇧🇯 🇹🇬 🇨🇮
Find me on Twitter: https://x.com/fabsenbln
https://fabsenbln.substack.com/
Peter Verney @peterverney.bsky.social Sudan specialist; general dabbler. Sometime aid worker, baobab planter, biologist, bum-wiper, English teacher, field music recorder*, Smartie-maker, staff writer, Zar inductee.
*Sonic scrapbook at https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/afriscape
Eye on The Horn @eyeonthehorn.bsky.social 
Think Different @lifeofmshaba.bsky.social #ChangeTanzania |#KatibaMpya | #WenyeNchiWananchi | for activism contact via WhatssApp and Telegram +1 (862) 438-3337 |Personal Views| like Not upholding |
- E Sam Jones @esamjones.bsky.social Development economist. UNU-WIDER Research Fellow based at Ministry of Economy and Finance, Mozambique. On leave from Uni. of Copenhagen.
Ananke Group @anankegroup.bsky.social Conflicts - Tech - Society - Africa - Middle East - Europe
Mark Weston @markweston19.bsky.social Researcher, policy consultant, immigrant. Author of The Saviour Fish: Life and Death on Africa's Greatest Lake - a Wanderlust and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, 2022. Based in Ghana. Sudanophile.
Peter Bofin-Kilusungu @swahilistreet.bsky.social Ireland and East Africa. Researcher on politics, conflict, and East Africa
Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
Sandra Ezekwesili @sezekwesili.bsky.social Let’s figure out what to put here together 
Kemigisa @kemigisa.bsky.social Journalist and researcher
Elective politics in Eastern Africa and African Feminisms. Plant 🪴 👩🏿
“My role was to do a story and avoid becoming one”- James Baldwin- K Alan Kasujja @kasujja.bsky.social Journalism. Africa. Strategy. Risk etc..
@ieakenya.bsky.social @ieakenya.bsky.social 
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
NairaMetrics @nairametrics.bsky.social StartUP News and Analysis | Africa + Global
@bmarmon.bsky.social @bmarmon.bsky.social 
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Camille Lefebvre @camillelefebvre.bsky.social Historienne
Directrice de recherche/Research professor CNRS-EHESS
Spécialiste du Sahara et du Sahel
19e-20e s.
PI ERC Langarchiv
https://langarchiv.hypotheses.org/
Thalia Gerzso @thaliagerzso.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at @uoypolitics.bsky.social
I study African politics, democracy, and political institutions (mainly courts and legislatures)
www.thaliagerzso.com
Zitamar News @zitamar.bsky.social Independent news and analysis from Mozambique.
Read more, and sign up to our Daily Briefing email, at www.zitamar.com
Corinna Jentzsch @corinnajentzsch.com Political Violence, Civil War, African Politics, Security Studies, Fieldwork Ethics, Gender | Political Scientist @Leiden University | Author of "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108936026)