• Culture

05.02.2024

The aesthetics of nostalgia

• Anakwa Dwamena

Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.

• Politics

05.01.2024

Is the war on Gaza a genocide?

• Amos Goldberg

From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.

• Politics

04.30.2024

The Mogadishu analogy

• Faisal Ali

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

• SPORTS
• Culture

04.29.2024

The two religions of Tanzania

• Alasdair Howorth

Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.

• Politics

04.27.2024

Born free?

• Sazi Bongwe

South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.

• Culture

04.26.2024

Buying back our things

• Aziz Faarah

One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.

• Politics

04.25.2024

Kwame Nkrumah today

• Yao Graham

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.

• Culture

04.23.2024

More than just victims

• Mariam Ben Slama

To see Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film as condoning the West’s orientalism is to to ignore the agency of the women in it.

• Politics

04.22.2024

Is the UN system still relevant?

• Maren Mantovani

We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment.

• Culture

04.19.2024

When we say apartheid

• Haidar Eid

We need to envisage a future where colonial privileges between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea are completely dismantled.

• Politics

04.19.2024

No scrubs

• Kamande Kinyanjui

Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike?

• Politics

04.18.2024

What are academic boycotts for?

• Maya Wind

Far from democratic institutions, a study of Israeli universities reveals that they are, in fact, directly and actively complicit in Israeli apartheid and racial rule.

• Politics

04.17.2024

Between M23 and electric vehicles

• Bossissi Nkuba
• Liliane Nabintu Kabagale

With regional and global powers keen to take advantage of the DRC’s mineral wealth, it is hard to see how things can get better for the country in the short and medium term.

• Culture

04.15.2024

Whose Biennale is it anyway?

• Laura Burocco

The theme for this year’s Venice Biennale, the ‘olympics of the art world’ is ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ But beyond representation, what are the barriers to participation?

• SPORTS
• TV
• Culture

04.12.2024

Post-Afcon blues

• Maher Mezahi

Who else sorely misses the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations? Re-live the excitement from the stands in a short video by the AIAC team.

• Culture

04.10.2024

When a black viking meets a black slave trader

• Arsenii Alenichev
• Patricia Kingori
• Koen Peeters Grietens

What do computer generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era?

• Politics

04.09.2024

Border politics

• Jan Bornman

Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.

• SPORTS
• Culture

04.08.2024

Allez Les Grenadières

• Magdala Louis

When Haiti’s national women’s team take to the field for ninety minutes, they allow the Haitian people to dream.

• Politics

04.04.2024

Speaking as one African to another

• Emma Daitz

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?

• Politics

04.03.2024

The people’s coup

• Ayisha Osori

Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.