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Oumar Bâ
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Oumar Bâ
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IR and stuff • future cattle herder
- 18 years ago today, I landed at JFK. It was a thursday evening. It was very cold. That was my first time ever traveling by plane. My first time ever leaving Sénégal. I thought I spoke english, until I landed. Then I realized that i don’t actually speak english
- never misunderestimate the colonizer’s ability to romanticize horror
- Replying to @OumarKBathe immigrant that cleans your office after you’ve left for the day, the international student in your class... This is our stories. This is our story. Thanks for listening ✌🏾
- as we watch the south africa v. israel, i’m reminded of how time and again, throughout history, lawyers, jurists, and diplomats from the global south spoke and acted on behalf of humanity only to be countered by the callousness of the so-called liberal democracies
- i’m creating a new grad course titled ‘rethinking the liberal international order’ for next semester. here’s a tentative reading list. what texts am i missing?
- Egypt - riots after Lumumba’s assassination, january 1961 (h/t @SarraMajd)
- it’s officially official. i will be joining the department of government at cornell university this fall. i will miss my students, the men of morehouse who taught me so much over the last 4 years. gratitude to all who supported my journey. if u know u know
- Replying to @OumarKBamy story, my trajectory, how i got here, my anxiety, my fear, is not exceptional. This is more or less the story of every immigrant you are likely to encounter. Talk to your immigrant neighbor, your immigrant doctor, ...
- any professor that got these moves should get tenure. no questions asked
- Sarkozy est enfin “assez entré dans l’histoire” — Proverbe Africain
- 🥁📜 my article ‘The Europeans and Americans Don’t Know Africa’: Of Translation, Interpretation, and Exportation’ is out at @millennjournal grateful to @kellyjobluen and to @jonneke, @rkrystalli, @drljshepherd and the whole ‘IR as if people matter’ group journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
- Replying to @OumarKBamy own Néné Couro sold her cow and gave me the equivalent of $200 to cover the costs of visa application and paperwork. Years later, when i wrote my MA thesis, I dedicated it to her
