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Śrīkānta
shrikanth_krish
What @dhume is hinting at here is - India should've opted for the British monarch as our ceremonial head of state in 1947Instead of an indirectly elected Presidency we have
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Emmanuel Freudenthal
EmmanFre
Cameroon: tomorrow (22/09), opposition marches will call for Biya to leave, despite the government's threats of violence.This *could* be a watershed moment, I think.Some fear that internet will be cut
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Oneirologist
resigneddespair
Winston Churchill and the ethics of Indian tech support scams: a thread India, once the pearl of Asia, used to account for 20% of the world's GDP. However, after the
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Michael Pettis
michaelxpettis
1/10CFR has put together an excellent “Global Imbalances Tracker” that allows users access to current account data in a very handy format. There were two things that struck me most
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Stephen Miller
miller_stephen
canada is W-I-L-D y'all (a short thread)Quebec has a law that prohibits public workers from wearing religious symbols To pass it, Quebec invoked a constitutional provision that allows laws
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Helen De Cruz
Helenreflects
Tomorrow I will be part of a panel on prestige and inclusion in Anglo-American philosophy (with @Etienne_Brown @RebeccaBamford and Thierry Ngosso. Here are some late night thoughts on the following
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Luna Farrowe 🦇
LunaFarrowe
Me: *reads excellent thread by @northgalis liveblogging book!Shadow & Bone*Also me: Hmmm let's watch Netflix!Shadow & Bone for the only interesting character in it Also also me: *has BA in
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Alex Mulholland
molach95
I saw a Cherokee writer there saying the following:"We don't have as many fluent speakers as there should be to keep our language alive. We’re putting too much of the
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Sune Auken, Dr.Habil. #FBPEGlobal #BLM
SuneAuken
Good anglophone friends might have noticed that my feed turned Danish and did a very long thread on Friday. I was at a Danish doctoral defense. That's a wild creature.
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Rebecca Enonchong
africatechie
For non Cameroonians: when we refer to Southern Cameroons or Northern Cameroons these are territory names both located in West Cameroon. S. Cameroons and N. Cameroons administered by British w/
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Francois Ouellette 老方
FrancoisOuell15
1- Americans, or Brits or Aussies, who only speak English cannot really understand what it's like to speak a "minority" language, and be confronted with the dilemma of wanting to
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Onye Nkuzi
cchukudebelu
My first consulting job took me to Kano. We were housed in a guest house. The senior manager was Brazilian, the big boss was Nigerian.The senior manager was automatically housed
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.
shengokai
Right, so. Let me talk about the disciplinary implications of Singer's statement here: @Helenreflects has a good meditation on this at the Philosopher's Cocoon, linked below. I largely agree with
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Anna Tang🇨🇲🇿🇦🇳🇬🇲🇱🇬🇭
annatangb
Dear NigeriansOn the 6th of October2016, a group of lawyers and teachers from the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium started a PEACEFUL PROTEST to protect the common law system of
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Andrés Pertierra
ASPertierra
why is history, as a discipline, relatively theory averse compared to other disciplines it seems like the aversion is worst in Anglophone historiography, so I'm tempted to blame the English
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Tola Fola
TolaFola
I have an interesting "theory" as to why West African countries/companies struggle to have large scale industries with international subsidiaries l outside of West Africa, at least, in comparison to
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