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Drew Waranis 🍉 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 @drew.rw 🎶 These are our demands: We want control of our bodies. Decisions will now be ours. You can carry out your noble actions, We will carry our noble scars. 🎶
DW Akademie @akademie.dw.com DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle's center for international media development, journalism training and knowledge transfer. Posting in English and German. ➡️ akademie.dw.com 📧 dw.com/akademie-newsletters 💡 The Media Development Think Tank: dw.com/freedom
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social
Kavisha Pillay @kavipillay.bsky.social
Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
Justin @askittenasacat.bsky.social Cats. Birds. Cycling. Arsenal. Shoegaze. Post-Punk. Tofu.
Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social Scientific center for Transregional, Reciprocal African Studies and Societal Exchange at the University of Freiburg. https://act.uni-freiburg.de/en
Phillip de Wet @phillipdewet.bsky.social Sometimes on thestack.technology and sigstat.substack.com. Editor, columnist, ex News24, Business Insider SA, Mail & Guardian, Daily Maverick. Living in Canterbury, writing about tech and geopolitics, learning about AI, advocating risk-adjusted writing.
S @steffenleidel.bsky.social @steffenleidel.bsky.social @dw_akademie senior consultant
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
Ivan U. KŁYSZCZ @ivanklyszcz.com Insights on int'l security, intel, Russia | Research Fellow @ICDS-Tallinn.bsky.social | ivanklyszcz.com | Tweets reflect my views only
Øystein H. Rolandsen @ohrolandsen.bsky.social Prof. at Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) https://www.prio.org/people/4704 No glib quips, just a list of some interests: mediation, security assistance, organised violence, foreign interventions, culture, South/Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel.
Catherine Rice @catherineannrice.bsky.social Carte Blanche producer
Claes Holtzmann @claeshs.bsky.social I've been working with journalism, business models, tech, and data since 2015. Here to find and share knowledge about that. Data- and analysis editor @ jfm.dk
Duane @heritagethings.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at UCT | Heritage | Contested Public Cultures | Religion | Materiality | South Africa | Berlin | Editorial Team @Material Religion journal | ACHS Exec | ACHS Currents in Critical Heritage Studies Blog editor
Erin Bates @ermbates.bsky.social Award-winning freelance journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. @carteblanche.co.za anchor and presenter. Shares ≠ endorsements. Views ≠ those of my employers.
Busi Radebe @busiradebe.bsky.social
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Carl Gelderloos @cgelderloos.bsky.social Germ studs prof at Binghamton University (SUNY). I write and teach about German modernism, science fiction, Marx, critical theory, literature, visual studies, Philosophical Anthropology, and other things. In a union (UUP). Opinions my own.
Andrew Newdigate @suprememoocow.bsky.social Distinguished Engineer at GitLab, Inc 🦊 Application Infrastructure, Scalability, Resilience, Reliability, Observability, Platforms. Love spending time outdoors, and with my fam. Based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Views are entirely my own.
Jonas Koll @kachumbali.bsky.social Diplomat 🇩🇪 @diplo.de, 🇩🇪 DCM in Dakar. Worked a lot on tech and AI in diplo-stuff. Ornamental, without tie. If I had the time I’d have more hobbies. 👉🏻 Not official, views entirely my own.
Pianozzino @pianozzino.bsky.social I am a guitarist, teacher, songwriter, piano tuner, constant reader. 📚 I stand up for human rights. Power to the people! ✌️ Left is Best! 💙
𝙺.𝚁.𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎 @the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social 𝙼𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 & 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 @𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 (𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝/𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕). 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜. 𝙲𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌. 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎.
Russell D. Vines @rdvines.bsky.social NY Dem. 💙Author, composer, musician, cyber-security expert. Wrote 10 cyber-security books, some best-selling. Author of “Composing Digital Music For Dummies”. Former bassist with the Rat Pack, George Benson, MGM, etc. No fascists! #resist
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Patrick Boehler @pboehler.net Media & autocrats / pug kahu https://www.gazzetta.xyz
Sami Outinen @samioutinen.eurosky.social historiantutkija contemporary historian political history, the left, economic regulation, labour market, Nordic welfare states, social policy, database research Helsinki Finland ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6964-5518 https://globsoc.hypotheses.org
Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedian. My new book “Good Game, No Rematch” is out April 1st. Newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/ytjvhjsb Email: mikedruckerisdead @ gmail .com
Nomboniso Gasa @nomboniso.bsky.social Feminist. Researcher & Writer: Land, Gender, Politics & Culture. Yogi. Available for Public Talks and Keynote. Flowers. Jazz.
Tumi Nkosi @tuminkosi.bsky.social Engineer. MBA. MEng. Ke tswa Mamelodi. Mamelodi Sundows fan by birth. South African 🇿🇦 Startup Founder. Neurodivergent. Keto. Gym bunny. My husband’s baby mama. I work hard coz God promised me everything. Apple 👩🏾‍💻 is the hill I’m dying on.
