Abel Chikanda🇿🇼🇨🇦

Now for some major career news: June 3rd will be my final day @UnivOfKansas. I'm proud of the 7 yrs of service with partners @KUGeog_Atmo @KUafs @KASCAFRICA @msp_ku @KUmigration. Excited to embark on a new adventure @McMasterU @McMasterScience @McMasterSEES in @cityofhamilton.

@admire_mseba Congratulations!

Tenured 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

What’s that sound? It’s Zaghrouta - a high‑pitched, trilling cry of joy heard for generations from Morocco to Botswana. The tradition went viral after Sabrina Carpenter reacted to it at Coachella. #bbcafrica

The one with Jean to Jean looks exactly like my mother in law 🥹😫

Wilfrid Laurier University mourns the passing of Professor Margaret Walton-Roberts I am heartbroken by the news that Margaret has passed. An enormous loss for human geography, for migration studies, and for academia in general. wlu.ca/news/spotlight…

@drDendere Congrats Chipo!

In Death, Diversion, and Departure, Dendere shows how the exit of young, urban, & working professional voters because of mass death due to the AIDS pandemic & mass migration in the wake of economic decline has increased the resilience of a regime thatmay have otherwise lost power

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🚨❤️🤍 BREAKING: Viktor Gyökeres to Arsenal, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between all parties involved. Sporting accept last bid from Arsenal for €63.5m plus €10m, agent will reduce his commission. Gyökeres will sign five year deal at #AFC. He ONLY wanted Arsenal. 🇸🇪

Our new edited book with Prof. Jonathan Crush and Dr. Sujata Ramachandran titled "New Directions in South-South Migration" was released by Springer Nature this morning as open access. Access entire book on: #bibliographic-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Some prescient words from GWB on this "liberation day." This is how a conservative speaks.

Wanna hear how Republicans talked about tariffs before Trump castrated all of them?

Kansas City Chiefs are heading back to the Super Bowl. Three-peat loading

@MalumeRichie The legendary Montgomery Riverboat Brawl x.com/i/status/16887…

I will never forget the bro that decided to swim Over for this fight🤣🤣😭

@elmondbandauko Actually, open peer review has been around for some time. Reviewers have access to article author(s) details, and likewise authors also get to know who reviewed their paper. See the following article on the pros and cons of open peer review nature.com/articles/nn039…

Honestly, l don't understand Editors who send review requests with the authors' names listed....not all journals use blind peer review?

@ElonMuskOde Rhekeni

@elmondbandauko @gift_mugano Professor venhema!

@gift_mugano Your framing is very problematic! You are aiding the the negative discourses on informality yet, it has been proven over and over again that developing countries cannot afford to trivialize informality! Informality is the lifeblood of most developing economies!

The informal sector or informality is now the biggest national security threat The informal sector is killing formal businesses, negatively affecting revenue inflows to treasury and making it virtually impossible for the GOZ to foster policy compliance. Striking examples: 1) Treasury instituted various tax measures such as presumptive taxes with a view to collect US$1.2 billion from the informal sector but only collected a paltry of US$35 million! 2) The IMTT (2%) used to contribute 16% of total revenue. Recent stats from Treasury shows that the IMTT is now contributing 3.41% of total revenue due to massive tax evasion as the informal sector is avoiding online payments in favour of cash transactions. 3) Informal jobs have shot to 87.7% in December 2023 from 75.6% in 2019, i.e., leaving the formal sector with a 12.3% share of contribution to employment - thus weakening PAYE inflows. Resultantly, the latest report by AG shows the year - to - date deficit sits at ZiG6.68 billion. 4) The authorities failed to foster compliance on ZiG - they have no capacity to arrest over 7 million people in the informal sector. The informal sector is one of the major killers of our local currency! We have deep rooted structural challenges which requires a massive paradigm shift in the way we run our economy. We need pragmatism, think tanking and disruptive thinking. On a daily basis, we talk about politics and ZiG! Without being prescriptive, when are we going to come up with disruptive strategies aimed at addressing the deep rooted structural challenges affecting our economy? Yours Truly The Professor of the Poor & Currency Seer

@elmondbandauko @WesternU @westernuGeoEnv Congrats Elmond!

I am so thrilled to have been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Governor General’s Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance throughout my PhD. in Geography & Environment @WesternU @westernuGeoEnv. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter. Only the best receive this!!!

@SkillsGapTrain 6) So the point that I am making is that we should engage in a healthy debate about the levels of immigration into the country. Granted, immigration (as well as your daily commute to work) may have negative impacts on the env, but so do our daily activities too!

@SkillsGapTrain 5) Please don't get me started on your MacBook! The lithium battery on that McBook was most likely sourced from the DRC, a country embroiled in war. So the macBook is made from 'blood minerals' africanews.com/2024/04/26/dr-…

@SkillsGapTrain 6) Lithium mining is also associated with a whole lot of environmental issues - see earth.org/lithium-and-co….