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Femke van Zeijl

@femkevanzeijl.bsky.social
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Dutch #journalist /writer/photographer based in #Lagos, #Nigeria. 4th book, Do-It-Yourself Society: on life in Lagos to be published in Nigeria in 2026. www.fvz-journaliste.nl/?lang=en

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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 19h
"From Niger Delta to the Omani desert to the arid plains of Patagonia, companies are trumpeting success even as their flares burn day in and day out" - Investigation Bloomberg News/The Examination: gas flaring increased worldwide despite oil industry's promises. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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The Oil Industry Won’t Stop One of Its Dirtiest Practices, Even After Pledges
Exxon, Occidental and Diamondback are among those touting efforts to end routine gas flaring, but their flames keep spewing pollution around the world.
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NRC @nrc.nl · 30/04/2026
Nigeriaanse migranten die vanuit Libië vrijwillig terugkeerden werd een startkapitaal beloofd. In de stad Kano proberen ze met beperkte middelen een nieuw leven te beginnen. "Zonder dat geld was ik weer vertrokken."
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Teruggekeerde Nigeriaanse migranten bouwen met financiële steun een nieuw bestaan op. ‘Zonder dat geld was ik weer vertrokken’
Terugkeerprogramma’s: Nigeriaanse migranten die vanuit Libië vrijwillig terugkeerden werd in 2022 een startkapitaal in het vooruitzicht gesteld. In de stad Kano proberen sommigen met beperkte middelen een nieuw leven te beginnen. „Ik ben in het land waar God me geschapen heeft.”
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 27/12/2025
Het openlijke racisme dat tijdens Fortuyn ‘on-Hollands’ werd genoemd, is nu mainstream, ziet columnist @nadiabouras.bsky.social: Nederland moet afkicken van zijn etnische obsessie om nog meer morele afstomping te voorkomen. ’Houd geen debat over de ‘veranderde buurt’, maar over betaalbare woningen.'
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Columnist Nadia Bouras: ‘‘Ik herken mijn buurt niet meer’ is het nieuwe ‘vol is vol’’
Het openlijke racisme dat tijdens Fortuyn 'on-Hollands' werd genoemd, is nu mainstream, ziet columnist Nadia Bouras: Nederland moet afkicken van zijn etnische obsessie om te voorkomen dat 2026 óók…
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
We asked who the Nigerian man in this picture was, taken on the market in Bergen, Norway. With help of Legacy1995.ng subscribers we found his offspring. In a heritage webinar on stockfish on Dec 18, a son of importer Alh. Ade Kasumu will share memories of his father. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On a large pile of stockfish with a fjord and mountain in the back, three white men are standing and one Nigerian man dressed in a flowing agbada.
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Many Nigerian dishes are unthinkable without stockfish and Nigerians are the world’s biggest consumers. But where does the dried cod come from and what’s the history behind it? Norwegian food writer Andreas Delsett about the ties between Norway and Nigeria: www.updates.legacy1995.ng/2025/12/11/l...
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Ilebani Titilayo Olamide @titiolami.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Surulere residents protest a proposed cemetery project, citing health, environmental, and safety concerns over its proximity to homes and schools. nigeriaupdates.com/tension-in-s...
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Annoying to have to respond to nonsense over and over again in this populism ruled news cycle. When are we going to address what is actually going on? But first, let me explain- in Dutch - why there is a lot deadly wrong in Nigeria, but no genocide on Christians. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/b...
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Trump dreigt met militaire actie Nigeria
In Nigeria worden christenen massaal afgeslacht door moslimextremisten, zo claimt Donald Trump. Volgens de Amerikaanse president is er een genocide gaande. Hij dreigt daarom niet alleen met een milita...
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Maartje Luif @zezunja.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Links weer kleiner. David Van Reybrouck said it best when he said:
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A global strike against "empire" is, according to @saulwilliams.bsky.social, the way out of capitalism and oppression. Yet, the American artist-who will perform at Le Guess Who? On November 8-doesn't call his work activism, but art. "All art that matters speaks out." www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/s...
