It’s that time of year again. The students in my required Media and Culture course at The New School (I have a day job yes) just uploaded their final projects–a short documentary or commentary piece (limit under 5 minutes)–online. Here’s one of them. Student Erik Luers debates the decision by mainstream media organizations to show (or inability to control the exhibition of) the gory images of the murder of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi:
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.
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?
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.
What do computer generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era?
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
When Haiti’s national women’s team take to the field for ninety minutes, they allow the Haitian people to dream.
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?
Incoming Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye is as much outgoing President Macky Sall’s creation as he is Ousmane Sonko’s.
The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.
The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid.
Roy Guthrie was a refrigerator salesman in South Africa before he moved to Zimbabwe and established its largest sculpture park.
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism.
With a coalition government likely after South Africa’s elections in May, many are looking at the West for examples of coalition politics. South Africans, however, should look next door.
When the the Palestinian Men’s National Team played an exhibition match in Cape Town, South Africa, it might as well have been a home game.
To celebrate 20 years of research on sports in Africa, the SportsAfrica network will publish a series of monthly articles on Africa Is a Country drawing on their members’ research.
Today, the Nigeria labor Congress barely commands the respect of Nigerian workers.
La CAN de cette année en Côte d’Ivoire a montré que ce n’est pas seulement la politique du football qui compte, mais aussi la politique de l’ambiance.
We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print.
Why are stories about African suffering so persistent?
Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.