African pioneers
These are people that have had an influence in elevating Africaโs online visibility since OG Twitter in 2009.
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@tmsruge.bsky.social
@meowtree.bsky.social
Responsible data, digital ethics, safeguarding, trust + safety, privacy. Human rights, global dev, humanitarian work. MERL Tech, NLP-CoP, NYC Tech Salon. CIPP-E/CIPM certified. Brooklyn, cats, gardening, biking. She/her.
@kobia.dev
Startups, Open source, Tech, ๐บ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ช Building the Family Operating System at Trustworthy https://trustworthy.com #startups, #tech, #atlanta, #kenya, #africa, #housemusic
@bankelele.bsky.social
Chats on banking, finance, investing, aviation & motorsports in Africa. Blog on hiatus: https://bankelele.co.ke Podcast: Motor Life F1.
@billynkid.bsky.social
๐ฎ Quest objective: AWS TAM by day, Lvl 99 Dad always ๐ป When not engineering solutions, you may find me Gaming ๐ค Techie. Foodie. Learning Swahili.
@karenattiah.bsky.social
Global. Columnist at Washington Post. Artemis = feline guardian. Rogue Radical Professor at Resistance Summer School resistancesummerschool.com Join the Fall Waitlist for Race, Media and International Affairs 101! https://forms.gle/6LoPuLUUjPT6Tang8
@texasinafrica.bsky.social
Political scientist, tired. Development, governance, & conflict in Africa. T1D, Texas Longhorns ๐ค๐ป, & other stuff. I don't share my location on social media. Thanks for not asking! (she/her)
@cobbo3.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, uncertain Afro-futurist, curator, podcaster with The Bad Natives Nairobi-KENYA/Tororo-UGANDA
@kemigisa.bsky.social
Journalist and researcher Elective politics in Eastern Africa and African Feminisms. Plant ๐ชด ๐ฉ๐ฟ โMy role was to do a story and avoid becoming oneโ- James Baldwin
@manypossibilities.net
Local hands building local networks. Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata Day job: https://isoc.org Views my own.
@tmsruge.bsky.social
Founder/CEO: @RT_farms; Creator: @qwezibeauty; Cofounder: @hivecolab; Educated (sometimes) Angry African ๐