Beyond humanitarian aid
The war in Sudan shows how during conflict, the internet is as critical as food or medicine.
Internet
The keyboard warriors are winning
Digital activism is playing a significant role in amplifying the impact of the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo protests, but how effective can it ultimately be?
Food wars
The theft dispute between Onezwa Mbola and Nara Smith reveals the consumerist undertones behind content for women in the online creative economy.
Let it burn
Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.
What is whiteness to a cyborg?
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
Tuning surveillance software with African faces
Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?
Buying, Swapping and Selling domestic workers
The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.
#SAHipHop2014: When South African Hip Hop Met The Internet
It’s all my father’s fault! Sometime towards the end of the nineties, I remember him bringing
Issa Rae: Internet Celebrity
Whether there will be an "Awkward Black Girl" movie or not, Issa Rae has impacted black television without ever being on television.
Swag, Swag, #Swag
I have been a little silent lately here on AIAC. I’m gonna start posting more, although
When videos of abuses by police go viral in Angola
It marks the first time that videos went truly viral in a country in which only about 5% of the population has access to the internet.
Today I'll eat for Belgium
Yes, some Europeans, specifically Belgians — who else but “a fine group of web designers, web
F***yesafricans
Someone started a a page called fuckyesafricans in the vein of the “fuckyes” tumblr meme. For
Strawberries and Peri-Peri
The website of South Africa’s ruling party was down for a minute after hackers took it
The World According to Facebook
Facebook intern Paul Butler, who created the map, writes that he wanted to see “how geography
Moçambique Popular
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.
Africa, Now With Internet
Does it sometimes seem like all technology and internet-related projects in and on Africa have to serve some grand purpose?