• Luis Castellví Laukamp

Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.

• Maher Mezahi

France and Algeria remain locked in a cycle of reconciliation and rupture as the wounds of colonization continue to shape their uneasy relationship.

• Maher Mezahi

This week, Kamel Daoud became the first Algerian to receive France’s most prestigious literary honor. Yet, in Algeria, no one seems to care.

• Naima Kane

Mati Diop’s 'Dahomey' isn’t solely concerned with the subject of repatriating Beninese artifacts, but with returning the debate to the Beninese themselves.

• Maher Mezahi

Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.

• Harrison Stetler

The results of France's snap election show that there is an alternative to right-wing nihilism and business-as-usual centrism.

• William Shoki

In France, the nationalist right wing is ascendant. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the country’s upcoming legislative elections.

• Soni Brown

On the island of Fanon’s birth, French colonial violence persists.

• Maher Mezahi

At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.

• Mbaye Bashir Lo

France is not a new problem for Africa. Since the 19th century, it has stood in the way of the continent’s self-determination.

• Polo B. Moji

In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.

• Mustapha Saha

The reaction to Nahel Merzouk’s murder by the French state showcases its tactic of depoliticizing the suburban uprising and diverting attention away from state violence.

• Amber Sweat

The state-sanctioned violence committed against children such as Nahel M forces us to revisit the very question of childhood, its privileges, and its roots in the French imperialization of Africa.

• Valmont Layne

A new film by French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis uncovers how American jazz giant, Thelonious Monk, was disrespected by French media at the end of his European tour in 1969.

• William Shoki

Government’s around the world are talking about tightening their belts. Austerity is a common economic policy, but what is it actually? On the podcast, we discuss.

• Sarah K. Miles

In its first few years, the magazine 'Révolution Africaine' opened possibilities for Franco-Algerian cooperation. It was then co-opted by the state.

• Mathijs Cazemier

The excessive reporting of the interplay between non-African powers in the Sahel—however crucial it may be to understand regional dynamics—betrays a Western-centric bias in international news coverage.

• Amber Sweat

In ‘Black Girl’ (1966) and ‘Cuties’ (2020), M'Bissine T. Diop is a cautionary figure who warns of colonialism's wounds and afterlives for Black girl belonging in the present day.

• Mathijs Cazemier

For French President, Emmanuel Macron, recruiting various African intellectuals turned out to be a key asset in trying to shift the Françafrique narrative, while simultaneously protecting French interests on the continent.

• Alessandro De Cola

What foot does Italy’s neo-Fascist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, stand on to lecture France on its monetary colonialism in Africa?