Lake Nakuru joined in 2013 the list of other lakes in Rift Valley whose water levels have abnormally increased endangering the lives of residents and the ecosystems around the lake.
🌟 Cette année encore, je signe l'identité visuelle et affiche du Festival Seytou Africa, qui met à l’honneur le cinéma documentaire africain et afro-diasporique, à Paris. J'ai également développé un caractère typographique spécifique adapté aux titres, qui ajoute une dimension supplémentaire à l’identité.🌟
Fish et al. (2021). A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men. Developing World Bioethics, 21(4), 211-226.
Interesting. Top locations for my #music on #SoundCloud over the past week are Cairo, Giza and Jakarta. The world map indicating where music is played is filling in, but nobody in western #Europe or #Africa has listened to a single tune yet. Same for #India. #Pakistan has listened, lol.
I have 1 play from Iran. Guessing they banned the rest.
Western Europe, eh? I should tag all music posts with #Eurovision, lol.
'Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled their studios and galleries in the capital, jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.'
Very excited to announce that @hnygd has joined mastodon.africa as a moderator! 🥳 Please be nice to him :)
Our application to be listed on joinmastodon.org was processed a few weeks ago, and it turns out lots of folks are interested in giving the fediverse a spin, so I'll also be stepping up my efforts to respond to requests and approvals more timeously.
@wogan Thanks a lot for running the by far best #mastodon instance, welcoming signups not just from #SouthAfrica or #Africa, but from all over the world... 😀
I am honoured that I am able to help this instance and the #fediverse as a whole to keep growing.
Following more than 25 years of stability, Somaliland – a breakaway region of northern Somalia which seeks international recognition – has been jolted by armed conflict.
Taboom Media and GALA Queer Archive are seeking to commission illustrators from across Africa to visually interpret and illustrate stories in the third volume of their Queer Activism in Africa anthology.
I love finding new music, especially ethnic roots music, and learning the stories and performers behind the tunes. As mentioned in my bio, I’m an amateur ethnomusicologist, and I collect music videos and have them organized into 19 playlists on my YouTube channel. The channel is over a decade old & my collection of tunes has been years in the making. In some cases, I have published articles about the various genres on my Medium page. Here’s a link to my Afrobeat/Afropop playlist - almost 130 music vids of the best the continent has to offer IMO. Especially fond of West African Griots and guitarists. Also the standout female African vocalists and instrumentalists like Kidjo, Diawara, Nneka, ASA and Jobarteh. #music#afrobeat#AfricanMusic#Africa#YouTube#MusicVideo#playlisthttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE6DB27B73B588787
Diabolus ex Machina: The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s iconic fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, depicts the Christian deity breathing life into the very first man. Today, a handful of incredibly rich men in Silicon Valley claim a similarly grandiose mission. This is, apparently, the dawn of the age of “artificial intelligence”.
According to its creators, this emerging tech is god-like in its abilities. But the devil is in the details. We spoke to several African AI researchers who see, instead, patterns of exploitation and extraction.
More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Only 8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
Meanwhile, another 37% of people live in some type of “flawed democracy”, while 55% of the world does not live in democracy at all, based on the EIU’s latest Democracy Index Report.
150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting (time.com)
More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies.