Lisa Brown

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🎉

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

@lynseychutel @Tessa_Dooms I love this! I can't wait to read it!

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In a World On Fire, What Do We Owe Each Other? thenation.com/article/world/…

#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/g…

This is amazing!! Congratulations @mikey_fam

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.

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

@Ms_ZamaNdlovu This is loud.

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/2…

@RonakGopaldas Bravo 😂

Swedish reference is apt. They're chowing alone.

RMB names Emrie Brown as new CEO businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/f… via @BusinessLiveSA

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

can’t believe wearing masks when we walked in and then taking them off when we sat down didn’t work

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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/ken…

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