Anshu Sharma @anshugsharma.myatproto.social Studying quantum networking. YIMBY, anti-ethnonationalisms, pro open borders. Bathrooms shouldn't be gendered. ‘Anarchist’ isn't a slur. He/him. Adult.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshugsharma/
Kenji @elementaleucology.com Healer | Miraculist | Cultural engineer
Black queer strategist and organizer committed to a habitable earth and joyful embodiments of the erotic. Life finds a way. (Some NSFW)
https://campsite.bio/the_eucologist
Emma Charlton @emcharlton.bsky.social News editor at Agence France-Presse in Brussels. Previously in DC, Paris and London.
Elias Gebreselassie @eliasgebre1986.bsky.social Freelance journalist at large
Patrick Kennedy @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social Zoologist studying the evolution of cooperation and conflict, mainly with social wasps of Africa | Lecturer at University of Bristol, UK | main focus Cameroon, Kenya + South Africa
tinyurl.com/SocialStrategyLab
Prof Barbara Bompani @barbara-bompani.bsky.social Academic working on Public Religion & Int Development in Africa. Dipartimento Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali & Imprese Culturali. Universita’ di Parma, Italy
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Lesley Anne Warner, PhD @lesleyannewarner.bsky.social Posts about African security issues & U.S.-Africa policy. PhD from @warstudies. Usual caveats apply, but any offensive content comes from my toddlers. 🇹🇹-🇺🇸
Embassy of Sweden in Abuja @swedeninnigeria.bsky.social Official Bluesky page for the Embassy of Sweden in Abuja. The Embassy represents Sweden in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and ECOWAS.
Stephanie Burchard @smburchard.bsky.social Covered in toddlers at the moment (probably), otherwise occupied by questions about elections, violence, security, WPS, and Africa. Adjunct prof at GWU.
Zohra Bensemra @zohrabensemta.bsky.social Reuters Chief Photographer, W Africa. Any opinions are my own. retweets are not endorsement. Don’t take jokes for endorsement too
Institute of Current World Affairs @icwa.org We advance American understanding of international cultures and affairs by sending young professionals abroad on two-year independent writing fellowships.
RI DaSēr @sotreu.blacksky.app "clever, knowing, jaded"
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https://linktr.ee/railinasah
AVAC @avac.org Proven strategies for today and research for tomorrow. A global source for updates, advocacy and information on HIV prevention. More at AVAC.org.
Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social Reproductive health reporter @19thnews.org
I wrote UNDUE BURDEN, a book about abortion post-Dobbs. Past lives: KHN, The Texas Tribune.
Julien Baker/Boston Celtics/Jaguars enthusiast. She / Her. sbluthra(at)19thnews(dot)org; Signal: shefaliluthra.94
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
Zachary Goelman @zgoelman.bsky.social NYC journo. Reuters, ex-NYDN, ex-NYPost.
Fan of crime fiction, crime non-fiction, daily Talmud study.
Bertrand de Seissan @bdeseissan.bsky.social Head of cooperation @French Embassy in Kenya and Somalia.
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times.
Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK.
https://chriskay.co.uk/
https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social Global health correspondent. Dispatches from the frontlines of the suddenly uncertain global AIDS response: https://theforsaken.substack.com/. 2025 Alicia Patterson Fellow.
Hasret Kargın @hasretkargin.bsky.social Researcher/ Focus on Africa
https://open.substack.com/pub/hasretkargin?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4mz338
Sub-Saharan Africa report every week.
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
Ariana Hashtrudi @ahashtrudi.bsky.social Middle East News Editor at https://Maghrebi.org, a non-partisan MENA news site
David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social cnn senior pop culture writer/reporter. noted idiot
Ex-BuzzFeed News + ABC News (Australia)
Writing in Slate, Rolling Stone, NY Mag, NY Times, Bustle, The Daily Beast. Yahoo, MSNBC.
Signal: davidmackau.07
Sarah Vaughan @sarahvaughan.bsky.social long-term observer Ethiopia and the Horn
Cassandra Vinograd @cvinograd.bsky.social Journalist | Now: @nytimes | Before: @60minutes @NBC @AP @WSJ | @pulitzercenter grantee
Rosa Furneaux @rosafurneaux.bsky.social Investigative Reporter
Alex Hiniker @hiniker.bsky.social Disarmament fan due to years working on landmine and cluster bomb clearance in Cambodia, Laos, and Lebanon. Syria also has a place in my heart.
I dig public transit and local government, too.
Proudly from PG County. Now in Pittsburgh.
Tim Shenk @tim.doctorswithoutborders.org Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières USA. Based in NYC and internationally focused. Opinions my own.
@doctorswithoutborders.org
Jozef Naudts @jozefnaudts.bsky.social Passionate about Africa. Focus on Humanitarian issues, Human Rights & Press Freedom. Messages represent personal opinions.
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)
@mediocrebard.bsky.social @mediocrebard.bsky.social
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
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
Samuel Gebre @habesha.bsky.social Hike on Tuesdays.
Subscribe to my >> https://samuelgebre.substack.com/
Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social Director of Editorial at @reutersinstitute.bsky.social. Journalist. I love trains, opera and books. From León, Spain
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_
Ulf Laessing @ulflaessing.bsky.social Head of Sahel Programme at Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Bamako; previously 13 years for Reuters in Mideast/Africa; Author of Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi; personal account
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is an independent policy research hub within the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Dave Levine @tubbyb.bsky.social Tacoma raised, tempered child and dog enthusiast, Huskies, Sonics, Seahawks, USWNT, Tottenham, Mariners, Sounders, Storm, Reign, and Kraken fan.- Z 📰 @zakeriye.bsky.social Journalist.
