Sheila Semo
@sheilasemo.bsky.social
Soy estratega de comunicación y asesora en diplomacia cultural. Fuera del turismo y la cultura, me apasiona mucho la justicia social y, como resultado, he trabajado para varias organizaciones que se ocupan de cuestiones de justicia social.
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Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con Casa África buff.ly/WGsMVlg
September 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Una reivindicación de aquellas personas de origen africano que a lo largo de la historia han dejado su huella en Europa: 'Europeos africanos. Una historia jamás contada', de Olivette Otele @historianmemory.bsky.social. Coeditado con Casa África buff.ly/WGsMVlg
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My forthcoming book, The Jungles, (Out February 2) is full of revealing detail about the relationship between Monk and Coltrane, whose centenary is being observed now. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The Jungles
A hidden history of twentieth-century American modernity that begins in a once-dynamic Black neighborhood in New York City with Thelonious Monk as its guiding star., The Jungles, Thelonious Monk and t...
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September 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
My forthcoming book, The Jungles, (Out February 2) is full of revealing detail about the relationship between Monk and Coltrane, whose centenary is being observed now. wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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🇺🇦 Cultural Diplomacy: How Ukraine Should Tell Its (Hi)story to the World
To understand the true roots of Ukraine’s resistance, the world must look through its history and discover stories of inspiration, empathy, and shared human values.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/cultural-dip...
To understand the true roots of Ukraine’s resistance, the world must look through its history and discover stories of inspiration, empathy, and shared human values.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/cultural-dip...
Cultural Diplomacy: How Ukraine Should Tell Its (Hi)story to the World | The Ukrainian Review
Our people have always been everywhere: living, creating, exchanging experiences, meeting new people, and drawing inspiration. Places leave their mark on people — and this movement is always mutual.
theukrainianreview.info
September 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
🇺🇦 Cultural Diplomacy: How Ukraine Should Tell Its (Hi)story to the World
To understand the true roots of Ukraine’s resistance, the world must look through its history and discover stories of inspiration, empathy, and shared human values.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/cultural-dip...
To understand the true roots of Ukraine’s resistance, the world must look through its history and discover stories of inspiration, empathy, and shared human values.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/cultural-dip...
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❤️Toda nuestra solidaridad con Maricarmen, David y su hijo, el Sindicato de Inquilinas y quienes defienden el derecho a una vivienda.
Estos desahucios no son casos aislados: miles de hogares sufren una crisis que antepone los intereses de los fondos al derecho a un hogar 🧵:
Estos desahucios no son casos aislados: miles de hogares sufren una crisis que antepone los intereses de los fondos al derecho a un hogar 🧵:
Un fondo desahucia a Maricarmen a sus 87 años tras un enorme despliegue policial y pese a la presión vecinal
El lanzamiento se ejecutó después de que la Policía Nacional sacara a los cientos de activistas que intentaron frenarlo en la calle, por las escaleras y en la vivienda de la anciana, que se ha convertido en un símbolo de la crisis habitacional que vive el país
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September 23, 2026 at 12:10 PM
❤️Toda nuestra solidaridad con Maricarmen, David y su hijo, el Sindicato de Inquilinas y quienes defienden el derecho a una vivienda.
Estos desahucios no son casos aislados: miles de hogares sufren una crisis que antepone los intereses de los fondos al derecho a un hogar 🧵:
Estos desahucios no son casos aislados: miles de hogares sufren una crisis que antepone los intereses de los fondos al derecho a un hogar 🧵:
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Heading to the Black Portraiture[s] conference? In anticipation, peruse a reading list of books that span art, architecture, migration, and the many ways Black communities create—and reclaim—space.
www.getty.edu/news/black-p...
www.getty.edu/news/black-p...
September 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Heading to the Black Portraiture[s] conference? In anticipation, peruse a reading list of books that span art, architecture, migration, and the many ways Black communities create—and reclaim—space.
www.getty.edu/news/black-p...
www.getty.edu/news/black-p...
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Born to freed slaves in Memphis only 9 months after the Emancipation Proclamation went out, Mary Church Terrell would go on to become one of the most important figures in both Black and Women's history.
A teacher, organization founder, and suffragist
She was born 163 years ago today.
A teacher, organization founder, and suffragist
She was born 163 years ago today.
September 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Born to freed slaves in Memphis only 9 months after the Emancipation Proclamation went out, Mary Church Terrell would go on to become one of the most important figures in both Black and Women's history.
A teacher, organization founder, and suffragist
She was born 163 years ago today.
A teacher, organization founder, and suffragist
She was born 163 years ago today.
