folukeifejola

folukeifejola.bsky.social

20 October 2026 09:37

"Kennedy and the Danish researchers were “taking advantage of that delay in practicing standard care to put these children at risk unnecessarily”, Offit said. “What a terrible thing to do. What a horribly unethical and cruel thing to do.”"

Clare Downham

downham.bsky.social

20 October 2026 09:34

Thanks Stephen! I think for a general audience it is helpful to provide a translation (even if imperfect and included with a heavy footnote). For a work pitched to a more scholarly audience then leaving terms untranslated is fair. It's a messy compromise between accessibility, accuracy and rigour...

folukeifejola

folukeifejola.bsky.social

19 October 2026 11:14

Do we still need an "African Literature" shelf? Is there any literature that works best in that shelf rather than the writing genre to which it belongs? E.g., fantasy? Romance? Crime? Satire? Historical fiction? Etc? Thoughts?

folukeifejola

folukeifejola.bsky.social

19 October 2026 11:13

Thomas Sankara was assassinated 39 years ago this week. A reminder that Sankara had a vision for an Africa that was bold, free, proud, and unfettered. Please let us keep his visions alive as we dare to invent a future Africa... with 'a certain amount of madness.' folukeafrica.com/thomas-sanka...

Clare Downham

downham.bsky.social

19 October 2026 11:13

Book royalty email day from CUP - like I must stick to the day job, but nice that sales are increasing not just decreasing as years pass (even if the proof reading situation was mangled adding more factual errors). Might even take publisher up on the offer of a 2nd edition #history