Joshua Ramisch (il/he/him)
@JoshuaRamisch
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Development Studies - Kenya, Mali, UK, Canada - Food, cellphones, rural-urban migration, motorbikes - Nerdistic eye for details & backstories - Opinions my own
Ottawa (Anishinabe aki)
Joined February 2014
FULLY FUNDED SCHOLARSHIPS IN 2026-2027 1. Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship 2026 (Fully Funded) https://t.co/Mp2sItV8cf 2. Cambridge University Gate Scholarship In UK (Fully Funded) https://t.co/Ax4zg2QR7u 3. Bristol University Think Big Scholarships In UK 2026 (Fully
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, 🇪🇺 List of Erasmus Mundus Opportunities in Europe ( Fully Funded) https://t.co/98syBO1i4C - Master’s Scholarships - Fully Funded Programs - Joint Degree Opportunities - Study Across EUROPE Best wishes.
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If you want to work with the UN, this opportunity is for you. UNESCO is hiring remote Research Consultants Eligibility: - A Master’s degree or equivalent in Education, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related field - At least two years of relevant research or analytical
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Junior research consultants for the Global Education Monitoring Report (multiple positions)
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Must see! Wahenga was Sanaa. Now on at Nairobi National Museum. Exhibition sponsored by @MuseumSociety
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It’s another day and no official statement from @GWR in regards to Kenya’s 22-year-old Truphena Muthoni attempt to break her own world record by hugging an indigenous palm tree for 72 hours non-stop outside Nyeri County. February 2025, Muthoni — environmentalist, climate
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Catch me on BBC news tonight, as I speak about the victory on Kenyan seed case. At 9:00pm Kenyan time. Kenyan farmers are free to save,share, exchange and sell their indigenous seeds. We won!!! #Seedsovereignty
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Seed sovereignty reigns in Kenya! Punitive sections of the seed and plant varieties act , have been declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the High Court in Machakos. Farmers are free to save,share, and exchange their indigenous seeds. One of my best work's ever for my country Kenya
Kenyan Smallholders farmers should not be punished by law for sharing,selling and exchanging indigenous seeds. #Seedsovereignty @FoodSovIreland @Greenpeaceafric @GRAIN_org
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For all that you do on farming, Seeds sovereignty etc sensitization, for all you have done so far and more, thank you @MissNasike. Na ahsanteni sana @LawSocietyofKe! This is a historic win for Kenyan Farmers.
Breaking news: WE WON! The Kenya Seed and Plants Varieties Act, which threatened to fine and jail farmers for sharing uncertified seeds, has been declared unconstitutional! Farmers break into celebration at the offices of Greenpeace Africa, which sponsored the case
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Breaking news: WE WON! The Kenya Seed and Plants Varieties Act, which threatened to fine and jail farmers for sharing uncertified seeds, has been declared unconstitutional! Farmers break into celebration at the offices of Greenpeace Africa, which sponsored the case
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of watching the plastering of the Sankoré Mosque in Timbuktu via video call. My contact Bagnah sent me these photos, which I wanted to share with you. Through the live video call, I was able to see how traditional masons mixed clay soil with
Stripping the facades of the Djingareber Mosque for the annual plastering, which coincides with the celebration of the mosque's 700th anniversary this year. I still can't believe I took the risk to visit this mosque two months ago. But it was definitely worth it. Photo credit:
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Geolocated videos from the scenes, audio forensic analysis of the shots fired and first-hand accounts from witnesses and victims document the brutality unleashed on young demonstrators following the re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan – who claimed she won with 98% of
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Opinion: I survived the post-election violence in Tanzania. To move forward, honesty must come first /via @globeandmail
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The rupture has shaken the country’s sense of stability and exposed a deeper fragility beneath our democratic façade
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This Economist piece on the world being on the verge of a geothermal energy breakthrough has simply intensified my hatred of the "solar revolution" going on in poor countries. Rant 🧵
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Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor. https://t.co/Eef4uzV0Hw
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There’s big money in sending poor workers abroad. Here’s how the economics work.
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I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. https://t.co/WJqVU0pznc
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Once upon a time, I told my mother that I wanted to be a matatu tout. I must have been six or seven—too young to understand what work really was, yet old enough to admire the loud confidence of those men hanging from the sides of village face-me junks, calling out destinations
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Just for fun, it's time to rewatch Mississipi Masala, the debut film directed by Mira Nair, mother of Zohran Mamdani. A young Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury. Underrated on-screen romance of the early '90s!
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Now is a good time to remember that Dick Cheney's post 9/11 wars killed (conservatively) 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million more, according to a study by Brown University.
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Current status in Tanzania from those that are there is that the government is presently hunting activists and opposition figures like antelopes. In efforts to hide the bloodbath, the Tanzanian government has embarked on an exercise to bury the dead in mass graves using body
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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