steve sharra

@stevesharra

Assoc. Prof., Sch of Ed, Unicaf Mw. Past: AFIDEP| CatholicUofM| UofBotswana| UIowa | MSU | LSE| uMunthu| Nkrumah PanAfrikanist |TEDx …

Ntcheu, Malawi
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  1. 18 hours ago

    US: Teachers are leaving and few people want to join the field. Experts are sounding the alarm

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    Feb 5

    The U.S. Army is dismissing soldiers who refuse to get the Covid vaccine from the service.

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    22 hours ago

    Why banning books in public schools is a really bad idea.

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  4. 19 hours ago

    On a calm, February Sunday morning, Lilongwe can be a pretty, green city. And oh, the 6-lane project seems to be getting underway.

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    Feb 5

    Breaking News: The 5-year-old boy pulled from a well in Morocco has died, state media reported. The boy, named Rayan, had been trapped for four days.

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Very sad...four days was too much

    Five-year-old boy, named locally as Rayan, dies after being rescued from well in Morocco after four days
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    Feb 5

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been named the recipient of the 2022 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The award is conferred to a living author whose canon is original, represents the peak of achievement, and is of "consummate craftsmanship".

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    Feb 5

    "I have no faith we will remain a democracy if Republicans win power." — Max Boot

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    Jan 31

    "The ex-president having his 'damn right I called the code red' moment last night, confessing to the whole thing, a statement that reveals he did not win the 2020 election, that he simply wanted Mike Pence to overturn the real result of the election" -

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  10. Feb 5

    This boy has been stuck in a deep, narrow well for four days now. Can't imagine what the family is going through.

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    Feb 4

    Just the kind of investigative journalism has bn missin - contextualisin corruption, quantifyin it, asking the right Qs, drawing transnational connections. Reporting not restricted by focusing on party rule but showing the historical continuities & why corruption persists

    NEW: From Hong Kong, UAE to London, Sattar-linked firms, including suspected dodgy ones, have earned a fortune we estimate to be around a trillion supplying military and police overpriced goods. Along the way, no one has cared much about the law.
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    Feb 4

    Its difficult to count the number of Zuneth Sattar companies that have received billions from Malawi government over the past decade. Estimating the massive fortune he generated is even harder, all done under the veil of security. But was it all lawful?

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    Feb 3

    No money for better teacher salaries or to stop school shootings but unlimited resources to surveil student-teacher interactions.

    NEW: Iowa Republicans have introduced a bill that would put government-installed cameras in every single classroom to livestream school activities for parents to spy on teachers and children at all times of the day.
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  14. Feb 3

    Neoliberalism being extended into space?

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    Feb 3

    Today is Stuart Hall's 90th birthday. The most important public intellectual of the past 50 years, who left us a legacy to wrestle with. So many of today's political problems can be confronted with a renewed optimism of the will, if we understand our conjuncture and reshape it.

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    Feb 1

    “Death rates are so high in the States — eye-wateringly high,” a global public health expert said. Despite having one of the world’s most powerful arsenals of vaccines, the U.S. has failed to inoculate as much of its population as other wealthy nations.

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    Jan 31

    📌Pretty much ...

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    Jan 31

    Need I say more?

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    Jan 31

    -Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) will enhance rainfall &thunderstorms which will be locally heavy in some places in the north, central & lakeshore areas unlike Southern . -Tropical Cyclone monitoring, no impact on Malawi weather so far 30Jan-5feb2022

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  20. Jan 31

    What's all that shooting about? Which part of Lilongwe is this?

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