Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za 
Yinka Adegoke @yinka.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Consultant. Creative Strategist. @Semafor.com
Matt Petit @mattpetit.bsky.social Former U.S. Diplomat / former NSC Director / Davidson grad. Tech and natsec, African affairs, Persian, trombone, birds (and most other animals)
African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social The African Studies Centre Leiden of @unileiden.bsky.social is the only research centre on Africa in the Netherlands. African Library. Master and Graduate Programme. Seminars. Publications. Visiting fellows. 
Namibian Policy Feed @namibiapolicyfeed.bsky.social 🇳🇦 Curated news and policy updates from Namibia, Southern Africa. Tracking governance, economic shifts, and development trends. Focus on Politics, Data, Human Rights, Economics, Biodiversity and Climate Change.
African Studies Association @asanewsonline.bsky.social Membership Association Enhancing the Exchange of Information about Africa.
Connecting all fields in/about Africa broadly in one association. Publishing @asrjournal.bsky.social & @historyinafrica.bsky.social
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M.Woldemariam @mikewoldemariam.bsky.social Prof, UMD's School of Public Policy. Security studies and Horn of Africa. College hoops junkie. Likes mostly for bookmarking.
Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Rachel Chason @rchason.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social Queer. African. Feminist.
Director: All Protocol Obseved
Ex: Editor-in-Chief, The Continent:
Here: @thecontinent.org
WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI
Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal
Telegram: t.me/continentnews
Email: read@thecontinent.org
Website: thecontinent.org
Yonatan Morse @morseyonatan.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Connecticut
African politics, democracy and autocracy, international development
www.yonimorse.com 
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.
Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social Director, Global Macro at Eurasia Group. Former RAND China Research Center, Senior Geo-Economics Analyst at Bloomberg, CSIS, DNIO for Economic Issues at NIC, and CIA. All views my own.
Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social Books | Sahel coup watcher | Wagner Group stalker | Associate Director, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
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
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives.
Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social The Journal of African History (JAH) publishes articles and book reviews ranging widely over the African past, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history
Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social "O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet..."
Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social Development economist, worrying about economic growth these days. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/justin-sandefur/
Kiri @kirir.bsky.social Journalist @thecontinent.org
Ramona Seitz @seitzramona.bsky.social Freelance Journalist. Researching on colonial legacy of Tanzania and Germany. @riffreporter @FPA_Africa. Back to university as M.A. student of media and cultural studies. #MGNalbinism #gjheritagewalks #pamojart . I also love 🧘🏻♀️🏝⚽️
🎨🖌: Marco Tibasima
Brian J. Peterson @brianjapeterson.bsky.social Historian of Africa, Prof at Union College (NY). Author: Thomas Sankara https://iupress.org/9780253053763/thomas-sankara/ Interested in Sahel and francophone Africa: French colonialism, revolutions, Cold War, environmental history
Nina Wilen @ninawilen.bsky.social Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Staffan I Lindberg /V-Dem Institute @silindberg.bsky.social Professor & Director V-Dem Institute, Political Scientist @Univ of Gothenburg.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
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.
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Bankelele @bankelele.bsky.social Chats on banking, finance, investing, aviation & motorsports in Africa.
Blog on hiatus: https://bankelele.co.ke
Podcast: Motor Life F1.
Donghyun Danny Choi @dhdannychoi.bsky.social Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Representation and inclusion in democratic societies, mostly in Africa
Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social Political science professor. Has thoughts about that thing someone said.
Book: Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History
https://tinyurl.com/te8cmzmr
https://goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/
Claire Adida @claireadida.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com Managing Editor at Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org
Signal - tylermcbrien.97
Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and more: www.tylermcbrien.com
Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social Prof of Middle East Politics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD St Antony's College, Oxford. Rhodes, Fulbright, Harvard WCFIA.
