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sam @samanthanyakundi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For Routed Magazine + Oxford Migration Studies Society 2026 Issue: Migration, Justice, & the Making of Futures, I got to write about some of the cool people I met and spaces I visited while living/doing research on the black Mediterranean in Spain. Read here; www.routedmagazine.com/post/hauntin...

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Haunting the black Mediterranean: Black, African and Afro-descendant women’s everyday lives in Spain

By Samantha Nyakundi

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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

German broadcast. Nailed it

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Ras Mengesha @rasmengesha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

(INFANTINO YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR SINS)

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Ras Mengesha @rasmengesha.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

(what the hell is all this?!)

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sam @samanthanyakundi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

So glad this is out! I return to the 1976 Soweto Uprising at its 50th anniversary and the revolts that preceded it, reading apartheid as a longer settler colonial formation shaped by Dutch and British rule. I engage Black Consciousness, its afterlives, #Fallism, and what still remains to be done.

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Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, questions raised by student resistance remain unresolved. Samantha Nyakundi argues that recent movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall recall broader historical struggles for liberation in South Africa. 🗃️ clioandthecontemporary.com/2026/06/30/1...

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The 1976 Soweto Uprising, the Black Consciousness Movement and the Politics of Student Protest in South Africa

Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, many of the questions raised by student resistance remain unresolved. Recent movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall draw from broader historica…

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Ras Mengesha @rasmengesha.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

(because i trust y’all, i watched yung miami’s spend dat. because i watched yung miami’s spend dat, i don’t trust y’all)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I like this practice... open.substack.com/pub/madelein...

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The fluttering of our days

A big batch of daily things

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Ras Mengesha @rasmengesha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

(something in this matatu smells like chontaduro)

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have been watching The Batman on a plane for as long as I can remember

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

“Perhaps the founding document against gayism is the Report on the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Cult of Devil Worship in Kenya (1995).” open.substack.com/pub/keguro/p...

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notes from fallow

on gayism

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Karen from Finance @blkreparations.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

RUTO MUST GO RUTO MUST GO RUTO MUST GO It’s become cacelorazo It crescendoes past materiality into the vibrating bleed of legendary rocks Luanda Magere the rock is chanting it Magma is chanting it The rock a sangoma pulled out of my mother when I was 5 is chanting it The rocks have had enough

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Error Crater - big oops @errorcrater.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

please note from my bio that i am nonbinary which means i am neither a "man" nor a "woman". this is confusing and hard to understand for some people. just take my word for it. thanks if you take issue with the very concept - please block me. thanks

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Rice has never let me down.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026

Happy International Workers’ Day!

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Ras Mengesha @rasmengesha.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

(“Eduardo, I love your books because you write like a woman. - sandra cisneros to eduardo galeano)

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Charlotte the Host Origami @carolotta.me · 31/03/2026

heavy is the head that wears the cake

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Charlotte the Host Origami @carolotta.me · 31/03/2026

her hat looks made of fondant

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Wow. So...having been denied entry to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, it appears that the Latin Patriarch held services outdoors. At Gethsemane. 10/10 use of symbolism, no notes. www.lpj.org/en/news/medi...

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Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane

Meditation for Palm Sunday at Gethesmane Jerusalem, March 29, 2026 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, may the Lord give you peace. We are here at Gethesamne

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Never forget an anti-slavery English professor saved the Republic

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Which flowers are speech? which flowers are silence?" Ghassan Zaqtan, trans. Fady Joudah

I don't remember who was it that said to me or to another
"When you grow up poetry will become your house"
The dust that eats the memories always distances those folks
yet their chairs appear from afar, from behind the hills and over the houses, to hang in an air of summer and holm oak, those shaded chairs that reach the heart on shoulders topped with five flowers
Which flowers are speech which flowers are silence?

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Palestinians in Gaza go visit the graves of their families and find that the cemetery has bloomed with flowers.

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404 Media @404media.co · 15/03/2026

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...