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Laurie Garrett

Laurie_Garrett

Jeff Zients and the @WhiteHouse #COVID19 team presented a status report this morning. First, from @CDCDirector Walensky, good news that the holiday surge in new cases, hospitalizations & even deaths

AAbiodun 🇳🇬

AAbiodun_

Rare Images Of What Lagos Looked Like Half A Century Ago. [A Thread] Tinubu SquareConstructed in the 60’s and located in the heart of Lagos. The amazing stages of change.

Kathleen E. Kennedy

TheMedievalDrK

Digging through cookbook db has me thinking, a random thread about midwestern food and taste. Midwestern American food is and easy dunk these days. Tasteless, in more ways than one.And

bella | hale appleman's filmography encyclopedia

SAGAWARDSHALE

@hale_appleman @SummerBishil1 @ArjunGuptaBK i've tried to stay silent on this bc i didn't want to start any drama or put you guys in an uncomfortable position, but this needs to

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Social media for slow learnershttps://twitter.com/BBCNewsNI/status/933824909393977344 Oops, I did it again I had a long exchange with this peer of the realm about what he saw as my mistake in thinking

David Graeber

davidgraeber

The first major activist movement in the US after independence were the Abolitionists & I wonder sometimes if they set the tone for US activism - it's peculiar characteristic puritanism

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

Sci-Hub gives access to this paper on Roman DNA:https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/708 Roman region had two major shifts in ancestry composition - arrival of EEFs & farming, then later the Indo-European invasion. By

Take The “Chris” Out of Christmas

brujacontumbao

Semi-coherent rant re: Lots of ethnic vs racial vs national discrimination discourse this past week: It reminds me that you’d dead a lot of bad convos where people try to

Ebe Ouattara

EbeOuattara

imo, the article sacrifices important context and nuance for the sake of providing a ‘simple’ story of Ivorian politics over the past 30 years. In doing so, it ends up

Elijah Rempe

elijahrempe

I keep thinking about Beirut, the senselessness of the blast and the ubiquity of the materials that caused it. An ammonia plant was nearly built on the Columbia to turn

ʍʀ աɛʍs 🔆

mr_wemz

Let me take you back with this Ghana- Naija throwback music threadThere's no throwback without a Castro hit 9ice with Gongo aso. Some of you should be married Angelina

Sisa

Titanbaddie

#ThobelaThursday: Brenda Fassie. The Queen of African Pop. Announcements.1. We will not be able to post every single hit in her 24 year career so I did my best to

Gucci Jesus

chuksjn

Thread of Date Locations in Abuja Central Park- This place is for those who love activity dates, you could choose either Go-karting or Paintballing(with a water park coming soon)but

Ancient And Medieval Africa

AAMAfrica

There were many ancient kingdoms in the Horn Of Africa, even going back before the Axum/Aksum era. One of the most dominate from this period was called D'mt/Da'amat, located in

Echoes of the Past!

EchoesofthePas1

When it comes to a people - black, white, native Indian, oriental, etc. - LAND AND BLOOD are an essential element.It was LAND AND BLOOD that gave rise to these

World Publicist

IsimaOdeh

This a thread of African Presidents, who were overthrown in coups by their friends, loyalists or even relatives. Sudan's former President Jafaar an-Nimiery, who ruled from 1969 to 1985, survived

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