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Dr Amber Murrey

@ambermurrey.bsky.social
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Intellectual working on dissent & protest, Thomas Sankara, extraction, geopolitics of knowledge; Associate Prof @ Oxford Geography, Fulbright Scholar in Cameroon, author @ Pluto Press, editor @ African Geographical Review, advisory member @ Pambazuka News

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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Ahead of Cameroon’s Presidential Elections this Sunday, I’ve published a new piece in Dialogues on Digital Society examining how lawfare is weaponised to silence online dissent & criticism. 🇨🇲 Digital Authoritarianism and Elite Impunity in Cameroon journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Weaponizing cyber defamation: Digital authoritarianism and elite impunity in Cameroon - Amber Murrey, 2025
This commentary critiques a weaponisation of cyber defamation laws in Cameroon as an instrument of digital authoritarianism and political oppression, highlighti...
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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
NEW EP mikaela nhondo erskog joins us to discuss the terrific Tricontinental dossier on hyperimperialism and how burkina faso, mali, and niger are navigating this new decadent stage of monopoly capitalism in their fight for sovereignty
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Afrique XXI @afriquexxi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🎥 Le chercheur Patrick Belinga Ondoua a regardé #Indomptables, le dernier film de Thomas #Ngijol... Pour lui, "les espaces [du film] ne sont pas des décors : ils sont les cadres actifs d’une réalité sociale camerounaise"⤵️
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Indomptables. Les fractures de la société camerounaise au scalpel
Au-delà du policier salué par la critique en France, Indomptables, le long-métrage de Thomas Ngijol, en salle depuis juin, offre un regard subtil sur les fractures et les instabilités du Cameroun, (…)
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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Biya-Kamto : face-à-face manqué au Cameroun afriquexxi.info/Biya-Kamto-l...
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Biya-Kamto : face-à-face manqué au Cameroun
À 92 ans, dont quarante-trois passés à la tête du pays, Paul Biya se présente pour un huitième mandat consécutif à l’élection présidentielle du 12 octobre. Maurice Kamto, le principal candidat de (…)
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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The calculated exclusion of opposition leaders from #Cameroon’s upcoming presidential election is a consequence of more than four decades of deliberate authoritarian political architecture: www.pambazuka.org/Political-Re... @pambazukanews.bsky.social
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Political Repression in the Lead Up to Cameroon’s October 2025 Presidential Election | Pambazuka News
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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
🔥Read #Issue903 for instructive contents on imperial restructuring, #Turkey's turn to Africa, the demise of #USAID, #NATO, #DRC-#Barca FC sponsorship deal, and demands for transformation in #Africa. 🖱️Access the contents at: pambazuka.org @malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social
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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The RACE working group of the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Register for The Azeezat Johnson Memorial RACE Pre-Conference Event 2025: tinyurl.com/nhfmv3hp
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Register for The Azeezat Johnson Memorial RACE Pre-Conference Event 2025
Please use the below form to register for this event, and direct any questions to Charden Pouo Moutsouka at charden.pouomoutsouka@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Date/Time: Tuesday 26 August, 10:00–12:30, followed by l...
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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
An excellent discussion of Musab Younis’ book, “On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought” - online at Antipode antipodeonline.org/2025/03/18/o...
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Book Review Forum — Musab Younis’ “On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought” - Antipode Online
Joseph Ward (University of Oxford) and Alexandra Reza (University of Bristol) on Musab Younis’ On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought—with a response from the author Re...
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Dr Amber Murrey @ambermurrey.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My work with Prof Sharlene Mollett, "Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics" is one of the #TopCitedPapers in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers @wiley.com - read it shorturl.at/jg6oI #geography
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Pambazuka imerudi! great relaunch of a beloved platform. @udadisi.bsky.social #afripolsky www.pambazuka.org/Welcome-Back...
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Welcome Back to Pambazuka News | Pambazuka News
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