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The black box. (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowAs of this writing, there has been much talk of the importance of regulating Artificial Intelligence, much of it tied to the possibility that AI may cause a cataclysmic crisis with outcomes as severe as human extinction. And then the conversation turned to such things as whether AI companies were engaged in a “psyop”1 to get governments to regulate in a way that would actually be to their
Panafricanism’s rapid prototyping. (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowWe’re coming toward the end of a series looking at the path from the 1955 Bandung Conference to the 1963 foundation of the Organization of African Unity. To recap:At Bandung, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru established an attractive platform for the neutrality of newly independent states during the Cold War, adapting the political philosophy of Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. This was th
May and June 1968. (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowThese two months represent the heart of 1968’s protest movements as relates to Africa and its diaspora. We discussed the years and months up to the end of April in the last post of the series, here (available outside the paywall until 11 September 2026). There, we saw the pace picking up. Now it is at a flat-out sprint.I. The United States.Just as in France an
Intersectionality and subordination. (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowI am currently reading ZZ Packer’s celebrated short-story collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. It combines the phrasal and situational humor of Ralph Ellison, the stark outlook of Amu Djoleto, and the anecdotal excellence of Aminata Sow Fall.1 One of the many things that I
The Cameroon and Congo crises. (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowWe return today to our series on the path to the Organization of African Unity’s founding in 1963, looking at the specific events that led to it taking the form it did. In the series’ first post, we saw how the interactions between India’s Jawaharlal Nehru and China’s Zhou Enlai shaped the 1955 Bandung Conference and the nascent non-aligned movement—not yet known by that na
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