Mark Doyle

This, by @owenmatth, is brilliant. I don’t know enough about #Ukraine to know if it’s all accurate but, as an ex-journalist, I’d say it appears to be very well sourced and highly informed. Also, well written - can’t put it down!

A friend in DRC remembered that my birthday, today, is also his country’s birthday! So any excuse for a bit of Congolese music…

Jonathan Agnew (Aggers) & Brian Johnston - Test Match Special Legover ou... youtu.be/KsVTpX7LdZQ via @YouTube

Shehu Sani is a Nigerian Senator I had the pleasure to meet about 10 years ago. He’s very well informed about Boku Haram and other subjects - but here is some other wisdom:

Pleased to say my two sons are devouring this most excellent book on the history of Africa. Our copy is now falling apart. That’s how it should be! I shall sellotape it back up later.

⁦@Clibbens_AH⁩

Happy Independence Day, Ghana!

The late, great Miriam Makeba lives on through her music of course but also through clips like these from earlier years:

Someone has taken southern Nigeria and someone else has pinched Gabon - but otherwise, here is Africa in northern Spain. Pic of a rock formation in Cantabria, 300km north of Madrid, taken yesterday by our son Alex Doyle. Alex spent first five years of his life in Côte d’Ivoire.