Religion & democracy. Tango & bizarre travel enthusiast. Perpetually craving Istanbul. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more
ECFR Africa @ecfrafrica.bsky.social Africa programme @ecfr.bsky.social analysing foreign policy aspects of the Africa-Europe relationship such as global order reform, middle powers, energy/climate action
Website: https://ecfr.eu/africa/ 
Dr. Matt Herbert @drherbert.bsky.social Global Thematic Lead on Human Smuggling and Head of Research for North Africa and the Sahel at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Paul Melly @paulmelly.bsky.social Reporter/researcher; Chatham House Consulting Fellow. Sahel-W. Africa, rural dev, Madagascar, French & EU Africa policy. Tweets own views; RTs not endorsements
Jack McBrams @mcbrams.bsky.social Malawian writer and storyteller. Bylines The Continent, Platform for Investigative Journalism Malawi, AFP News Agency and several other places of interest. Ulta-liberal.
Matt Bryden @dibjir.bsky.social Horn of Africa 🇩🇯🇪🇷🇪🇹🇸🇴★ I don't suffer fools, autocrats or kakistocracies masquerading as governments.
https://sahan.global/
Tommy Miles @tommymiles.bsky.social West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwncv7cLB7I/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social Migrant.
Northeast Africa & Red Sea. Frontiers & state visions, regional political economy & security.
Works at @rvinews.bsky.social
Views my own.
Laura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social SOAS DVC Research & Knowledge Exchange. Migration, refugees, diaspora, food security, conflict, Ethiopia Somalia, whippets
Katharine Houreld @khoureld.bsky.social Muckraker, traveler, adventuress. East and Southern Africa Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Email: katharine.houreld at washpost.com
Peter Henshaw @pjhenshaw.bsky.social Historian of the British empire and Commonwealth in the 20th C
Danny Wijnhoud @dwijnhoud.bsky.social 
Samira Sawlani @samirasawlani.bsky.social Journalist. Writer. (Bylines- AJE, NYT, Vice).
East Africa with an eye on the rest of the African Continent.
I lift weights.
Love books. Based in London.
Phumzile Van Damme @phumzile.bsky.social Changemaker. Award-Winning Counter Disinformation Strategist. @Harvard Technology & Human Rights Fellow. @VitalVoices Global Leader. Ex-MP. INFJ. Virago.
Sam Ratner @samratner.bsky.social Policy director at Win Without War, working to enact a more just and progressive US foreign policy. Formerly @ACLEDINFO and @ZitamarNews. He/him. Views my own.
Belinda Dodson @belindadodson.bsky.social Semi-lapsed academic. Research interests in migration, gender, and development; mainly Southern Africa.
Lives in Ottawa, Canada. Previously Eswatini, Zambia, South Africa, UK. 
defenceWeb @defenceweb.co.za defenceWeb.co.za is Africa’s leading online aerospace and defence news and analysis portal, delivering timely and accurate information to a global audience of industry professionals, decision-makers, and enthusiasts. 
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
Jane Flanagan @janeflan.bsky.social Africa Correspondent, The Times
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
Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com Senior Director of Liberal Projects at @theihs.org, where I lead @Liberalism.org and host The Liberalism.org Show. Views my own. ☸️
Co-host of the Inner Life of Liberalism with @uncanonical.net
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/
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
Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social Director, Converging Risks Lab, within the Council on Strategic Risks.
Former DASD(FE&T) and RAND policy wonk.
Come for the foresight, stay for the fun.
Yes, I took that photo. It was even cooler than you think.
https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/crl/
Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social Nuclear historian. Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Visiting researcher at Nuclear Knowledges program, Sciences Po (Paris). Author of THE MOST AWFUL RESPONSIBILITY (2025). Creator of NUKEMAP. Blogging at https://doomsdaymachines.net.
Jackson Crawford @norsebysw.bsky.social Former instructor (UCLA/UCB/CU), Ph.D., on youtube ( www.youtube.com/jacksoncrawford ). Imperfectly trying to teach Old Norse things and linguistics. 2nd Ed. of my translation of the Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes now out. Colorado.
James Temple @jtemple.bsky.social Climate and energy editor, Reno bureau chief, MIT Technology Review. Ski bum. Dog dad.
