RT @freedlander: This is one of the best political ads I’ve ever seen.

The African Literature Association is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Nairobi in June 2025. CFP for the annual conference can be found here: @AfricanLitAssoc.

RT @NYMag: Under Eric Adams, New York City is in its brazenly transactional era of government. Frank Carone is its master practitioner. htt….

Thrilled to be co-organizing a MLA panel on the continued dominance of the historical novel in African literature with the indomitable @farahbakaari . Please share widely!

RT @psc_qc: Yesterday the Queens College #CUNY Provost instructed all chairs to fire 26 people in substitute lines. 26 people have lost s….

RT @WesleyanAAUP: Look Ma, we're in the paper! . Wesleyan faculty: University can afford to give tenure to adjuncts

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If the @amnh can update their Thanksgiving diorama then isn't about time they deal with their diorama on the Pokot people of East Africa?

RT @dan_sinykin: Are there journalists out there who have started investigating WVU's mismanagement yet? The administration lost millions a….

On the dangerous temporality of the scholarly life: “the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem to have freedom you become a servant. Your main issue is to get promoted to the next thing. Or get invited to a picnic” (Gerald Stern).

Today's @nytimes piece on Suriname--INFLATION IS 60%, peaking at 74% in 2021--shows how postcolonial nations continue to be trapped by debt arrangements concocted by world powers (in this case US and China)

Stephanie Black's film "Life & Debt" takes Kincaid's book further, applying its observations about tourism to her analysis of the damage done by the IMF's structural adjustment programs.

Jamaica Kincaid gets the first and last word on tourism tyvm.

RT @RankaPrimorac: Calling for proposals: AFRICAN REALISMS & RELATED FORMS, the second @ahrcpress Textual Worlds of South-Eastern Africa Ne….

RT @DukeAAAS: "Still, it is The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born that remains to me the most richly, unsettlingly poignant of the novels bec….

RT @WesleyanAAUP: Congratulations to all the graduates this weekend @wesleyan_u ! . Your AAUP chapter continues to advocate for improved fa….

RT @freedlander: Inside City Hall as they face their first and greatest test: dealing with the tens of thousands of migrants who keep arriv….

RT @bhakti_shringa: Off to an incredible start at @AfricanLitAssoc conference in Knoxville — @LilyLSaint & I bringing in a 3-panel, 12-pers….

RT @bhakti_shringa: You know there's serious deadlines afoot when you start leaning hard into the social media algorithm that knows you too….

RT @WesleyanAAUP: Congrats to Wesleyan students for getting the university to cover costs of student abortions & emergency contraception ht….