Sandra Moscoso @sandramoscoso.bsky.social co-founder of #TheUpskillingLabs. finder of other things, too - especially silver linings. collector of people. best/worst mom-wife-friend ever (striving for for best, but I'm only human).
Caryn Gootkin @caryng.bsky.social SA-based book lover, justice seeker, puzzle doer
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl) Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Peter Cunliffe-Jones @pcunliffejones.bsky.social Information effects at Facts Matter Research | visiting researcher at Uni Westminster | founder africacheck.org | new book: “Fake news - what’s the harm?” available in print or as free e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/3197xq21t?locale=en
Jacopo Ottaviani @jacopoottaviani.bsky.social Computer scientist, data journalist, trainer
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Raeesa Pather @raediology.bsky.social Ink spills, pencil shavings, glowing keyboard. Blank document. Investigative journalist and writer in South Africa.
Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.
Charles Leonard @charles257.bsky.social Progressive journalist, editor, podcaster, card-carrying Joburger, Arsenal fan, amateur DJ and obsessive record collector. Unfortunately no gofund requests will be considered — I’m a poor journo.
Euan Taylor @euantaylor.bsky.social Frankfurt am Main, Brit, Scot, German. Likes to swim, read and drink coffee. Listens to Throwing Copper, Audioslave and Pearl Jam.
Murray Hunter @muzhunter.bsky.social Digital rights and surveillance oversight. Underperforming in mischief-making. South Africa.
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
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)
Alice Fereday @alicefereday.bsky.social Senior Analyst, North Africa and Sahel Observatory @Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime Researching illicit economies in the Sahel, with a focus on Niger and Chad
Hennie van Vuuren @hennievanvuuren.bsky.social Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal. www.opensecrets.org.za
Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social Africa expert, Red Sox fan, stay-at-home dad, obsessive new country visitor. Blogs at expatriarch.substack.com
Dr. David Jeffery-Schwikkard @davidjeffery.bsky.social Senior Researcher in the ANC Parliamentary Caucus in South Africa's National Assembly. I also study how people think about the law, morality, and the nation in South Africa. www.davidjeff.co.za
Mats Widgren @matswidgren.bsky.social Professor emeritus of Geography, esp. human at Stockholm University. Historical geography. landscape history, recent landscape change. Local to global. Political ecology. Royal Swedish Academy of Letters and Antiquities. https://www.su.se/profiles/widgren
Christina Peters @crystallising.bsky.social west africa correspondent @dpa / prvsly foreign politics editor / storytelling & international relations nerd / de & en
JJ @stillmejj.bsky.social I parallel parked successfully on the 17th of September, 2024.
David Valley @sonicdave2112.bsky.social Film Composer, Songwriter, Progressive coffee enthusiast and music nerd, Ally to all. No DM's🚫 No crypto🚫 Ask me about the Black Sheep Social Club! It's finally out! #Blueresisters
@larrymyboy.bsky.social @larrymyboy.bsky.social
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
ALT Advisory @altadvisory.africa An African-rooted public interest consultancy based in South Africa and Kenya, and partnering with change-makers around the world. Find our work: altadvisory.africa.
B Martin @e-transitions.bsky.social Southern Africa: Just Transitions in energy, economics, equality and equity. Also: oceans, bees, fungi and Dogs.
Ed Pomfret @edpomfret.bsky.social #Justice, that's the thing. No time for selfishness. Ignorance isn't bliss. I support social justice warriors to strengthen and build their impact-> http://PivotPoint.rocks Plus: Fast growing #twin children... #NUFC // #CrossFit..... Too sardonic //
John Stupart @john.africandefence.net Co-founder, African Defence Review Newsletters Editor, Daily Maverick Newsletters || Defence Email: jstupart@africandefence.net
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
@codeforafrica.bsky.social @codeforafrica.bsky.social Africa's largest network of #CivicTech and #OpenData labs.
Sonyanga Ole Ngais @sonyanga.bsky.social Traveller: The eye that leaves the village sees further. Filmmaker, photographer, From Kenya 🇰🇪 MA Media and Globalisation 🇬🇧, BA Communication Electronic Media 🇰🇪, Leadership in Civic Engagement 🇺🇸.
Toby Doyle @tobydoyle.bsky.social Chairman of the Yemaya Group, providing funding for renewables projects and technology; founder; farmer; funder; corporate engineer; part-time novelist-ghostwriter of popular fiction bestsellers.