Please send tips (not PR pitches) through Signal: jtemple.99
Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social Surface Warfare Officer (U.S. Navy) in DC. Six years in Japan, two years in China. Episcopalian. Johns Hopkins SAIS/HNC alum. 中文/日本語 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇹🇼
CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social Office of Ward 4 DC Councilmember Janeese Lewis George. Fighting for working families in the community where I grew up. She/her #PeopleFirst
Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars
https://linktr.ee/wesleysmorgan
Author of THE HARDEST PLACE (2021)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227894/the-hardest-place-by-wesley-morgan/
Signal: https://tinyurl.com/kzmejtaw
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Out In National Security @outinnationalsecurity.org A non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to empowering queer national security professionals.
Apply TODAY for our Leadership Development Fellowship for young professionals: https://shorturl.at/F12TP Deadline: May 29
OutInNationalSecurity.org
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas, Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science Technology, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Open Secrets ZA @opensecrets.org.za Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
Thabani Mutambasere @thabanisere.bsky.social Lecturer: African Studies and International Development @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social | International Development | Migration | African Diaspora |
Book: ‘Horizontal Development’ available here: https://bristol-press.co.uk/horizontal-development
Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social I research the white power movement and far right media; member @splcunion.bsky.social; @uwsjmc.bsky.social PhD; tips at jtischauser@protonmail.com
Chicago-style always and forever
https://wisc.academia.edu/JeffTischauserPhD
Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com Leading digital news and information platform covering voting rights, elections, and the courts — from an unapologetically pro-democracy standpoint.
Newsletters: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg
Reporting: democracydocket.com
Founded: @marcelias.bsky.social
Heather Sullivan @hsulli.bsky.social Political scientist, photography futzer, would rather be climbing
Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social 
Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Laura K Field @lkatfield.bsky.social Scholar in Residence at the Niskanen Center in DC. Author of Furious Minds, about the MAGA New Right. Bylines at The Bulwark, The New Republic, Politico, NYT, The Atlantic.
www.lkfield.com
Also with American University, Illiberalism Studies at GW.
Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. International political economy, international relations, & international finance. 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺 politics & economic policy. Tradeoffs in everything.
Boni Dulani @tallmanfromzomba.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and farmer. Zomba, Malawi
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social 📊🗺🗳 Poll aggregation and election analysis in Europe #EP2029
📧 contact@europeelects.eu
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Center for Global Development @cgdev.org The leading think-and-do tank for #globaldev🌍 Celebrating 20+ years of independent research & ideas for global prosperity.
mediarelations@cgdev.org
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Jeune Afrique @jeuneafrique.com Pour suivre toute l'info en #Afrique : un mensuel, un site web, des applis mobiles et désormais un compte Bluesky !
Rendez-vous sur notre site : jeuneafrique.com
Michelle Boorstein @michelleboorstein.bsky.social curious religion reporter. cockapoo-obsessed. I have questions.
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Carolyn E Holmes @carolyneholmes.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Judd Devermont @jdevermont.bsky.social Operating Partner, Kupanda Capital | Board Member, Fraym | Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie Africa Program | Former NSC Senior Director for African Affairs | Former National Intelligence Officer for Africa | Personal Account
Mark Thomas-Patterson @mrtpatterson.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UNC Chapel Hill. Opinions expressed are solely mine.
Scholar of international relations in the post-Cold War era.
Matthias Rompel @matthiasrompel.bsky.social Director East Africa & Horn of Africa @giz.de, formerly Country Director Ethiopia, Djibouti, Malawi. Global Citizen, International Cooperation Practitioner, Hon. Professor @jlugiessen.bsky.social
Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social Senior researcher at @openmeasures.io
Co-host of "Posting Through It": https://www.patreon.com/PostingThroughIt
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social Good Authority's mission is to bring insights from political science to a broader audience. https://goodauthority.org
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR | 
Bate Felix TT @batefelix.bsky.social Reuters Breaking News Editor for Sub-Saharan Africa.