MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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[AFRICA - it's an entire continent & we don't pay enough attention]
By artappraiser on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 3:47pm |
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by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 3:10am
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 3:18am
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:35am
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:39am
..^ he is award winning International Journalist| Film Maker | 2 Time African Journalist of The Year | Africa Leadership FellowI Nieman Fellow| [email protected]
meanwhile now that most Gulf Sunni leaders have stopped using this topic to deflect their masses from their own problems, guess who has picked up on that practice:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:49am
dunno if this is true, just using it as an example how xenophobia about illegal immigrants doesn't just plague "western" nations nor is it exclusive to "whites" against "people of color" -
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:58am
South Africans who can't take the ANC any more again:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 5:03am
oy Tucker Carlson is doing Africa! (I dunno nothing bout this story yet except that Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent @todaynewsafrica in Washington.
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 5:16am
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 2:48am
I suspect it wasn't quite to the level of North Korea - maybe Iraq/Hussein, but that's just a guess. Also, it was 2 countries spliced into 1, which created its own internal animosities. Compare Somalia/Eritrea/Ethiopia, Súdán/South Sudan, Congo, Rwanda/Burundi, Morocco/Western Sahara, Nigeria north & south, etc.
It's a continent with hugely genocidal passions. I felt post-9/11 Qaddafi woke up quick & did a pivot, but no Mideast leader wanted the Arab Spring. And in the end few countries transformed (except Libya for the worse sadly - again combo of historical split, nomad insurgency, Russian & ISIS nfluence, some racism towards black guest workers...). Not sure about Egypt, but doubt it improved much over Mubarak.
Here's some African nuance on Qaddafi plus the full BBC article - again, flawed, sometimes brutal, sometimes more liberal (under Hussein women's volleyball played in shorts as an example of quixotic liberalism that countered hardcore Islamism, but a tiny anecdotal piece of the puzzle) - but still, not North Korean fanaticism by any stretch.
https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/how-bad-was-gaddafi/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12532929
This article posits Qaddafi wasn't even as bad as Hussein & Assad, and that part (not all) of his reputation was fabricated by the West - not entirely unbelievable.
https://www.iestork.org/just-how-tyrannical-was-muammar-gaddafi/
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/17/2023 - 3:09am
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/18/2023 - 1:52am
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/19/2023 - 9:24pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/20/2023 - 2:30pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/25/2023 - 12:59am
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/25/2023 - 1:24am
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/26/2023 - 2:43am
US military raid kills key Islamic State regional leader in Somalia, officials say
Bilal al-Sudani, ‘responsible for fostering the growing presence of IS in Africa’, was killed in strike approved by Joe Biden
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/28/2023 - 10:32am
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 6:03pm
^
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2023 - 6:28pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:07am
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/02/2023 - 11:54pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/07/2023 - 3:36pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 2:13am
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 2:49pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2023 - 1:33pm
Noted!
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 3:12am
Abdi tweeted this
BUT THEN he also retweeted this reply he got:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 3:22am
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 6:06am
'Obidient' is clearly an Obama's first-campaign-style "hope" frenzy
edit to add: also see #ObidientMovement and obidients in lagos
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 2:05pm
Nigeria election polls retweeted by Dr. Remi Adekoya:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/16/2023 - 2:23am
(found retweeted by Nigeria expert Remi Adekoya)
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/18/2023 - 6:34pm
But I thought democracies made up of Black people didn't need any police, which are a White colonialist creation?
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 12:26am
Residual need due to colonialist leftover. In the days of milk and honey, no, it wouldn't have been needed, not that you need ballots to select a new chief - he Selecta himself.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 3:42am
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 6:26am
^ how does Chicago compare?
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/14/2023 - 6:28am
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/17/2023 - 6:35pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:41pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:49pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:43pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:46pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/20/2023 - 2:32pm
ANC has lots of Russia sympathizers in its ranks -
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 4:25am
Analysis: In Russia's push into Africa, Sudan is the strategic prize
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 7:19pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 10:00pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 10:27pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 11:59pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 12:06am
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 12:09am
More clarity - trivial $10m US, already 20+ years, accelerates 10 year payout vs 20 years since affected white farmers already getting old.
