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Some excerpts I pulled are below.

with extremely few exceptions, especially outside of southern Africa, scholars of continental Africa do not engage the complex ways that race continues to be significant in this postcolonial moment.

The North–sub-Saharan Africa divide shapes continental and global politics (take, for example, the coverage of the “Arab Spring”). … in treating these two geographical areas as distinct—without the associated analysis of the basis of this distinction—we lose sight of the impact of global racial projects in maintaining such a separation

We need to take bold steps to dismantle the established theoretical, methodological, and epistemological structures that continue to impede race analysis on the African continent.

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/293074

Especially people who mess with metadata. Adding things, fixing things, etc.

!politics so far largely features topics on the internal politics of the united states. I don't see any statements from the Beehaw team suggesting this is intentional or explicit (feel free to correct me if I missed this), so I think it would be good to have such posts mostly go in a separate subcommunity, something for which there's a precedent with !socialism.

I don't interpret this as a ban on anything about the u.s. being mentioned in the general space, just like I don't interpret the existence of !socialism as banning discussions around socialist politics in the general space. I just think it would be an improvement. Curious what others think.

HBDH is "a political-military alliance of ten Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary organisations".

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1215308

Hello,

If I open: https://lemmy.world/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support in 2 different tabs, I don't see the same posts at all, even with the same sorting option selected.

Is it just because the servers are overloaded and there is some delay in the synchronization?

Thanks for your help trying to understanding the fediverse inner working.

So that if you paste a link to one of those big social media platforms, it offers to replace it with a working alternative front-end.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/561669

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