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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
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own. Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
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
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
Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social So-called scholar activist
Jane Flanagan @janeflan.bsky.social Africa Correspondent, The Times
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
Charlotte Bailey @penandpaper1989.bsky.social Aviation writer, researcher and journalist. Author of Vampire Boys. Winner of the 2024 Aerospace Media Awards Best New Journalist of the Year.
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence.net) Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa. Email: dolivier@africandefence.net Signal: darren.13
Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com Emerging Markets correspondent at the Financial Times; sovereign debt thinkfluencer; I like comics
Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork.bsky.social Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
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.
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