Zimbabwe gov doing this cuz IMF won't release other money until they do, not out of kindness or justice.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 7:50am
interesting to know!
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 1:20pm
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/25/2023 - 7:55am
Tweets from Nigerian election showing a whole bunch of people bitching tribally about 'the other' - mostly Yoruba vs. Igbo. Tweets that say "no, I am Nigerian" are few and far between.
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/27/2023 - 2:13am
such a wonderful way with words, just sayin'
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 2:39am
^ found retweeted by Dr. Remi Adekoya, who also tweeted these results, then retweeted T. Rankin's comment:
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 2:42am
"What's the first thing she'll do as 1st lady?" "The dishes if she knows what's good for her."
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 12:52pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 11:55am
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 1:12pm
I keep looking for Stacey Abram to say something, but all I see is Fox News razzing her
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/01/2023 - 4:51pm
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/02/2023 - 4:38am
"Obi: we won the election and we'll prove it"
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/02/2023 - 12:12pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 1:00pm
Dayum, that's pretty ballsy. Wonder how it'll affect other countries plus attitude towards Russians. More popcorn...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 1:31pm
yeah "more popcorn" is how I look at it, too.
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/06/2023 - 3:04pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 5:31pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/05/2023 - 5:37pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/07/2023 - 3:33am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/07/2023 - 3:34am
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/23/2023 - 6:16pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/24/2023 - 9:19pm
Harris heads to Africa amid Biden’s urgent courtship of the continent
The United States seeks to counter efforts by China, Russia and others to woo the continent after the turbulent Trump years
by artappraiser on Sun, 03/26/2023 - 2:17am
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/28/2023 - 5:12am
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/11/2023 - 5:26pm
Africa not homogenous? Who knew
https://www.reuters.com/science/genome-data-sheds-light-how-homo-sapiens...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/21/2023 - 11:43pm
Terrorists take over Kainji National Park
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/27/2023 - 4:36pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/01/2023 - 10:55pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/01/2023 - 3:30am
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 3:04am
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 4:11pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 5:22pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 11:28am
Nuland vs Wagner
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 10:19pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/09/2023 - 6:50am
Thread, starting here
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 2:19am
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 2:26am
Focusing on the rights of criminals is not the path to larger reform - not on - not in Africa, but not in UK, not in US, but not in LatAm - it's a niche cottage industry with natural limits, a hygiene issue per Maslow that doesn't rise to higher society functioning - jobs, education, housing, higher freedoms like political choice and right to speak out. That Sub-Saharan is mired in corruption, violence (tho fewer actual wars these days) and overpopulation is a massive alarm for life and its effecta in 20-50 years. We've been lulled by China's ability, and and to a lesser extent India's, ability to train up its massive overpopulation for manufacturing and IT skills, to be a productive target for foreign investment (not handouts). This isn't happening in Africa. Tribalism is winning, while there's retro cheering for the exploitive self-serving quasi-ocialist colonialism of old. More poverty in the past 30 years has been alleviated through freeish market capitalism than through handouts. War remains destructive and unhelpful, as does "crony capitalism", aka corruption at all levels.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/10/2023 - 3:50am
Race pimps like Cori Bush stay focused on glorifying and lamenting the scummy lowlifes like George Floyd and Mike Brown, and and ignore the more worthy cases of shock and disgust that actually bolster the needs for reform. The Central Park 5 was a travesty. A junkie passing counterfeit money is more an accident waiting to happen.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/10/2023 - 4:00am
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 2:59pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 3:04pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 3:07pm
Next after Gabon?
by artappraiser on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 3:20pm
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 11:07pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/01/2023 - 9:55pm
Wagner threat in Africa - but what happens after Prigozhin?
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:45am
...While the complaint does not state what country he was spying on behalf of, sources told The New York Times he was spying for Ethiopia....
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/21/2023 - 9:22pm