Camille Lons @camillelons.bsky.social Deputy Head Paris office and Policy fellow @ecfr #MiddleEast geoeconomics, #Gulf, #China-MENA, #RedSea. Ex-@IISS_org
(usual caveats) camille.lons@ecfr.eu
James Barnett @james-barnett.bsky.social Researcher and PhD candidate studying conflict and political transitions in Africa (Nigeria and the Horn). Fieldwork fanatic, interdisciplinary inclinations
Various affiliations, but all views my own.
Michael Dwyer @michaeldwyer.bsky.social Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Andrew Farrand @afarrand.bsky.social MENA energy analyst | American abroad | author of The Algerian Dream, translator of Inside the Battle of Algiers
Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Vanessa Parra 🪐💫 @parrav.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Danyel Reiche @politicsofsports.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Department of Government & Society at United Arab Emirates University. Formerly, American University of Beirut & Georgetown University. Chairing the Political Studies Association Sport & Politics group.
Rachel Chason @rchason.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com West Africa bureau chief, based in 🇸🇳
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rchasonwp
Elian Peltier @elianpeltier.bsky.social Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau chief - The New York Times
Rahma Hussein @rahmahussein.bsky.social
Simeon Kerr @simeonkerr.bsky.social Scotland correspondent, former Gulf correspondent - Financial Times
Jane Flanagan @janeflan.bsky.social Africa Correspondent, The Times
M. Christopher Low @mchrislow.bsky.social Middle East and Environmental Historian | Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah | Author: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj | Desalination and Climate | Views are my own
https://history.utah.edu/faculty/chris-low.php
Ali Shihabi علي الشهابي @alishihabi.bsky.social Writing about the Politics and Economics of Saudi Arabia
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.
Papa Ismaila Dieng 🇸🇳 @aliamsi.bsky.social Journaliste | Chargé de la Communication et Gestion des connaissances à EndaSanté || @AFRICTIVISTES.bsky.social 4 life | Posts are my own | RT ≠ endorsement | Photography | Music | Travel.
https://linktr.ee/aliamsi
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
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.
Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
@jwpaller.bsky.social @jwpaller.bsky.social
Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social Features Writer, @mongabay.bsky.social ☀️
Oumar FALL @oumarfall.bsky.social Dad, Geek, Swing dancer. #Senegal 🇸🇳 #kebetu
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Amadou Sall @amadousall.com Frontend Engineer from Senegal 🇸🇳.
Google Developer Expert in Angular.
International Speaker/Technical Writer.
Ufahamu Africa @ufahamuafrica.bsky.social A podcast about life and politics on the African continent.
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR |
Rachel Strohm @rachelstrohm.bsky.social 📝 Occasional commentary on global politics + policy
📍 London / Chicago / Nairobi
🌐 http://rachelstrohm.com
Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
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
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
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
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)
David Sheppard @oilsheppard.bsky.social Financial Times Acting Whitehall Editor. Former FT Energy Editor, but still dabbles in what makes the world go round. Ex-Reuters.
Nick Tattersall @nicktatters.bsky.social Global Managing Editor, Newsroom @Reuters. Now London. Previously Istanbul, Lagos, Frankfurt, Dakar and New York. Opinions my own.
Hilary Matfess @hilarymatfess.bsky.social Assistant Prof @ Korbel School of International Studies | studies gender and violence | into coffee, running, lifting, and dogs
Concern Worldwide @concernworldwide.bsky.social We are an international humanitarian organisation that strives for a world free from poverty, fear and oppression. Working in 24 countries globally.
Franklin Nossiter @franklinnoss.bsky.social Sahel Researcher @ International Crisis Group
Dakar, Senegal
Matthieu Gautier @tieumatiego.bsky.social Project Developer @IOMDjibouti l French-Senegalese NGO Futur Au Présent International l African Studies Lecturer l
Writer @BergerLevrault l Horn of Africa l youth policies, International development, migration
Arthur Scott-Geddes @arthurscottgeddes.bsky.social Deputy Editor @telglobalhealth.bsky.social
Contact: arthur.scottgeddes@telegraph.co.uk
Previously in Germany and Pakistan
Free to read 🔓
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/
SLAM: Islamic Art @slamislamicart.bsky.social Sharing artworks from the Islamic Art department of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Reuters @reuters.com - T Tanya @tanyatxw.bsky.social Journalist, currently AFP bureau chief for East Africa, based in magical Kenya
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Callum Paton @callumpaton.bsky.social Journalist for AFP in Qatar. Opinions own. Email: callum.paton@afp.com
Richard Carter @rdcafp.bsky.social AFP bureau chief in The Hague. Ex Global Deputy Editor, Paris Newsed, Tokyo, Berlin, Brussels, London. Loves news, sport, funny stuff!
jakespring.bsky.social @jakespring.bsky.social Climate and Environment Reporter for @washingtonpost.com. Ex-Reuters, Ex-Brazil, Ex-China. Host of Foreign Correspondence podcast.
Noé Hochet-Bodin @noehb.bsky.social Journo. Focus on East Africa.
Former @lemonde.fr
Past #SouthAfrica #Ethiopia #Kenya
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/
Albert Burneko @albertburneko.bsky.social Defector dot com
Becca Milfeld @beccamilfeld.bsky.social Dakar-based AFP journalist covering West Africa. Former Washingtonian, always a Texan.
Laura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social SOAS DVC Research & Knowledge Exchange. Migration, refugees, diaspora, food security, conflict, Ethiopia Somalia, whippets
Darren Olivier @handle.invalid Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
Email: dolivier@africandefence.net
Signal: darren.13