Australia has a history of Indigenous innovation dating back millennia, much of which has been kept from the history books by institutionalised racism

Our ancestors were brilliant & innovative. Peasants & convicts from small island couldn't deal with thatcrikey.com.au/2019/07/19/ind… Indigenous Australians are the oldest civilisation in the world, since earliest humans left Africa. They arrived in a single, epic migration, which took advanced planning. More than 1000 people made the treacherous journey, island-hopping to arrive in northern Australia.

What is cognitive justice? Cognitive justice is an idea from decolonial thought - pull up your chairs, ye whose ancestors were colonized by force and fraud - and two guys are referenced for originating (Visvanathan, 2005) and developing (Santos, 2007) the idea.

Starting with the first citation.

I am neither a muslim nor an Anglospherical that I must keep saying that RTs are not an endorsement. If you blank out half the world in your observations because "ew cooties" then you're consistently surprised in your analysis. Here, I can walk down the street to the local library where the librarian will teach me the basics of critically assessing information and evaluating its sources as part of societal media literacy efforts.

mg.co.za/opinion/2022-0… the challenge faced by the informal sector... such as your friendly neighbourhood vegetable vendor

source: Coolsaet, B. (2016). Towards an agroecology of knowledges: Recognition, cognitive justice and farmers’ autonomy in France. Journal of Rural Studies dial.uclouvain.be/downloader/dow…

BRICS is developing in a direction that was never envisaged. webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

Everyone's seeing opportunities to upend basket of currencies utterly fascinating presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04…

hmmm euractiv.com/section/europe… highest current account surplus in recent history To date, most research on the consequences of sanctions has explored how foreign economic pressure influences the formal sector of targeted economies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The Pandemic and the Informal and Rural Economic System foodformzansi.co.za/state-of-disas…

Today's lecture is on the Congo, by a Finnish media person. I will decide if I want to share it or not. Its our last guest lecture. Interesting, media representations of the Congo. Finnish person talking openly about "our stereotypes"

However, the licence was issued to only two of the four biggest telecom operators in Nigeria - the domestic players, not the foreign-owned ones. theafricareport.com/134759/nigeria… //there's a fancy pants paywall... let me look up the story of mobile money FINALLY arriving in Nigeria

Study on the Influencing factors of urban economic resilience in post epidemic Era—A case study of Kunming City sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Tons of research out of China published in 2021 on urban economic resilience of cities

#Nigeria
although % of financially excluded adults decreased, the actual number of financially excluded adults increased from 36.6 million in 2018 to 38.1 million in 2020. Increase is because population is growing faster than rate of financial inclusion nairametrics.com/2021/10/15/fin Nigeria failing to meet financial inclusion targets (even though fintech unicorns famous)

The South African Polyethylene Terephthalate Recycling Company (Petco) is driving the rollout of technology called BanQu to recycling buyback centres, in an effort to revolutionise how recyclable materials are traded, tracked and traced. engineeringnews.co.za/article/petco-… Once registered on the BanQu system, a buyback centre can capture the quantity of recyclable material bought from waste pickers, as well as the price paid for it and where it was collected.

There are an estimated 2,700 registered businesses in Kakuma, making up more than 30% of all businesses in the whole of Turkana County. ifc.org/wps/wcm/connec… The international community in Kakuma and the local County Government have adopted a 15-year strategy for the region’s development, based on a multi-stakeholder approach. weforum.org/agenda/2019/09…

This morning's lecture - case studies may be of interest

We lost my father's youngest brother this morning. He was only 7 years older than me. I'm sitting here and everyone is together far away, preparing for his cremation due in an hour.