Sipho Kings
@siphok.bsky.social
Publisher and co-founder, The Continent newspaper - A quality weekly African paper straight to your device.
Exciting thing alert - The next pilot of The Friday Paper comes out this very Friday, 7 November.
To get your hands on some quality South African journalism here's the link tally.so/r/mKbdeD
To get your hands on some quality South African journalism here's the link tally.so/r/mKbdeD
Welcome to The Friday Paper.
Subscribe - at no cost, and with no passwords - to South Africa's newest national newspaper.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Exciting thing alert - The next pilot of The Friday Paper comes out this very Friday, 7 November.
To get your hands on some quality South African journalism here's the link tally.so/r/mKbdeD
To get your hands on some quality South African journalism here's the link tally.so/r/mKbdeD
Chatted to @reutersinstitute.bsky.social about why we launched a new newspaper, @thefridaypaper.bsky.social - and how our learnings from The Continent have created the space for us to do this.
As a long-time reader of @thecontinent.org, I'm excited to see their new pub!
Interview with @siphok.bsky.social about the new @thefridaypaper.bsky.social here:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/pan-afr... @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
Interview with @siphok.bsky.social about the new @thefridaypaper.bsky.social here:
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/pan-afr... @reutersinstitute.bsky.social
From pan-African to South African: The team behind 'The Continent' launches a second WhatsApp newspaper
The Friday Paper’s first edition opens with the story of a theft: the theft of the newspaper. Or, more accurately, of the laptop on which the final version of the pilot edition was stored. Fortunately...
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Chatted to @reutersinstitute.bsky.social about why we launched a new newspaper, @thefridaypaper.bsky.social - and how our learnings from The Continent have created the space for us to do this.
Given the corruption in the West, it’s wild how people in its institutions can talk about that corruption without using the word corruption.
Makes your brain want to tear in half.
One thing I love about South Africa is that people ain’t afraid to call a spade a spade.
Makes your brain want to tear in half.
One thing I love about South Africa is that people ain’t afraid to call a spade a spade.
April 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Given the corruption in the West, it’s wild how people in its institutions can talk about that corruption without using the word corruption.
Makes your brain want to tear in half.
One thing I love about South Africa is that people ain’t afraid to call a spade a spade.
Makes your brain want to tear in half.
One thing I love about South Africa is that people ain’t afraid to call a spade a spade.
So many conversations are universal. Chats about people doing humans things. Mundane chats. Big picture chats.
We have more in common than the algorithms and power-grabbers would like us to think.
We have more in common than the algorithms and power-grabbers would like us to think.
April 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So many conversations are universal. Chats about people doing humans things. Mundane chats. Big picture chats.
We have more in common than the algorithms and power-grabbers would like us to think.
We have more in common than the algorithms and power-grabbers would like us to think.
Chatbots out there taking over a role white men used to monopolise.
Via www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... @columjournreview.bsky.social
Via www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... @columjournreview.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Chatbots out there taking over a role white men used to monopolise.
Via www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... @columjournreview.bsky.social
Via www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... @columjournreview.bsky.social
Robots and AI would probably be cool if they didn’t arrive in a world built to enrich billionaires.
March 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Robots and AI would probably be cool if they didn’t arrive in a world built to enrich billionaires.
What I don’t understand about Americans is that they keep making jerky when Biltong exists.
March 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
What I don’t understand about Americans is that they keep making jerky when Biltong exists.
Our @thecontinent.org newspaper cover from June 2020. The more things change the ...
March 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Our @thecontinent.org newspaper cover from June 2020. The more things change the ...
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We are just shy of our goal of 30 000 subscribers - 70 people to be exact. Top shelf journalism about Africa from African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors is right here. For free. Sign up, or pass it on to someone who’d appreciate it.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We are just shy of our goal of 30 000 subscribers - 70 people to be exact. Top shelf journalism about Africa from African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors is right here. For free. Sign up, or pass it on to someone who’d appreciate it.
Newspapers need more illustrations, photographs and cartoons.
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has been chosen to chair the AU. As Djibouti’s foreign minister for 20 years, he practised ‘military base diplomacy’, through which Djibouti came to host troops from China, the US, France, Italy, Japan and Saudi Arabia along the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, a Suez Canal entryway.
February 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Newspapers need more illustrations, photographs and cartoons.
Meet this moment with more quality journalism.
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Meet this moment with more quality journalism.
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
February 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 189 of The Continent.
M23 fighters are marching on to take a second city in the DRC. The Tanzanian president is hosting a leader’s conference to address the crisis. But Tanzania is not a disinterested party.
Read it here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
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After DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, drove down the stock prices of Silicon Valley AI companies, they accused it of being all the things they are. OpenAI says DeepSeek devs stole its work. Critics say it has its makers’ biases and won’t answer pesky questions about Tibet. In other words: it is AI.
February 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
After DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, drove down the stock prices of Silicon Valley AI companies, they accused it of being all the things they are. OpenAI says DeepSeek devs stole its work. Critics say it has its makers’ biases and won’t answer pesky questions about Tibet. In other words: it is AI.
