• Brooks Marmon

The writings of Edson Sithole, Zimbabwe’s forgotten nationalist thinker, reveal both the promise and perils of pan-African politics in the independence era.

• Aziz Salmone Fall

Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.

• Naila Aroni

Recent celebrity investments in the continent raises the question: Who is it really for?

• Coco Em

Amid global political turmoil and restrictive visa policies, artists are redefining resistance—on the dance floor and beyond.

• Herbert Jauch

Namibia’s founding president led the fight for independence with unwavering resolve, but his legacy is complicated by economic compromises and political dominance.

• Kim M. Reynolds

While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?

• Cedric Brown

The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.

• Bonginkosi Ndadane

If South Africa’s Premier Soccer league matters, it is because it’s the country’s most successful pan-Africanist project.

• Maher Mezahi

Our host of the African Five-a-Side podcast kicks off his coverage of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d'Ivoire.

• Alex White

In the 1960s, two African nationalist magazines shared a name—but declassified files reveal that they were on opposite sides of a literary Cold War.

• Ismay Milford

Ismay Milford’s new book takes us into the world of anticolonialism, giving us a rich account of the struggles of a cohort of activists from east and central Africa.

• Jean Allman
• Benjamin Talton

A project - helmed by historians Benjamin Talton and Jean Allman - to archive post-independence African revolutions, including Kwame Nkrumah's personal and professional papers.

• Eric Burton
• Katharina Föger

Many know Frene Ginwala, the iconic anti-apartheid activist, as democratic South Africa’s first speaker of parliament. But few know of her time building pan-African media in Dar Es Salaam.

• Phethani Madzivhandila

Amilcar Cabral’s influence stretched far beyond the Portuguese colonies, profoundly influencing the political struggle in South Africa, past and present.

• Anwār Omeish

Fanon Studies has stubbornly failed to consider how Algeria may illuminate Frantz Fanon’s theoretical commitments.

• P. Anyang’ Nyong’o

Africa's political liberation and economic emancipation can't be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity.

• Shose Kessi

How psychologists can and should become advocates for African and African feminist critiques of academia and of society.

• Boima Tucker

This month on Africa Is a Country Radio we wrap up our seasonal theme of port cities, and make a stop in Dakar, Senegal. Listen on Worldwide FM or Mixcloud.

• Brooks Marmon

Historically, Liberia ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Then it stopped. What happened, and can it be reversed?

• Bright Gyamfi

Kwame Nkrumah’s ideas about pan-Africanism and African liberation inspired many young scholars to explore global linkages around race and power, to uncover historical connections and forge new ones.