I enjoy everything about writing. It doesn’t matter if it’s a poem, a news article, an academic paper, copy, or this blog. I also edit and translate texts of different genres between English and German, hopefully adding Swahili, French, and many other languages in the future.
My academic background is in Social Sciences and African Studies, though I read way beyond any disciplinary limits. I have worked in academia, arts and culture, and political education. I’m not a graphic designer or content creator, but I do know my way around video, image, and audio editing. The main field of my work lies in research and journalism, and as of 2025 my first academic book chapter was published.
I have looked at the amazing project WriteFreely, which I hope to self-host and offer for other writers one day, experimented with building a static site myself with Jekyll and Hugo, and started learning HTML along the way.
That my blog exists in this form is due to Garam Salami and his blog.1 I hope that I can gradually shift my interactions from corporate-owned Social Media to either the fediverse, or content-focused platforms like this blog in the future.
The Design Philosophy
This should have been a static website. Publishing from the command line, just choosing the right template and only ever editing markdown files is a much more seamless process, and more resource efficient than anything else, except having no website at all.
I like the way in which I can arrange graphical elements, but my aspiration for the look of this page is a digital book, like Jeremy Keith’s Resilient Web Design.
Equally important sources of inspiration can be found in V.H. Belvadi’s Manifesto, the Low-tech Magazine, and this introduction to Minimal Computing.
Ecograder and Website Carbon can help you examine how sustainable your website is, and which dimensions should be optimized.
Recent Posts
- Black Muslims: Beyond Bilal and the Nation of IslamThe Orientalist image, once mobilized among other tropes to promote European colonization in favor of the suppression of the Arab slave trade, used to this day apologetically to play down the atrocities committed, equally misrepresents Africa, Islam, and their fundamental connection. In his two volume book series Beyond Bilal, Mustafa Briggs traces and emphasizes the… Read more: Black Muslims: Beyond Bilal and the Nation of Islam
- Black Studies in DeutschlandAls Feld jenseits zeitlicher, disziplinärer oder thematischer Einschränkungen stellen Black Studies eine herausfordernde und äußerst gewinnbringende und politisch relevante Arena intellektueller Aktivität dar. ISD und Adefra bilden mit ihrer 40-jährigen Bewegungsgeschichte einen zentralen Anker für die Verbindung schwarzer Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft – in Deutschland und weit darüber hinaus – und arbeiten kontinuierlich an der… Read more: Black Studies in Deutschland
- Review: Revolution in These TimesDhoruba bin Wahad (2025): Revolution in These Times Neunzehn Jahre verbrachte der ehemalige Black Panther und Black Liberation Army-Veteran Dhoruba bin Wahad im Gefängnis, nachdem er und andere bekannte Gesichter Schwarzer Befreiungsbewegungen wie der Black Panthers und der Republic of New Afrika zum Ziel von COINTELPRO wurden. Der FBI-Direktor J. Edgar Hoover war von der… Read more: Review: Revolution in These Times
- The Opposite of AccountabilityThis is an attempt to provide analysis and contextualization and expresses my opinion in addition to grievances from communities I am close to. I am not affiliated with or involved in the “Justice for Nelson” campaign. Black women and Queer siblings have been at the front line of feminist struggles, abolitionism and transformative justice, but… Read more: The Opposite of Accountability
- Reading Note: A Global Cultural History of Black and Blue(s)Imani Perry (2025): Black in Blues There is a certain poetry with which Black life and experience have become identified, to the point of entanglement.Feeling blue, having the blues, the dissonant harmonies, build-up and release of tension, and the dance of rhythms that have been carried over the deep, dark blue of the middle passage.… Read more: Reading Note: A Global Cultural History of Black and Blue(s)