Yet another example of why news dies when it relies on the algorithms of others to get to people - Meta doesn’t care about public interest www.bbc.com/news/article...
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
www.bbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Yet another example of why news dies when it relies on the algorithms of others to get to people - Meta doesn’t care about public interest www.bbc.com/news/article...
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All Protocol Observed.
It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism.
It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism.
The Continent Reader Survey 2024
All protocol observed.
Our goal is for The Continent to be the most important source of African news for anyone, anywhere. To get there, we need your help and we want to learn from you.
When we sta...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:02 AM
All Protocol Observed.
It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism.
It’s your turn to take the mic: please respond to our survey on how we fared in 2024. This helps us to improve the newspaper. It also helps us to make the case for the funding that allows us to keep doing quality journalism.
At its best, journalism tells us a bit more about the world around us, and the people we share it with. We need more empathy.
This is my favourite response so far to our @thecontinent.org Big Annual Survey™. And I love that someone shared it with us.
This is my favourite response so far to our @thecontinent.org Big Annual Survey™. And I love that someone shared it with us.
December 10, 2024 at 2:40 PM
At its best, journalism tells us a bit more about the world around us, and the people we share it with. We need more empathy.
This is my favourite response so far to our @thecontinent.org Big Annual Survey™. And I love that someone shared it with us.
This is my favourite response so far to our @thecontinent.org Big Annual Survey™. And I love that someone shared it with us.
Our era will be remembered in the weight of tote bags left behind.
December 10, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Our era will be remembered in the weight of tote bags left behind.
The @thecontinent.org’s growth to 23,000 subscribers has been entirely organic. Based on our readers sharing the newspaper. No algorithms. No search engine gaming.
If you’re a reader, we want to know how we can improve. Please do our survey.
If you’re a reader, we want to know how we can improve. Please do our survey.
Before you down tools for the holidays, please fill out our annual reader survey. Your responses will help us make the newspaper even better.
The Continent Reader Survey 2024
All protocol observed.
Our goal is for The Continent to be the most important source of African news for anyone, anywhere. To get there, we need your help and we want to learn from you.
When we sta...
docs.google.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:38 AM
The @thecontinent.org’s growth to 23,000 subscribers has been entirely organic. Based on our readers sharing the newspaper. No algorithms. No search engine gaming.
If you’re a reader, we want to know how we can improve. Please do our survey.
If you’re a reader, we want to know how we can improve. Please do our survey.
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Chad and Senegal are the latest Francophone African countries to re-align their relationship with France, underscoring how injustices by former colonial governments serve as a potent political force. My latest in @thecontinent.org with many thanks to @simonallison.bsky.social and @namlyd.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Chad and Senegal are the latest Francophone African countries to re-align their relationship with France, underscoring how injustices by former colonial governments serve as a potent political force. My latest in @thecontinent.org with many thanks to @simonallison.bsky.social and @namlyd.bsky.social
Our @thecontinent.org newsroom has been around for nearly five years. We've worker remotely that entire time, with staff in six countries. That's hard. Really hard. It's also a testament to hiring great people (like our illustrator Wynona) and giving them space to do their thing.
December 3, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Our @thecontinent.org newsroom has been around for nearly five years. We've worker remotely that entire time, with staff in six countries. That's hard. Really hard. It's also a testament to hiring great people (like our illustrator Wynona) and giving them space to do their thing.
We’ll be reading newspapers on Mars.
November 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM
We’ll be reading newspapers on Mars.
Made my first pumpkin thing. Admittedly, this was a while ago. But something something slow news.
November 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Made my first pumpkin thing. Admittedly, this was a while ago. But something something slow news.
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People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa.
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All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
November 23, 2024 at 12:43 PM
People of Bluesky - @thecontinent.bsky.social is your thing: a *finishable* weekly English-language paper, readable in Signal/WhatsApp, full of crisp, excellent #journalism from across #Africa.
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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I don't know how else to put it but I love the way The Continent is written with the reader in mind.
All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
Welcome to Issue 183 of The Continent.
This week, we travel to Beitbridge, where movement is free for the right price.
Get your free copy here: bit.ly/TheContinent...
November 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
I don't know how else to put it but I love the way The Continent is written with the reader in mind.
Are you looking for quality African journalism, and you miss the curation that comes from weekly newspapers?
We got you.
Subscribe and get a free newspaper each week. It’s built to look great on the device you read on.
And sometimes we put mermaids on the cover.
We got you.
Subscribe and get a free newspaper each week. It’s built to look great on the device you read on.
And sometimes we put mermaids on the cover.
All Protocol Observed.
Welcome to Issue 170 of The Continent.
During South Africa’s apartheid era, the government’s commitment to racism was sprawling and staggering.
Welcome to Issue 170 of The Continent.
During South Africa’s apartheid era, the government’s commitment to racism was sprawling and staggering.
August 15, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Are you looking for quality African journalism, and you miss the curation that comes from weekly newspapers?
We got you.
Subscribe and get a free newspaper each week. It’s built to look great on the device you read on.
And sometimes we put mermaids on the cover.
We got you.
Subscribe and get a free newspaper each week. It’s built to look great on the device you read on.
And sometimes we put mermaids on the cover.