El diálogo y la pluralidad enriquecen la educación global. 📚🌍 Te invitamos a profundizar en nuevas perspectivas con el Máster en Cultura y Pensamiento de los Pueblos Negros en la UCM. Súmate a una reflexión constructiva y rigurosa sobre las narrativas de la historiografía africana. ¡Inscríbete!👇
🧐 ¡¡Estamos en período de preinscripción!! ✨
📢¡Abrimos el plazo de preinscripción para el próximo curso 2026-27‼️
📜Máster propio de la @unicomplutense
💻Íntegramente online
➡️Para más información escribir a 📩[email protected]
🔗Inscripción👉https://www.ucm.es/cfp/estudios/2026-27/masterformacionpermanente-cultura_y_pensamiento_de_los_pueblos_negros_4
📜Máster propio de la @unicomplutense
💻Íntegramente online
➡️Para más información escribir a 📩[email protected]
🔗Inscripción👉https://www.ucm.es/cfp/estudios/2026-27/masterformacionpermanente-cultura_y_pensamiento_de_los_pueblos_negros_4
September 24, 2026 at 5:57 PM
El diálogo y la pluralidad enriquecen la educación global. 📚🌍 Te invitamos a profundizar en nuevas perspectivas con el Máster en Cultura y Pensamiento de los Pueblos Negros en la UCM. Súmate a una reflexión constructiva y rigurosa sobre las narrativas de la historiografía africana. ¡Inscríbete!👇
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📌Nuevo artículo en nuestro Blog 👉https://culturaypensamientodelospueblosnegros.com/las-comunidades-afrodescendientes-en-el-actual-territorio-argentino-desde-la-colonia-hasta-los-inicios-del-siglo-xx-i/
September 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
📌Nuevo artículo en nuestro Blog 👉https://culturaypensamientodelospueblosnegros.com/las-comunidades-afrodescendientes-en-el-actual-territorio-argentino-desde-la-colonia-hasta-los-inicios-del-siglo-xx-i/
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Please sign this petition in support of my colleague Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambian citizens whose passports have been revoked.
c.org/Msb9SWnLGv
c.org/Msb9SWnLGv
Sign the Petition
Overturn the cancellation of the passports of Dr. Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambians
c.org
September 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Please sign this petition in support of my colleague Sishuwa Sishuwa and other Zambian citizens whose passports have been revoked.
c.org/Msb9SWnLGv
c.org/Msb9SWnLGv
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About time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
World Athletics Championships 2029: Kenyan capital Nairobi wins bid to host event in African first
Kenya will become the first African nation to host the World Athletics Championships after Nairobi beats London, Munich and Rome in bidding for the 2029 event.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
About time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Cuando hay muchos hombres sin decoro, hay siempre otros que tienen en sí el decoro de muchos hombres. Esos son los que se rebelan con fuerza terrible contra los que les roban a los pueblos su libertad, que es robarles a los hombres su decoro".
José Martí
José Martí
September 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"Cuando hay muchos hombres sin decoro, hay siempre otros que tienen en sí el decoro de muchos hombres. Esos son los que se rebelan con fuerza terrible contra los que les roban a los pueblos su libertad, que es robarles a los hombres su decoro".
José Martí
José Martí
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Tourists throw almost 3,000 euros a day into Rome's Trevi Fountain, nearly 1.5 million a year, and it all goes to charity.
September 13, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Tourists throw almost 3,000 euros a day into Rome's Trevi Fountain, nearly 1.5 million a year, and it all goes to charity.
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Hello, shy author here... 🙋♂️
If any/all of the following are your thing - contemporary art from China, ceramics, histories of trade, identities across borders, cultural diplomacy, heritage tourism - my book New Export China (@ucpress.bsky.social) will maybe, probably, definitely be your thing! 👇🏽
If any/all of the following are your thing - contemporary art from China, ceramics, histories of trade, identities across borders, cultural diplomacy, heritage tourism - my book New Export China (@ucpress.bsky.social) will maybe, probably, definitely be your thing! 👇🏽
September 13, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Hello, shy author here... 🙋♂️
If any/all of the following are your thing - contemporary art from China, ceramics, histories of trade, identities across borders, cultural diplomacy, heritage tourism - my book New Export China (@ucpress.bsky.social) will maybe, probably, definitely be your thing! 👇🏽
If any/all of the following are your thing - contemporary art from China, ceramics, histories of trade, identities across borders, cultural diplomacy, heritage tourism - my book New Export China (@ucpress.bsky.social) will maybe, probably, definitely be your thing! 👇🏽
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“The ancient monks of north-east Africa reveal an overlooked chapter in the history of religion in Africa,
challenging the enduring misconception that Africa was isolated from the wider currents of global history.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
challenging the enduring misconception that Africa was isolated from the wider currents of global history.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
Ancient African Monks: The Christian period in Egypt and North-East Africa (c. 50-642 CE)
Christianity reached Africa soon after the rise of the religion, spreading first to Egypt and later across the Maghreb and southward into Aksum/Ethiopia and Nubia/Sudan.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
September 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
“The ancient monks of north-east Africa reveal an overlooked chapter in the history of religion in Africa,
challenging the enduring misconception that Africa was isolated from the wider currents of global history.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
challenging the enduring misconception that Africa was isolated from the wider currents of global history.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...
