Africa (ex-SA) Macro-Strategist. Climate Risk analysis. Previously SSA, China & India Country Risk. Views are my own. Retweets are not endorsements.
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Lisa Brown retweeted
I am so excited to announce that @lynseychutel and I have done a cool thing, we wrote a BOOK!
'Coloured: How Calssification became Culture' is a labour of love and our way of #CelebratingColoured.
Will tell you when you can get your copy!
Here is the first look at our baby🎉
Lisa Brown retweeted
COVER REVEAL:
‘What are you?’ I’ve been asked this question too many times.
To be Coloured in South Africa is to be assumed to be lost, without culture.
What are we? So many stories.
#Coloured - How a Classification became Culture w @Tessa_Dooms is out in September
Lisa Brown retweeted
#EXCLUSIVE - Ghana is poised to request debt relief via the G20 Common Framework and has sought reassurances that the negotiations can be expedited before proceeding, sources told Reuters.
Scoop from @KarinStrohecker, @jdorosario & @cakorlie
reuters.com/world/africa/gha…
This is amazing!! Congratulations @mikey_fam
Serena Williams’s venture capital firm is backing Nigerian data and insights firm Stears in a $3.3 million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital trib.al/5fiVFKD
Lisa Brown retweeted
You could tweet “this country is finished” and pretty much everyone would assume it was about their country. That’s the absolute state of the world right now.
Lisa Brown retweeted
NEW: Ghana is poised to start talks with domestic bondholders on a restructuring of its debt as part of plans to secure a $3 billion loan from the IMF, sources say trib.al/kjmtSog
The turn to Africa for a short-term gas fix is “patronizing” and “hypocritical,” said Carlos Lopes, former head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
A wild year on Wall Street has traders worried one of two extreme scenarios will engulf the $23 trillion Treasury market bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
Dumping of second-hand clothing from West poses dilemma for Ghana’s growing fashion scene and the young designers active in it irishtimes.com/world/africa/…
Russia’s war with Ukraine has escalated sovereign-debt risks in Africa, increasing the need for better relief measures, the World Bank says bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets
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Lisa Brown retweeted
Obituary: bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native who went on to an international career as an author, critic, feminist and public intellectual, died on Dec. 15 at her home in Berea. She was 69. @lbblackford kentucky.com/news/state/kent…
Lisa Brown retweeted
I’m proud to live in a country whose scientists have consistently shown themselves to be ahead of the curve in identifying #COVID19 variants that are already emerging in far more resourced nations.
I’m perplexed and angry that their excellence and ethics continue to be punished
Lisa Brown retweeted
😢😢😢Dozens of countries restricted travel to and from South Africa and neighboring nations, hoping to contain a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus that scientists say may be more contagious and render vaccines less effective. wsj.com/articles/southern-af…
“For FW de Klerk political reforms and reconciliation was never about moral intention, but always about political strategy”, writes acclaimed author Antjie Krog. “He has become the failed unrepentant face of white people.” news24.com/news24/Analysis/a…