Melina Platas
Political scientist (NYU Abu Dhabi), writer, mom. Current research on education, health, and air quality in Africa. Home is California, Kampala, and Abu Dhabi.
More here: melinaplatas.com
@evlieb.bsky.social
Political science professor, Director of MIT Center for International Studies and Global Diversity Lab. I study democratic governance, climate policy, ethnic politics, mostly in Africa.
@timlongman.bsky.social
Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad. 2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
@jrspringman.bsky.social
Research professor at UPenn doing applied work on democracy, climate, and development. I produce data, run RCTs & survey experiments, and forecast things. Former Duke postdoc. UPenn PhD. Pitt alum. jrspringman.github.io
@rtapscott.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR, University of Glasgow. Studying political violence, authoritarianism, research ethics governance (IRBs!) and Uganda. Also reviews editor at Civil Wars.
@pgourevitch.bsky.social
Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
@leecrawfurd.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development https://www.cgdev.org/expert/lee-crawfurd
@hofrench.bsky.social
Author, most recently of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, journalist, professor, columnist at Foreign Policy. Coming soon, "The Second Emancipation." See here: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
@dadakim.bsky.social
Teach/research/write African politics & pandemics. Editor in Chief, Good Authority https://bsky.app/profile/goodauth.bsky.social Host, Ufahamu Africa Podcast https://bsky.app/profile/ufahamuafrica.bsky.social
@sjzimmerman.bsky.social
Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking
@kvlassen.bsky.social
Director of Conflict Research Group • Professor at Ghent University • civil war • armed groups • international intervention • cycling
@rachelstrohm.bsky.social
African politics & social protection | Africa Update newsletter http://bit.ly/AfrUpdate | Scholarships http://bit.ly/AfrScholar | London/Chicago/Nairobi | Opinions my own | http://rachelstrohm.com
@rosebellk.bsky.social
Pan-African feminist writer and media specialist. Editor @afrifeminists.bsky.social Cofounder @afipcollective.bsky.social Columnist @newint.bsky.social
@barrymalone.bsky.social
Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Past: EP The Stream / Digital Editor Al Jazeera English / Reuters in Africa and Middle East. Jackeen.
@geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Johannesburg-based correspondent for The Globe and Mail since 2009. Previously 15 years as a correspondent in Moscow and Beijing. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/geoffrey-york/
@ckyobutungi.bsky.social
#Bosslady at APHRC (http://www.aphrc.org)/ | Aspiring Feminist | Global Health | #DGH | Epi | #NCDs | "No one is free until everyone is free" | Editor-in-Chief Plos Global Public Health | co-Director of CARTA (https://cartafrica.org/)
@cobbo3.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
@annareuss.bsky.social
From #SouthSudan, #Uganda & the wider #HornofAfrica to #WestAfrica & #Sahel: now based in Dakar for FES #Africa Dpt's Peace and Security Center.
@kalungikabuye.bsky.social
photo journalist/fashion photographer/writer/published poet. Rotarian “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
@rakidi.bsky.social
Journalist | News Junkie | Past: BBC Senior News Editor & Head of East Africa | Now: Senior Media Consultant & Strategist | All things Africa
@mariaburnett.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer @CSISAfrica, Ex-@HRW Africa, @YLS, believer in compassionate release, social movements, activism & keeping up w motherhood at the same time…
@rachaelmclellan.bsky.social
Opposition and local politics in autocracies. Dundonian in exile on the West Coast (of Scotland).
@tomcourtright.bsky.social
Bodas, e-mobility, transport, cities in Uganda, elsewhere PhD student @ UCT Boda research @ Lubyanza E-mobility @ AfEMA
@fbrissetfo.bsky.social
Academic at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Political thought, media, citizenship and regime change in Africa, with a v. soft spot for Uganda 🫶 🇺🇬.
@lseblogs.bsky.social
The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science. Explore our website 🖥 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/ Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 http://eepurl.com/iwXSu-/
@naunihal.bsky.social
Professor, writer, magpie, bad at introducing myself. Author of "Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups" All views my own and not those of my employer or anybody else.
@bwesigye.bsky.social
Nyanja born and raised living in Los Angeles. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. Afro-nationalist.
@africasacountry.bsky.social
Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
@princeguma.bsky.social
Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
@namlyd.bsky.social
Queer. African. Feminist. Editor-in-Chief, The Continent: Here: @thecontinent.org WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal Telegram: t.me/continentnews Email: [email protected] Website: thecontinent.org
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@kemigisa.bsky.social
Journalist and researcher Elective politics in Eastern Africa and African Feminisms. Plant 🪴 👩🏿 “My role was to do a story and avoid becoming one”- James Baldwin
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
@smconstantino.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦
@timfrye.bsky.social
Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Political economy, autocracy, and the NBA, and not always in that order. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia.
@alexandermlee.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science. South Asia, Historical Political Economy, blueberries.
@mclem.org
Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively. Web: http://mclem.org ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
@jblabonne.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Oxford julienlabonne.wordpress.com
@sarahbrierley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor LSE Government | Bureaucracy, Corruption, Elections, Campaigns, African politics.