The ContinentPhoto essay: It often feels like everyone's out for themselves – but in Shao, Nigeria, matrimonial rites unite more than just the newly wed. https://continent.substack.com/p/slow-love-in-a-cut-throat-world
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The year in news: Matters escalated and escalated, and we tried our hardest to breathe through the smoke of everything burning around us. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-year-in-news
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 224 of The Continent
We celebrate people whose purpose and passion shine through a tumultuous 2025, embodying Khalil Gibran’s words that “work is love made visible.” Meet our Africans of the Year: https://bit.ly/224_TC
HeathCI went out looking for koalas this morning. This is not a koala. #rainbowlorikeet #wildĺifephotography #birdphotography
The year in movies, as chosen by Wilfred Okiche, The Continent’s film critic. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-year-in-movies
Eve Ventually#ScribesAndMakers December 14: Shameless someone else promotion day.
@dilmandila is a filmmaker crowdfunding to make a #solarpunk short film called Wind. He's already raised the principle money needed to film Wind but is raising more to improve the special effects (and, I'd imagine, deal with other contingencies).
You can check out some of the stuff he's already done on his Films list.
His work is really cool and I hope more folks will chip in.
Wind: A Solarpunk Short Film
I'm making a new short film, which I'll release on my PeerTube channel. It is a final target practice for a feature film (titled Big Tree) that I intend to shoot next year, themed on direct democracy in a near-future solarpunk world. Help me imagine this future with a donation (PayPal is preferred s
Just us: A dog and his companion share a moment of almost sacred stillness and solitude on the shores of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, in an image that was recognised at the recent Uganda Press Photo Awards.
Photo: Lucas Oyugi
Logan Five ThousandI don't just start one task I don't finish. I start MANY tasks I don't finish. It's called multi-slacking.
Harare Review of BooksRIP Alice Wong 💔🌸
Mali’s capital Bamako isn’t yet spiralling into chaos, and the militants are not quite at the gates, but the fuel crisis has cracked the image of control the junta has worked hard to project https://continent.substack.com/p/bamako-is-grinding-towards-a-halt
