An enslaver with the whip. Image Credits: Berkley

🔥 Read 𝗢𝗻𝘄𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗸𝗼 𝗔𝗴𝗼𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗼 on "Reparative Justice, Abolitionism, and Decolonization: Africana Critical Perspectives on Criminology."
✍️A criminology on reparations and the emerging contestations
📖→ www.pambazuka.org/Reparative-J...
#reparations #Africans
@malangwa.bsky.social @friendsofbiko.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch MP (North West Essex, Leader of the Conservative Party and Opposition, UK) speaking during the Prime Minister's Questions, 6 November 2024.

✍️𝗢. 𝗪𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂 responds to the Leader of UK’s Conservative Party's comment that, rather than abstaining, the UK should have voted against the UN Resolution Condemning Slavery as a Crime Against Humanity.
📖Read more → www.pambazuka.org/Open-letter%...
#UK #KemiBadenoch #gravestcrime
@malangwa.bsky.social

Patrice Lumumba of Congo, next to Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eystens, signs the document claiming independence for the Congo.

🔥In "Time Longer Than Rope: The Assassins of Patrice Lumumba on Trial," by 𝗛. 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹
✍️Étienne Davignon and the systems of enslavement stand trial in Belgium and in the international arena for the gravest crime against humanity.
📖Read more → www.pambazuka.org/index.php/As...
@malangwa.bsky.social

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

‘Assault on justice’: how far-right attacks are threatening rule of law in Europe Judicial independence is under threat as populist politicians target judges and authoritarian governments attempt constitutional reforms

A very timely piece in today’s Guardian, on attacks on lawyers, judges and the rule of law. Tomorrow in my presentation at the SLSA, I will be talking about the UK government’s framing of UK immigration lawyers and the threat it poses to the Rule of Law.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

🔥𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦-𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻?
🎯Energy, trade, power and security at stake.
📖Read Issue 917 now → www.pambazuka.org
#GlobalAfrica #Geopolitics #MiddleEast

@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social

🔖Read "Cuba’s Healthcare Internationalism: The World’s Healthful Debt" by 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗿
📢A call to reciprocate Cuba’s healthcare solidarity and goodwill amid tightening blockade
👉 tinyurl.com/Cuba-healthc...
#Cuba #USA #Healthcare #Africa #Reciprocity
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

The Plantation Ideal by Wendy Wolford - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Wendy Wolford, The Plantation Ideal: Landscapes of
Extraction in Mozambique – @ucpress.bsky.social, November 2025
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-pl...
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion with Miranda Melcher
newbooksnetwork.com/the-plantati...

How do refugees navigate and reshape the EU’s geopolitics of asylum? Drawing on fieldwork in Greece, @G.Mavrommatis shows how refugees enact their geopolitics in practice, exercising freedom as possibility within and against restrictive EU and national regimes.

#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Cuba and CARICOM flags displayed at CARICOM/ Cuba Day Exhibition, 8 December 2018.

🔥In "Cuba and Caribbean Sovereignty: An Unpayable Debt",
✍️𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵 analyzes the debt the Caribbean states owe Cuba, given its numerous contributions to the region and #Caribbean reciprocal responsibility towards #Cuba.
Read it 👉 www.pambazuka.org/Cuba-and-Car...
@malangwa.bsky.social

Marxism can still change the world I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative

Marxism can still change the world, by David Harvey

Cuban PT-76 tank crew on routine security duties in Angola. Image credit: Commons

🔥 In "Cuito Cuanavale and the Break from Western Capitalist and Racist Domination: Africa’s Debt to #Cuba,"
✍️𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 explains Cuban military and medical interventions in #Africa's liberation from colonialism and poor health
🔖Read it 👉 tinyurl.com/Cuito-Cuanav...
@malangwa.bsky.social

🔥The Debt is ours, and the #Obligation towards Cuba is the world's!
📖What has Cuba contributed to the world, and how should the world respond amid the U.S. embargo?
📚 #Issue916 breaks it down👉 www.pambazuka.org
#Cuba #Solidarity #Debt #USA
@malangwa.bsky.social @dsacuba.bsky.social

🚨It’s publication day!🚨

My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!

Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!

Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms

Bodies believed to be migrants wash ashore in Italy after storms #Refugees

“We Know Where We’re Going, We Know Where We’re From”: What Role For IFCs In Global Tax Governance? | IFC Review Small island states, many of them international financial centres, are being battered – once again. You could be forgiven for thinking that the only thing

Many small financial centres have had it with being battered - whether by extreme climate events, or by the racist structures of international tax. In this piece for IFC Review, I look at the opportunities that the process presents. www.ifcreview.com/articles/202...

