@cdarwin@c.imMorabo Morojele’s creative career was remarkable.
What wove his three identities together – musician, development worker and writer – was his conscious, committed pan-Africanism
and his master craftsman’s skill with sound:
the sound of his drums and the sound of his words as they rose off the page.
Through his books, and his (far too few) recordings, that beauty lives with us still.
Robala ka khotso (Sleep in peace)
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” by Omar El Akkad.
Written against the backdrop of the horrors of early 2024 Gaza, it presents a morally clear rebuke of the sometimes intentional & hypocritical impotence of world powers to work towards the cessation of slaughter of innocent people who are “others”. A rebuke of the quiet, those who opt for convenience & consumption rather than demand peace & accountability.
5/5 stars
@cdarwin@c.imWhen he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime.
Then Trump got back into power
... Is it time to move again?
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@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Yes, the Soviet losses were real. And yet it is truly tragic that these losses helped to subjugate nations longing for freedom, replacing one dictatorship with another. "
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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."
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