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Amerikaanse activistische artiest Saul Williams roept op: ‘Staak!’
Hij noemt zijn werk geen activisme, maar kunst. Toch laat multitalent Saul Williams weinig heel van de westerse wereldorde – Nederland in het bijzonder. De Amerikaanse rapper, dichter en filmmaker - d...
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 30/10/2025
Een mondiale staking tegen ‘empire’, dat is volgens @saulwilliams.bsky.social de weg uit kapitalisme en onderdrukking. Toch noemt de Amerikaanse artiest - die 8 november optreedt op Le Guess Who? Festival - zijn werk geen activisme, maar kunst. ‘Alle kunst die ertoe doet, spreekt zich uit.’
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Amerikaanse activistische artiest Saul Williams roept op: ‘Staak!’
Hij noemt zijn werk geen activisme, maar kunst. Toch laat multitalent Saul Williams weinig heel van de westerse wereldorde – Nederland in het bijzonder. De Amerikaanse rapper, dichter en filmmaker -…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/10/2025
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Awful finding in a new study: airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating food in Nigeria. Reminds me of when I went to the Brazilian Amazon in 2019 and found that mercury miners were dumping in river tributaries was making Indigenous villagers sick. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Invisible poison: Airborne mercury from gold mining is contaminating African food crops, new study warns
New research reveals airborne mercury from unregulated gold mining is contaminating African food crops directly through the leaves, not the soil, as previously thought. This urgent finding shows plant...
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Jah @fistfuloffries.blacksky.app · 21/10/2025
Much like colonizing museums claim about African artifacts held in European and American collections, if the Louvre cannot properly take care of its possessions, perhaps another nation can. I heard the Benin Royal Museum in Nigeria may have a space.
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Last time I was at Shoprite, they didn't have black tea... What I miss in this analysis is comparison: how come that all Spars I know are thriving, with local products, great veggies and a lot of imported stuff as well?
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Premium Times @premiumtimes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Shoprite Nigeria struggling under new owners as shelves go empty, stores close  www.premiumtimesng.com/business/bus…
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 30/09/2025
De Marokkaans-Nederlandse dichter Asmae Amaddaou (23) kaart in haar poëzie de haat aan waar ‘bruine meisjes’, zoals zij, mee te maken krijgen. Zaterdag treedt ze op tijdens de Nacht van de Poëzie. ‘In Nederland geboren worden is een zegening, maar het is ook een giftig land.’ buff.ly/BK4WaK4
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Poëzietalent Asmae Amaddaou (23): ‘Ik ken Nederland alleen als een vijandig land’
Rijzende ster in de poëzie Asmae Amaddaou (23) werd vlak na 9/11 geboren. Al op haar twaalfde deed de Marokkaans-Nederlandse dichter aangifte tegen Wilders’ ‘minder, minder’-uitspraak. Ondanks dat ze…
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
She was the 1st woman on the FBI's infamous wanted list, but activists worldwide saw Black revolutionary Assata Shakur—a fugitive for over forty years who died this week—as a courageous inspiration and victim of the racist American political system. | @oneworld.nl www.oneworld.nl/mensenrechte...
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Waarom je de revo­lutio­naire activist Assata Shakur (1947-2025) moet kennen
Ze was de eerste vrouw op de beruchte FBI-lijst van gezochte terroristen, maar of dat terecht is? Activisten wereldwijd zien in de Zwarte revolutionair Assata Shakur – al meer dan veertig jaar voortvl...
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Maartje Luif @zezunja.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Prachtig nummer weer @seadanourhussen.bsky.social @oneworld.nl
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
"Every version of me knows that education, health care, housing, clean water, and sufficient food are rights and not privileges. (...)Yet to say these things is (in my view) really to say the bare minimum: it is almost saying nothing at all." @zadiesmith.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.
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Nikki Sterkenburg @sterknikki.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Over de mediaberichtgeving van afgelopen weekend. Wanneer demonstranten Hitlergroeten brengen en extreemrechtse leuzen roepen, is terughoudendheid in het gebruik van de term ‘extreemrechts’ niet gepast www.linkedin.com/posts/nikkis...
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Rob Witte | Nikki Sterkenburg
Na de eerste golf van berichtgeving waarin werd gesproken over 'relschoppers' en 'hooligans', ben ik erg blij met de bijdragen van Guus Valk en Léonie de Jonge (linkjes hieronder aan het einde van de ...
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MediocreMigrant @seadanourhussen.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
We kunnen blijven klagen over verrechtsing v media - maar ze doen wat zij (of de aandeelhouders) willen - of echt onafhankelijke alternatieven steunen. Júist nu. Hebben jullie een (digitaal of papieren) abonnement op OneWorld? Of je in ieder geval geabonneerd op de gratis OneWorld nieuwsbrief?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Rarely mentioned in Dutch history books, Boni is a hero in Suriname. Tessa Leuwsha wrote a book about the18th century freedom fighter who, from the swamps of Suriname, resisted the Dutch colonizers. "It shapes your identity when you know heroes from your own history." www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/t...
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Schrijver Tessa Leuwsha: ‘Boni’s verzet is lang onder de mat gemoffeld’
In Nederlandse geschiedenisboeken komt hij amper voor, maar in Suriname is Boni een held. Schrijver Tessa Leuwsha schreef een boek over de achttiende-eeuwse vrijheidsstrijder die zich vanuit het moera...
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mojubaolu.bsky.social @mojubaolu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
More on the jolloff rice chronicles... Very few people know, but I'm a jolloff rice snob. Mine is extraordinary. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hilda Baci: Nigerian chef breaks world record for largest jollof rice dish
Guinness World Records confirms the achievement, saying the rice weighed in at a staggering 8,780kg.
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Well written piece by Gbemidepo Popoola in @premiumtimes.bsky.social about the tragic death of Finidi George's youngest brother in 1995: "He was rushed to a nearby Ibadan hospital. But what followed exposed a tragedy larger than one boy." www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/footb...
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
One brother lifted the Champions League; the other died on a stadium road because a hospital could not provide water. 30 years ago a stray bullet hit the spine of Igeniwari George, a promising Nigerian footballer. Then Nigeria's systemic failures killed him. www.premiumtimesng.com/sports/footb...
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 11/09/2025
In Nederlandse geschiedenisboeken komt hij amper voor, maar in Suriname is hij een held: Boni, de vrijheidsstrijder die zich verzette tegen de Nederlandse kolonisator. In haar boek Boni, dat vanmiddag de PrinsjesBoekenprijs 2025 kan winnen, gaat schrijver Tessa Leuwsha op zoek naar zijn verleden.
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Schrijver Tessa Leuwsha: ‘Boni’s verzet is lang onder de mat gemoffeld’ - OneWorld
In Nederlandse geschiedenisboeken komt hij amper voor, maar in Suriname is Boni een held. Schrijver Tessa Leuwsha schreef een boek over de achttiende-eeuwse vrijheidsstrijder die zich vanuit het…
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It is a big gap in understanding to not be able to (at the very least) draw parallels between the logics of colonialism, fascism, apartheid and Jim Crow.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Today is publication day for my new book,The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, a fresh and deeply researched history of global politics at mid-century. Get your copy now!
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Great article by @senayboztas.bsky.social about what's really created the housing crisis in the Netherlands: the perks of the house possessing class and decades of neoliberal neglect of the social housing market. Pity it isn't in a Dutch paper. | @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Amsterdam’s squatter wars are back – and wealthy Dutch homeowners have only themselves to blame | Senay Boztas
Those already on the property ladder are fuelling a shameful disparity. Until they wake up, the krakers will keep coming, says journalist Senay Boztas
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OneWorld @oneworld.nl · 26/08/2025
Ze was kritisch op de Nederlandse onderdrukker, streed voor vrouwenrechten en richtte een meisjesschool op: Kartini. Wie was deze Javaanse schrijfster, die zelfs na haar gedwongen huwelijk bleef strijden voor vrouwenemancipatie? @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social
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Waarom je Javaanse schrijfster Kartini (1879–1904) moet kennen - OneWorld
Ze was kritisch op de Nederlandse onderdrukker, streed voor vrouwenrechten en richtte een meisjesschool op: de Javaanse schrijfster Kartini. Hoewel haar geboortedag een nationale feestdag is in…
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Reminder that the most expensive living areas in Lagos are flood zones (which is why one should never go house hunting in the dry season). If you like to keep your feet dry, come to the mainland. #Lekki #Nigeria
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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 16/08/2025
We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Last month @theatlantic.com published an often problematic piece about the war in #Sudan called “the war about nothing”. This week @thecontinent.org swings back, reminding us that what is “nothing” to you is “everything” to someone else. The Continent is a free publication, subscribe to read.
