Idi Amin, TV Star
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This is also Found Object, Number 15
as Uganda’s dictator Idi Amin Dada on his short-lived 1977 TV sketch comedy show on the American network channel, NBC.
Further Reading
The specter of Bandung
Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.
Matchday 2: The Battle of Omdurman
A new season of the African Five-a-side podcast asks, “what is the greatest match in the history of men’s African football?”
Kagame’s hidden war
Rwanda’s military deployments in Mozambique and its shadowy ties to M23 rebels in eastern Congo are not isolated interventions, rather part of a broader geopolitical strategy to expand its regional influence.
Against climate resilience
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
After the coups
Without institutional foundations or credible partners, the Alliance of Sahel States risks becoming the latest failed experiment in regional integration.
The quiet violence of peace deals
Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.
In death, we part
What happens when a former president suddenly dies? The curious case of Edgar Lungu.
Whose game is remembered?
The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.
The sound of black identity
A landmark documentary uncovers the radical soul scene that electrified 1970s Rio, inspired Black consciousness, and terrified Brazil’s military dictatorship.
No ritmo da identidade black
Um documentário marcante revela a cena soul radical que eletrificou o Rio dos anos 1970, inspirou a consciência negra e aterrorizou a ditadura militar brasileira.
Sovereignty or supremacy?
As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.
Afrophobic metamorphosis
Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.
The world isn’t broken, it was built this way
From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.
Madaniaao: Answering the wrong question of the Sudanese Revolution
Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.
Africa’s last neoliberals
As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture —and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?
When the crowds go home
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
Struggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.
A barren sowing
Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.
From Cape To Cairo
When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?
De-dollarization from below?
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.