Associate professor/librarian. Says yes to: knowledge production + flows from/to Africa, info/ knowledge mgt & all things open.
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Joined April 2011
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A growing middle class is increasingly mobile — and changing African ideas about leisure, travel and even the continent itself.
nytimes.com/2026/06/03/world…
First, it provides one of the earliest known dates for iron-smelting furnaces in Senegal. Second, it documents a long sequence of metallurgical activity spanning nearly 800 years, from 400 BCE to 400 CE. theconversation.com/in-seneg…
Easy A’s are a problem for a whole lot of reasons. They reduce the incentive to learn, which means that students leave college with less knowledge and fewer skills. nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opini…
Changing the African narrative is not about slogans or public relations campaigns. It requires clarity about who we are and confidence in communicating it.
newafricanmagazine.com/opini…
The current system of unpaid reviews... produces late reviews [and] thin reviews and excludes large segments of the research community who cannot afford to work for free. Payment creates accountability, not corruption.”insidehighered.com/news/facu…
Two Kenyan women – Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka – set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi.
theconversation.com/two-keny…
[African] Intellectuals on the continent and in the diaspora have long navigated a complex terrain shaped by colonial legacies, political constraints and global inequalities.
theconversation.com/6-africa…
Roemers... uses vehicles as a vehicle for philosophical questions: How do our methods of transportation represent our identities, reflect global inequalities and illustrate the changing nature of mobility as we drive forward in the 21st century.
npr.org/2026/02/22/g-s1-1088…
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the internet.
theconversation.com/african-…
"There are different kinds of belonging. There's the kind that comes with a passport, and there's a kind of helpless, spiritual attachment".
(Jane Bryce, *In Zamani: A Haunted Memoir of Tanzania* 2023)
IPAM is proud that its students who have benefitted from training at its Centre of Excellence for Entrepreneurship and Innovation came away as 1st and 3rd prize winners. @DrTonyaMusa1
MEET THE WINNERS!
Congratulations to the talented young innovators who took top honors in the maiden Youth-led #GreenSolutions Innovation Challenge by @ProtectionLeone & @UNDPSierraLeone.
🔸1st - Peter George
🔸2nd - Mariama Gendemeh
🔸3rd - Kabba Fofanah
@timbuktooafrica
Sierra Leonean and other African migrants face twin dangers
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Miriam Conteh-Morgan retweeted
A new post by @libranomics describes how moving the library beyond the library is an evolutionary, not revolutionary, process. Informed by recent @OCLC Research Library Partnership leadership roundtable discussions. buff.ly/4dPlcC6
Go Gabby!
American Gabby Thomas, the Harvard graduate who also holds a master's degree in public health, won the 200-m sprint Wednesday night at the Stade de France, the first U.S. track athlete to win gold in this event since Allyson Felix in 2012 time.com/7008219/gabby-thoma…
The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the Mande people of west Africa – the virtuoso kora player, composer, and collaborator from Mali, Toumani Diabaté. theconversation.com/toumani-… via @TC_Africa
