Ah, good old journalistic standards, I see #AfricaIsACountry is doing the rounds again 😔

"The fabrics that Bridget uses are all 100% cotton. They are sourced from various regions in Africa, either directly from the country, or from suppliers based in the UK that trade with Africa, which is Bridget’s home country."

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/womans-colourful-new-stall-plymouth-8637327

Amber Sweat at #AfricaIsACountry on the question of which children's childhoods are protected and idealised, and which are not.'The idea of the child as a universally protected figure requires a critical eye, especially as the dimensions of childhood have been ever-plastic and fluid, molded by colonial histories that empires are nowadays seeking to erase.' #France #Racism #colonialism #Literature #NahelM https://africasacountry.com/2023/07/the-lost-promise-of-childhood

We hebben, helaas, opnieuw een winnaar voor #africaisacountry

William Shoki #AfricaIsACountry making a spirited defence of the #state in an unusual context: #SouthAfrica Tourism Dept's sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur. 'Sooner rather than later, South Africans must accept that confronting our time’s biggest challenges—energy security and climate change especially—requires a bigger, not smaller government [...] What we need to fight for, is the democratization of the South African state, not its rollback.' #AfricanPolitics https://africasacountry.com/2023/02/everything-the-government-does

Tsogo Kupa's video essay on Ousmane Sembène (soon to be 100!) is first in a series on African filmmakers. #AfricaIsACountry #Sembène https://africasacountry.com/2022/12/sembenes-africa-is-everyones-africa

Buitenkleed met Malinese Bogolanpatroon heet bij Leenbakker 'Malawi' #africaisacountry

"Gregg Mitman’s 'Empire of Rubber' is less a historical reading of Liberia than a history of America and #RacialCapitalism through the lens of a US corporate giant."

https://africasacountry.com/2022/11/the-imperial-forest

#Liberia #Mitman #rubber #AfricaIsACountry #EmpireOfRubber #envhist