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Please join me as part of our Africa Policy Accelerator's 2024-25 cohort! This is an excellent opportunity to network and engage with the next generation of U.S.-Africa policymakers and practitioners.

Head coach Rena Wakama wants more investment in Nigerian basketball 🗣️

WHAT IS A MILE?? 🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🇧🇼🌍🌍🌍🌍

🥇 Women's 5,000m 🥇 Women's 10,000m Kenya's Beatrice Chebet has won back-to-back gold medals in her first ever Olympic Games 🤯

Imane Khelif sold scrap metal to pay for her boxing training, is a UNICEF ambassador, stood up against horrific bullying, and is now an Olympic champion.

“Neck fans are the perfect serendipity of global warming and global markets.”

All Protocol Observed. Welcome to Issue 171 of The Continent. We join Botswana 🇧🇼 to celebrate Letsile Tebogo, and his mum in the ancestral realm, to honour a journey that began 21 years ago in the village of Kanye and culminated in a record-breaking 200m dash in Paris.

That’s the sound of every industrial printer in France churning out posters and tshirts.

how it feels for steph to finally be on your side after all these years watching him crush your favorite team’s soul

Anthony Edwards is just happy to be there

“Sports governing bodies, the media and the public should reject calls to judge African women’s bodies according to Eurocentric perceptions of femininity. And future Games … should shed the fixation with policing African women’s bodies under the guise of fair play.” ISS

🔔New CSIS Commentary: Preserving The Gambia’s FGM Law Is Only the Start Read more here: csis.org/analysis/prese… #EndFGM220

📢 New #CSISCommentary out now. In this piece, visiting Mandela Washington Fellow, Awa Gai Awa Gai, and CSIS Africa Program Intern, Fadima Tall, discuss the next steps for The Gambia in its fight against Female Genital Mutilation #FGM. Read here: csis.org/analysis/prese…

QUARTERFINALS BOUND 👏 Frances Tiafoe defeats Alexei Popyrin to advance in the US Open 🔥

Today, I became the FIRST African athlete to win a Paralympic medal in badminton 🏸 I look forward to the challenges ahead, approaching them with great determination and perseverance.…✨💨 Thanks

We don't talk enough about "technical expertise" that amounts to little more than this over and over and over, case after case after case.