"Countries that do not buy the product sold by the company that pays my exorbitant salary could be left behind"

Published in @theguardian.com which also has a partnership with said company

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

David Harvey: The Story of Capital | The Verso Book Club Reading Group On February 22nd at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar David Harvey to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital:…

On February 22nd the Verso Book Club will be hosting an online reading group with the legendary Marxist scholar @davidharvey.org to discuss his latest work, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works.

Flyer with information on the upcoming Pambazuka Global Town Hall on Venezuela and recklessness in the period of the decline of imperialism

📅Countdown: 4 Days!!
📢Join #Pambazuka's 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 on Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 1700hrs GMT for a conversation on #Venezuela, imperial decline & more.
🎧Zoom: bit.ly/4r7FLVK
YouTube: youtube.com/@pambazukane...
ℹ️ Visit tinyurl.com/Pambazuka-To...
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

AFCON 2025 Trophy given to Senegal, Continental Champion for the 35th Africa Cup of Nations, 18 January 2026. Image Credits: Super Sports YouTube/Cephas.

🔥AFCON 2025: A Global African View
✍️An analysis of the intellectual, historical, political, and Pan-African implications of the 2025-2026 African Cup of Nations.
🔗Read more here: pambazuka.org/AFCON-2025
#Senegal #AFCON2025
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social @footballive.bsky.social

Kenya's Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, signing the U.S.-Kenya Health Framework of Cooperation with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, D.C., on 4 December 2025.

🔥In "America First, Africa Last: Data Extraction from Africa’s Bodies and the Erosion of Health Sovereignty,"
✍️ 𝗔𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗢. 𝗦𝘂𝗹𝗲 analyzes US's #AFHS and imperial capitalist efforts to exploit Africa's health information.
📖Read more ➡️ pambazuka.org/Data-Extract...
#Africa #US
@malangwa.bsky.social

Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Prof. Jim Skea, addresses the Autumn Meeting, Dublin, 3 October 2024. Image Credits: OSCEPA via Wikimedia.

🔥In "Trump’s Withdrawal from Global Climate Governance: Symptoms of Moral and Systemic Failure,"
✍️𝗞𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗜𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗺 offers a geopolitical-economic assessment of the #US withdrawal from climate-related international organizations
📖Read more➡️ tinyurl.com/Trump-Withdr...
#IPCC #UNFCCC
@malangwa.bsky.social

🔥In "Iran v. US Imperialism: An Interview with Navid Farnia & Nina Farnia,"
✍️𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 & 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 answer questions on the protests in #Iran, #US imperialism and Iranian #resistance.
📖Read more ➡️ www.pambazuka.org/Iran-vs-US-I...
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social @iran.bsky.social

Maduro and his Wife, after their abduction, being transported by the DEA to the New York Court, 6 January 2025. Image Credits: Inside Edition YouTube Channel/Cephas.

🔥Abduction of Nicolas #Maduro: Sign of the Decline of #US Imperialism
✍️Pambazuka News outlines its position on how #Africans and working peoples worldwide can mobilize in the midst of imperial decay.
📖Have a read👉 tinyurl.com/PZ-US-Ven-Ma...
#Venezuela
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

From left to right (Presidents Kagame of Rwanda, Trump of USA, and Tsisikede of the DRC) at the signing of the Rwanda-USA peace accord at USIP, Washington, DC. Image Credits: Al Jazeera English YouTube/Cephas

🔥Cementing the Fraudulent peace and deepening the US military Quandary in Africa.
👉 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹 deconstructs the #Washington #Accords for #Peace and Prosperity
📖Read the full article here: www.pambazuka.org/US-military-...
#US #Rwanda #DRC #M23
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

⚠️In "A Warning: Uvira and Rwanda’s De Facto Annexation of Eastern DRC,"
👉𝗥𝘂𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘄𝗮 offers a critical analysis of the #M23 capture of #Uvira amid the signing of the #US-brokered #peace deal between #Rwanda and #DRC.
📖Read more at www.pambazuka.org/Rwanda-DRC-P...
#FreeCongo
@malangwa.bsky.social

🇸🇩 More than 500 academics and cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for a global academic and cultural boycott of institutions based in or funded by the United Arab Emirates over its role in Sudan’s war. Signatories include Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Françoise Vergès, Hatem Bazian, and Mona Chalabi, with the list continuing to grow. More 👇🧵

🇸🇩 More than 500 academics & cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for a global academic and cultural boycott of institutions based in or funded by the United Arab Emirates over its role in Sudan’s war. Signatories include Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore...

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