The Continent
The Continent is an award-winning weekly newspaper produced by African journalists, photographers, illustrators and editors. Free on 👇
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The Continent’s Contributors
These are some of the people who have contributed to The Continent. The list will be updated.
@afrobarometer.bsky.social
The world’s leading source of high-quality data & analysis on what Africans are thinking. Research network, headquarters in Accra, partners in 40 African countries.
@pplaaf.bsky.social
The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens. https://www.pplaaf.org/
@occrp.org
We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account. Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.
@apache.be
Apache stelt op scherp. Apache zoekt naar de waarheid, roept de macht ter verantwoording en inspireert. Onafhankelijk, diepgravend en kritisch.
@africa.skyfleet.blue
Agrégateur Média sur l'Afrique focus Congo, Mali, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire et l'Afrique en général
@zammagazine.bsky.social
The best of investigative journalism & art from Africa & beyond. We serve as a platform to introduce the work of African creatives and journalists to international audiences and build international alliances and solidarity. https://www.zammagazine.com/
@wynonamutisi.bsky.social
✏️ Professional drawer 🗄️ | 👩🏾🎨 Designer 🖍️ @thecontinent.org
@documented.net
Documented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable. Documented.net
@lighthousereports.com
Radically collaborative journalism. Working with the world’s leading media on deeply reported, public interest investigations. http://bit.ly/LHR-newsletter
@zoeflood.bsky.social
Journalist/filmmaker – www.zoeflood.com/about2 3x BBC Eye Investigations, 9/11: Inside the President's War Room and more. Posts 🗞️🎞️🌍📸🗺️📚📝💆🏼♀️🌳🏊🏻♀️ and more. Made/refined 🇬🇧🇿🇼🇦🇺🇧🇪🇰🇪 Lifetime vegetarian 🌱
@kalaharireview.bsky.social
@democracyinafrica.bsky.social
Delivering in-depth analysis, the latest news, interviews, and data on African politics. 🔗 linktr.ee/dia_affairs
@mambaonline.bsky.social
Southern Africa's leading LGBTQ+ news and community platform. 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQ
@parinstitute.bsky.social
PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
@onecampaign.bsky.social
ONE fights for a more just world by demanding the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa. https://www.one.org/
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@tomcourtright.bsky.social
Bodas, e-mobility, transport, cities in Uganda, elsewhere PhD student @ UCT Boda research @ Lubyanza E-mobility @ AfEMA
@darren.africandefence.net
Director at African Defence Review (@africandefence) Covering African conflicts with a specific focus on Southern Africa. Email: dolivier@africandefence.net Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/9yYQ7ONQJ8KYa71byz4avvZuSICtMLWim0AlDOYqYwwZhOSZaVpGKLUzYPBqrJAM
@opensecrets.org.za
Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power. https://linktr.ee/opensecrets_za
@isabellakaminski.bsky.social
Freelance journalist: climate litigation, climate justice, environmental law, biodiversity, Wombles Contact: isabellakamfreelance@gmail(dot)com Climate litigation newsletter: http://www.the-wave.net
@reuters.com
@carteblanche.co.za
📺 Watch #CarteBlanche every Sunday at 7pm on M-Net, DStv channel 101 ▶️ Watch it all at www.carteblanche.co.za 📢 Truth Brings Change 📧 Tell us your story - http://bit.ly/CBTipOffs
@voaafrica.com.web.brid.gy
VOA Africa has the latest news from the African continent and the world in English at voaafrica.com/africa. [bridged from https://voaafrica.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/voaafrica.com ]
@hennievanvuuren.bsky.social
Open Secrets | Open Sesame Stop: graft/grift/greed. For secure messaging and tipoffs - pls contact me on Signal. www.opensecrets.org.za
@socialmovetech.bsky.social
Campaign support for people power movements and groups across the world. Follow to hear about free and paid training and coaching, reading groups for organizing wisdom, and great organizing. https://socialmovementtechnologies.org
@brodiegal.bsky.social
South African journalist and academic. teaching/researching/publishing on media, journalism, archives, public health, data & research methods. Strong sideline in homicide studies and forensic pathology. Writes books and sings songs.
@moniango.bsky.social
Journalist & Documentary Filmmaker| Published on National Geographic, The Guardian, NowThis, Africa Uncensored, The Continent, Rest of World & others | Columbia Journalism School alum | Journalism Fellow ‘22 Reuters Institute | 📍NY/NBO
@dfrlab.bsky.social
The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Cultivating a global network of digital forensic analysts (#DigitalSherlocks) to combat disinformation.
@timcafrica.bsky.social
Climate research editor at Africa Confidential, Scotland. Bonus late night musings about cinema and buildings. Views are my own, not my employers' (obviously). 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️🗽
@kalungikabuye.bsky.social
photo journalist/fashion photographer/writer/published poet. Rotarian “I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
@unbiasthenews.bsky.social
We`re an award-winning feminist cross-border newsroom creating journalism that strives to be truthful, not neutral. Unbias the News is run by Hostwriter, a journalistic network for cross-border collaboration. Discover here: https://unbiasthenews.org
@oli4vb.bsky.social
Investigative journalist & author of "Heineken in Africa" and "Entrepreneurs in the wild" | winner Tegel | Publications: FTM, Groene Amsterdammer, The Guardian, Le Monde, Mediapart, The Continent | oli4vb at gmail.com
@neilmunshi.bsky.social
Africa Editor for Bloomberg in Nairobi. Ex- @FT. OPC winner. Orwell Prize shortlist. Ex-Lagos, BKLN, CHI, BOM (Meri Jaan), DEL, MPLS. Born in MKE.
@tommymiles.bsky.social
West African history enthusiast, socialist, football fan. Independent scholar, author, recovering academic. Reading history of Niger, Mali, & Glasgow Celtic. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwncv7cLB7I/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
@julianrademeyer.bsky.social
Director - East & Southern Africa, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. www.globalinitiative.net Author of 'Killing for Profit’. Formerly at TRAFFIC and Africa Check. Views my own.
@michelawrong.bsky.social
Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
@tomgardner18.bsky.social
Africa correspondent @TheEconomist Author, "The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia” Retweet ≠ endorsement / views my own Still on X (for now) @tomgardner18
@fromagehomme.bsky.social
Prof of Democracy, Director @CEDAR_Bham at @unibirmingham, founder @AfricaDemocracy, columnist @TheAfricaReport, collab with @thecontinent_, retwts not...
@beverlyochieng.bsky.social
Books | Sahel coup watcher | Wagner Group stalker | Senior Analyst, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | Senior Associate, CSIS Africa | occasional typos, usual disclaimers Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
@hararereview.bsky.social
✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist. https://linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks 📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, etc (Incidentally, also @shonatiger.bsky.social)
@mininghistory.bsky.social
Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa. More on https://duncan.money Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me