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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.
ONE Campaign @onecampaign.bsky.social ONE fights for a more just world by demanding the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa. Because none of us are equal until all of us are equal.
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Author: Deep Unlearning: The rise of AI and the radicalization of a tech idealist.
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
Jean le Roux @jeanleroux.bsky.social Senior Investigator, Graphika.
Cape Town, South Africa.
Tom Courtright @tomcourtright.bsky.social Bodas, e-mobility, transport, cities in Uganda, elsewhere
PhD student @ UCT
Boda research @ Lubyanza
E-mobility @ AfEMA
Darren Olivier @darren.africandefence.net Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence)
Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa.
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Dr Nechama Brodie @brodiegal.bsky.social South African journalist & academic. teach/research/publish on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies + forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs. It’s not AI it’s automation
Maurice Oniango @moniango.bsky.social Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker| Published on National Geographic, The Guardian, NowThis, Africa Uncensored, The Continent, Rest of World & others | Columbia Journalism School alum | Journalism Fellow ‘22 Reuters Institute | 📍NY/NBO
DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
Amy Fallon @amyfallon.bsky.social Well X certainly didn't mark the spot, did it?
Now mostly on Substack - https://substack.com/@thetonightshowstarringamyfallon
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ophelia @kemigisha.bsky.social queer feminist, international human rights lawyer, known socialist. Ancestors’ baby. A menace to my enemies. she/her. IG: kemigisha.
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Olivier van Beemen @oli4vb.bsky.social Investigative journalist & author of "Heineken in Africa" and "Entrepreneurs in the wild" | winner Tegel | Publications: FTM, Groene Amsterdammer, The Guardian, Le Monde, Mediapart, The Continent | oli4vb at gmail.com
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Neil Munshi @neilmunshi.bsky.social Africa Editor for Bloomberg in Nairobi. Ex-
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Tommy Miles @tommymiles.bsky.social West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic.
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
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Prof Nic Cheeseman @fromagehomme.bsky.social Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa.
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Ken Opalo @kopalo.bsky.social Associate Professor at Georgetown University.
Washington, DC.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com I speak about climate futures, mitigation and adaptation in the face of the climate crisis. 🇿🇦
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Josh Hallwright, PhD @hallwright.bsky.social Humanitarian and disaster management professional turned 'academic'; ex-UNOCHA, ex-Red Cross, ex-fammer, ex-X; enjoys wine, food, the natural and social sciences; acknowledges the unfortunate job security that comes with working in humanitarian crises.
Sameer Padania @sdp.bsky.social public interest x journalism x information ecosystems x tech/AI accountability vs information inequality
linkedin.com/in/sameerpadania
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Tomi Oladipo @tomioladipo.bsky.social Journo. Analyst. | Media, International Politics, Security | #lufc
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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.
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Abdi Latif Dahir @lattif.bsky.social Middle East Correspondent at The New York Times
Maya Misikir @itsmayamisikir.bsky.social Reporter based in Ethiopia. If you’re interested in keeping with what’s going on there subscribe to my weekly updates at sifter.substack.com
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.
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Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social Queer. African. Feminist.
Director: All Protocol Obseved
Ex: Editor-in-Chief, The Continent:
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Email: read@thecontinent.org
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Marché Arends @marche.bsky.social Investigative Journalist 🇿🇦
2025 Pulitzer Center AI Accountabilty Fellow
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R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social African feminist, researcher & author researching #politics, #feminism, #artivism, #land, #food and #labour in #Senegal, Francophone #Africa & #GlobalSouth| https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8681-8476
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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics.
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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 🧘🏻♀️🏝⚽️
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Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen @cmarkthiesen.bsky.social Historian of Africa / the Globe: socioeconomic, cultures of knowledge, media. #Digital History. Advisory Editorial Board Journal of African History.
“Neglected Historiography from Africa„ 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853723000257
Ben van der Merwe @bvdm.bsky.social Digital investigations journalist at Sky News
The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social Unfiltered journalism from the Middle East and North Africa, and beyond.
Pitch to submissions@newarab.com / investigative leads to thenewarab@tutanota.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Sipho Kings @siphok.bsky.social Publisher and co-founder, The Continent newspaper - A quality weekly African paper straight to your device.
Mongabay @mongabay.com Award-winning nonprofit media outlet publishing global environmental science & news in 8 languages via bureaus in India, Brazil, Africa, Latin America, Indonesia & US: https://mongabay.com
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.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.
Simon Allison @simonallison.bsky.social Newspaper person. Co-founder @thecontinent.org
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
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.
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
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Kagumire @rosebellk.bsky.social Pan-African feminist writer. media specialist.
Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social
Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social
Columnist @newint.bsky.social
Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com Emerging Markets correspondent at the Financial Times; sovereign debt thinkfluencer; I like comics
@codeforafrica.bsky.social @codeforafrica.bsky.social Africa's largest network of #CivicTech and #OpenData labs.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
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- A @africaintelligence.fr @africaintelligence.fr
Eliza Anyangwe @elizatalks.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Fuller Project: journalism that catalyses change for women & gender minorities | Care deeply about stories: telling new ones, how we tell them, who gets to tell them, how they connect to, inform and serve audiences.
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.