Jack Hewson @jackhewson.com Al Jazeera English Correspondent reporting from Iraq | Past lives in: Ukraine, Africa, South-East Asia | RTS '26 | DuPont '23 | http://jackhewson.com/showreel
the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social here we are, caught up in this big rhythm
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social
Thokozani Chilenga-Butao @thokozanicb.bsky.social Lecturer | Researcher | Current Affairs 👩🏽‍🎓PhD Political Studies 📍Lecturer @University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 📚Researching decentralisation, governance, public admin. & policy 💍Living life with husbae & our daughter
Herbert Brewer @ducorkid.bsky.social Professor of African Diaspora History, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland | ⚽️ enthusiast
Stephen Horowitz @gtlegalenglish.bsky.social Legal English prof for GeorgetownLaw LLMs & USLawEssentials.com. Ukraine supporter. Editor of the GeorgetownLegalEnglishBlog (georgetown.legalenglish.domains) & JETwit.com. Legal English community leader, ultimate frisbee player & JET Alum;
Kerry-Anne Gilowey @kerryanne.bsky.social Content strategy and information architecture consultant | South African living her best cheese-filled life in France | F1, football, music, cats, kindness, compassion, dancing until 5am – these are a few of my favourite things
Iain Moore @driainmoore.bsky.social Research Associate in Space Technology | PhD in Astrodynamics Here for a bit of science, engineering, aviation, books, politics, photography, sport and music.
Saaleha @saaleha.bsky.social Writer | Photographer | Maker | Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize Winner for ZIKR www.saaleha.com Based in South Africa.
Ilaria Maria Sala @ilariamariasala.bsky.social words @guardian @zolima_hongkong @chinafile @nytimes @lettera_22 A ceramist in HK, a Qianlong enthusiast, a tea sipper. Also botany, birds and languages, please. Big on typos. Author of L’Eclissi di Hong Kong, add editore Follow me on IG: @ilariamariasala
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
Chris Vick @chrisvick3.bsky.social Spindoctor
Tracey Lomax-Nixon @loudmouthedchick.bsky.social Mother. Wife. Lawyer. Cats and Facts. Dogs and Debates. Love and Life. Farm girl vibes
Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. Hopeful that everyone on this app will read before commenting.
Rudi Talmakkies @rudital.bsky.social A South African 🇿🇦 living in the UK 🇬🇧
Jenty @jenty.bsky.social Photographer 📷 financial services junkie 👜 Coffee and chocolate loving ☕️ 🍫 wine drinking 🍷 running 🏃🏻‍♀️ dog and human mom 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 🇿🇦
James Costello 😎🌍🇿🇦 @jamescapetown.bsky.social World's 13th most influential #livestreamer (www.influence.co/category/livestreaming) ➡ follow my #CapeTown #food/#travel/#news exp's! 👍 #Depression/#PTSD struggler & activist 😎🌍🇿🇦
PintSizePam @pintsizepam.bsky.social Dog lover, villain, Misanthrope, hate peas, socialist leftie. Chaos gremlin. Short AF. 🇿🇦🇵🇹
Valmont Layne @layntjie.bsky.social Academic. Musician. Sound. Archive. Tech.
Jesse Harber @harber.co.za Transport planner in South Africa. Infrastructure, public transport, walking and cycling, better streets for better cities. Focused on the big questions, like “why are you building that?”. Skeets in my personal capacity.
Samantha Perry @sjp63.bsky.social Walker, writer, vegan, humanist. Random DMs will be blocked.
Kristina Pikovskaia @kpikovskaia.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (Uni of Edinburgh) MPhil&DPhil (Uni of Oxford) People-centred research on African informal economies RT≠endorsement
Marylou @maryloub.bsky.social Granny, gardener, happy South African, new dachshund owner. I love cats too.. Please, no bloodthirsty warmongering land grabbers need to follow me. I will hurt your feelings.
Rob Symons 🇺🇦 @muthimuthi.bsky.social Activist, Humanist, Anarchist, Anti-authoritarian, Anti-fascist, Anti-racist, Environmentalist, Rationalist, Empiricist...🇿🇦 Digital empowerment coach. Involved with communications, IT and cybersecurity work. Love the bush, dogs, music and reading.
Andrew Haeg @ahaeg.bsky.social Product lead, Institute for Nonprofit News https://inn.org/. Helping build a thriving journalism ecosystem, from the ground up.
HelloThando 🇿🇦 @hellothando.bsky.social Award winning South African journalist Previously @moneyweb, @mailandguardian, @Powerfm987 Currently: @BDliveSA @BusinessLiveSA maekot@businesslive.co.za Let’s talk
Sarah Fluck @sarahfluck.bsky.social Africa Correspondent Swiss Public Radio SRF @srfnews.ch. MSc African Politics via @SOAS; BA Journalism via @IAM_Winterthur and @mazluzern. Web: sarahfluck.com
Rowan @rowaneva.bsky.social
@vanessaraphaely.bsky.social @vanessaraphaely.bsky.social
Julian Rademeyer @julianrademeyer.bsky.social Writer, researcher on organised crime. Previously at Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, TRAFFIC and Africa Check. Author of 'Killing for Profit’. Views my own.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com 🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com 🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social Power, Inequality & Sustainability in Business & the Economy / Prof. of IPE at Copenhagen Business School / Co-editor Review of Int. Political Economy / New book out in 2025: “Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass.” Born @ 323 ppm
Sophie Neiman @sophie-neiman.bsky.social Journalist covering conflict and human rights | living in Kampala | trying to keep print reporting alive | she/her