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LaToya M. Hobbs, US printmaker of Black Women of Print is one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book🧡
'Reframing Women Printmakers' 🎁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/refr...
'Reframing Women Printmakers' 🎁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/refr...
September 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
LaToya M. Hobbs, US printmaker of Black Women of Print is one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book🧡
'Reframing Women Printmakers' 🎁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/refr...
'Reframing Women Printmakers' 🎁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/refr...
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En la creación destructiva
Destroying Books to Build a Mind
Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?
www.newyorker.com
September 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
En la creación destructiva
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Los arquitectos de África que imaginan las ciudades del futuro: “A Occidente le encanta la arquitectura africana, siempre que sea un ‘safari lodge”
Los arquitectos de África que imaginan las ciudades del futuro: “A Occidente le encanta la arquitectura africana, siempre que sea un ‘safari lodge”
La primera bienal del continente reúne a representantes de cada país con la premisa de “desplazar el centro” del debate arquitectónico hacia el Sur
social.elpais.com
September 13, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Los arquitectos de África que imaginan las ciudades del futuro: “A Occidente le encanta la arquitectura africana, siempre que sea un ‘safari lodge”
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It is a broken Christianity that desperately looks for Jesus returning in the clouds but refuses to recognize him in the faces of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the bombed, the starving, the marginalized, and the oppressed.
September 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
It is a broken Christianity that desperately looks for Jesus returning in the clouds but refuses to recognize him in the faces of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the bombed, the starving, the marginalized, and the oppressed.
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Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/georgi...
✒️ #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson, African American Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright, was #BOTD 10 September 1877. #Poetry #Theatre
✒️ #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson, African American Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright, was #BOTD 10 September 1877. #Poetry #Theatre
September 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/georgi...
✒️ #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson, African American Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright, was #BOTD 10 September 1877. #Poetry #Theatre
✒️ #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson, African American Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright, was #BOTD 10 September 1877. #Poetry #Theatre
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Afganistán, Somalia y Yemen han desaparecido de los últimos informes del hambre del sistema FEWS NET de Estados Unidos. Los expertos advierten de Donald Trump está "politizando el análisis" de las crisis de seguridad alimentaria del mundo
✏️@soypuentes.bsky.social
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✏️@soypuentes.bsky.social
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
Afganistán, Somalia y Yemen, las crisis que desaparecen de los últimos informes del hambre de EE UU: “Trump está politizando el análisis”
La exclusión de estos países de la plataforma estadounidense FEWS NET desata preocupación entre expertos y organizaciones humanitarias, que alertan del riesgo de perder una herramienta clave para anti...
elpais.com
September 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Afganistán, Somalia y Yemen han desaparecido de los últimos informes del hambre del sistema FEWS NET de Estados Unidos. Los expertos advierten de Donald Trump está "politizando el análisis" de las crisis de seguridad alimentaria del mundo
✏️@soypuentes.bsky.social
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
✏️@soypuentes.bsky.social
elpais.com/planeta-futu...
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El amor por los animales
está íntimamente asociado
con la bondad del carácter,
y se puede afirmar con seguridad
que quien es cruel con los animales,
no puede ser buena persona.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
#Fuedicho
está íntimamente asociado
con la bondad del carácter,
y se puede afirmar con seguridad
que quien es cruel con los animales,
no puede ser buena persona.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
#Fuedicho
September 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
El amor por los animales
está íntimamente asociado
con la bondad del carácter,
y se puede afirmar con seguridad
que quien es cruel con los animales,
no puede ser buena persona.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
#Fuedicho
está íntimamente asociado
con la bondad del carácter,
y se puede afirmar con seguridad
que quien es cruel con los animales,
no puede ser buena persona.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
#Fuedicho
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At Yale University Art Gallery, Johannesburg-born curator James Green frames Nguni art as living history by bringing together 150 works, contemporary photography, and a rebuilt isibaya into a first-of-its-kind exhibition.
Nguni history is more than just ethnography – a curator of African art explains
At Yale University Art Gallery, Johannesburg-born curator James Green frames Nguni art as living history by bringing together 150 works, contemporary photography and a rebuilt isibaya into a first-of-...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
September 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
At Yale University Art Gallery, Johannesburg-born curator James Green frames Nguni art as living history by bringing together 150 works, contemporary photography, and a rebuilt isibaya into a first-of-its-kind exhibition.