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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
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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.
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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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Monique Weits @moniqueweits.bsky.social Still not prone to laborious endeavors.
Deshnee Subramany @deeshroom.bsky.social Communications manager at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies.
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Rupert Koopman @rkct.bsky.social Botanist, plant conservation in the fynbos, husband, dad
Janine Jellars @thejaninej.bsky.social Testing, is this thing on?
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Fathimah F. Izzati @fathimafildzaizz.bsky.social PhD researcher at SOAS Development Studies
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.
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George Kwaku Ofosu @gofosu.bsky.social Assistant Professor LSE Government. Research: electoral politics, political accountability, democracy, African politics
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Destenie Nock, PhD @destenie.bsky.social Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Energy Affordability. Energy & Climate Justice. Macro Energy Systems Modeling. CEO - Peoples Energy Analytics. Named a 2024 Science Defender. Nonfiction rep: @laurieabkemeier. Fiction rep: @ajvanbelle
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HelloThando 🇿🇦 @hellothando.bsky.social Award winning South African journalist Previously @moneyweb, @mailandguardian, @Powerfm987 Currently: @BDliveSA @BusinessLiveSA maekot@businesslive.co.za Let’s talk
CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social We're the Centre for the Study of African Economies, a research centre at the University of Oxford. We focus on improving economic and social conditions in developing countries.
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HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa @humauct.bsky.social HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa is an interdisciplinary research institute based in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town (UCT) https://humanities.uct.ac.za/huma 
MaggieDwyer.bsky.social @maggiedwyer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh; Research on military and politics in Africa, peacekeeping, conflict, interventions.
Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch.bsky.social Working on African migration governance & Europe-Africa migration relations; also SA and African economic development. New South Institute, UCT and SOAS. Member of President Ramaphosa's Economic Advisory Council. Orlando Pirates, Chelsea, & Springboks.
Ainara Mancebo @ainaramancebo.bsky.social Political scientist in comparative democracy based in Cape Town, RSA.
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Thokozani Chilenga-Butao @thokozanicb.bsky.social Lecturer | Researcher | Current Affairs
👩🏽🎓PhD Political Studies
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📚Researching decentralisation, governance, public admin. & policy
💍Living life with husbae & our daughter
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. 
Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com
Kabelo @kbzfire.bsky.social Ain't nothing to do, but to do it...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her.
Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring.
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Morgan C. Williams, Jr. @mwilljr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at @barnard-college.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Interested in crime & criminal justice through the prism of racial inequality.
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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
Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social Publisher and co-founder, The Continent newspaper - A quality weekly African paper straight to your device. 
Africa Confidential @africa-confidential.com In-depth analysis of political, economic and security developments across the African continent since 1960.
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Ben Caldecott @bencaldecott.bsky.social Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group, University of Oxford. Finance, climate, energy, sustainability and nature. Working globally with financial institutions, companies, governments, regulators and civil society.
Works in Progress @worksinprogress.bsky.social Works in Progress is an online magazine about new & underrated ways to improve the world. worksinprogress.co
Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social Stanford economist:
Professor of Political Economy; Business & Sustainability.
GSB, SDSS, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs, REStud editor for R&Rs only :)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
Everything Hip Hop @tyflee.bsky.social Hip Hop Archive 
Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social assoc professor at LSE // thinking about anticolonial + socialist archives // anticolonial afterlives in egypt (cambridge university press) // ⚽️ obsessed // she/her
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
More here: https://www.africanistperspective.com/
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
Benjamin Fogel @benjaminfogel.bsky.social Head of Publishing at Alameda, Contributing Editor at Jacobin. South African
Shireen Hassim @shireenhassim.bsky.social African socialist feminist political junkie, loves all who make the world beautiful. Work in Ottawa, live in Toronto, love in Johannesburg. Knitting my way to sanity.
Paddy Carter @paddycarter.bsky.social Head of development economics at British International Investment, formerly CGD, ODI, lapsed academic economist and macroeconomics hobbyist.
https://sites.google.com/site/paddycarter/
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.
Jack Calland @jackcalland.bsky.social Our goal lies far in the distance, clearly visible. PhD in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government & Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Working on employment & social protection. 🇿🇦 🇬🇧
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Chris Vick @chrisvick3.bsky.social Spindoctor
Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social Word artist. Comms worker. Afro-positivist. 🍉Novelist| Ghostwriter | Musician | Editorial Director. Johannesburg, South Africa. Spoken-word acoustic album http://bit.ly/3KSbbe5
Zama @zamandlovu.bsky.social I have a serious job. I’ve done and written serious things. But not here for that. Hoping I can occasionally have serious thoughts without needing to be a serious person.
Zakes Mda @zakesmda.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Academic, Professional Dabbler
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