A magazine cover featuring abstract art and the title “the war about everything in Sudan”.
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Africa Check @africacheck.org · 15/08/2025
Claim: “Nigeria has one of the lowest budgets per capita in the world in dollar terms.” Verdict: Unproven africacheck.info/fasua_economy
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‘Reimagining Nigeria’: fact-checking president’s adviser Tope Fasua’s bold economic claims
On TV, president Bola Tinubu’s economic adviser made eye-catching claims about topics from oil to poverty. But his numbers don’t all add up.
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Reminder that the most expensive living areas in Lagos are flood zones (which is why one should never go house hunting in the dry season). If you like to keep your feet dry, come to the mainland. #Lekki #Nigeria
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mojubaolu.bsky.social @mojubaolu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It's about time! #Africa #worldmap #AU #Mercator #EqualEarthProjection www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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African Union urges adoption of world map showing continent's true size
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa's size.
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein
In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
For centuries, the European perspective dominated African historiography. Sudanese-British journalist Zeinab Badawi wrote a historical account from an African perspective. "The idea that Africa didn't record its own history is a mistake." My interview for @oneworld.nl www.oneworld.nl/identiteit/z...
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Journalist Zeinab Badawi: ‘In Afrikaanse verhalen is Europa maar een voetnoot’ - OneWorld
Eeuwenlang domineerde de Europese blik in de geschiedschrijving van Afrika. De Sudanees-Britse journalist Zeinab Badawi schreef een historische vertelling vanuit Afrikaans perspectief. ‘Het idee dat A...
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City | via @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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Maartje Luif @zezunja.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Ik ben echt elke dag weer volkomen uit het veld geslagen door het nieuws uit Gaza. Ik weet me met mijn machteloosheid geen raad.
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Waarom je soms wel op een stuk rood vlees moet reageren @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power. africasacountry.com/2025/08/poli...
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Political musical chairs
A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power.
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Johannes Tesfai @jojote.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Unser Buch ist endlich da! Lest es, wenn ihr mehr über den vergessenen Schwarzen Aktivismus der 1970er, 80er und 90er erfahren wollt.
Das Buchcover von Sichtbar werden, hinter der Schrift liegen Schwarz-Weiß-Bilder, eine Person mit Pokal, Demonstrierende mit Transparent
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Finland’s capital Helsinki goes a FULL YEAR WITHOUT A TRAFFIC DEATH! Interesting, Cape Town, SA, one of the cities in Africa with the LOWEST TRAFFIC fatality rates has about 500 deaths a year. Lagos, Nigeria, which has among the HIGHTEST TRAFFIC DEATHS on the continent reports about 1,200 a year.
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Helsinki Goes a Full Year Without a Traffic Death Thanks to Better Planned Streets, Lower Speed Limits
Over time, a focus on street safety led to lower speed limits along more and more city lanes, from 30 mph to 18 mph.
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Wies Ubags @wiesubags.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In Brazil we know her as Oxum. ❤️ #orixás #candomblé
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Femke van Zeijl @femkevanzeijl.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Osun, among other things, is the #Yoruba orisha of fertility. This is why an important stop today in the Osogbo Sacred Grove on the way to the actual Osun shrine is this statue of Olomoyoyo, the one with many children. #Nigeria
Statue of Olomoyoyo, "the one with many children", a cement sculpture of Osun surrounded by children, from the base of the statue upwards, climbing her legs, in her arms and on her back.
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