#AFRICA

Zikhona Valela

valavoosh

Yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the end of District Six by way of forced removals, an area that was established in 1867 and home to a

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

GOOD NEWS—a mutation seen in a few #SARSCoV2 variants doesn’t seem to harm the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, finding “no reduction in neutralization activity against virus”.HOWEVER—did not yet test for worrisome E484K

Susitha Wanigaratne, PhD

SusithaWanigar

New @ICESOntario report, led by Dr. Astrid Guttmann, coauthored by myself, numerous colleagues and scientists, looked at COVID-19 in immigrants in Ontario using pop-based admin data. With imp. contributions by

Peter Harling

PeterHarling

THREAD Infectious diseases have long shaped our culture—in ways you can trace through mentions of a disease in our literature. Here we see declining references to the plague in English

Matt Swagler

lesindesirables

In 1957, Martin Luther King, Jr. went to Ghana, as the country celebrated the end of British colonial rule. He engaged with and spoke frequently about Africa anti-colonial movements for

Junia

mjstainbank

Imagine you own a t-shirt company, and 1,000 reps offer to repair, repackage and sell your used and factory default t-shirts for marginally lower-income consumers in over 200 cities. They

Fake History Hunter

fakehistoryhunt

I wasn't going to bother but I'm getting so many requests, I'll make a very short thread on it.Beethoven was not black.This idea appears to be based some people thinking

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

ReichlinMelnick

Sitting down to work for the first day of the Biden presidency is a surreal feeling.So much happened yesterday. I'm going to collect my threads here on yesterday's big immigration

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Recent estimates (including our analysis led by @timwrussell: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000256) have suggested 0.5–1% of COVID-19 infections may potentially be fatal overall. Some have inter

Arunabha Sengupta

senantix

Thread: 170 wickets at 25.91, with a miserly economy rate of 1.94. Often unplayable, mostly unhittable.The greatest off-spinner the #cricket world has seen alongside Jim Laker. Hugh Tayfield was born

Arthur Asseraf

ArthurAsseraf

Hey kids, do you want to learn more about Algiers? It’s time for our second walk!Today, we’ll be starting again on the Place des Martyrs, but walking in the opposite

🕯 Mitchell Mhlanga 🇱🇸

MimiReeds

Did you know: African History..:In the 1780s Liverpool-based vessels alone carried more than 300,000 Africans into slavery. By 1795 Liverpool controlled over 60 per cent of the British and over

Fidato

tequieremos

On this day in 1922, the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished after ruling for 600 years. At its peak, it included what is now Bulgaria, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel,

Dr. X

XKeyscore1

1) .@EricTrump .@DonaldJTrumpJr They r protesting #BillGates in multiple countries, he gave polio to 400,000 children in India via his poisonous vaccines, he has warrants out for his arrests for

Opium Tales (Povești de Opiu) 🇺🇸

romanopiumtales

MORE AMERICAN LEGENDS I've discussed many times that the way to destroy a culture is to destroy her history and her languageGive the conquered people nothing to remember and no

Allan Cudicio

AllanCudicio

(1/20)Personal Black History Thread (or "More insights in why I abandoned a cushy corporate career"). How an African God led me to discoveries about complex family slavery history and boosted

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