The myth of French republicanism
In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.
In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.
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.
Policing in postcolonial Kenya is at an impasse. What is needed is disinvestment from this system of repression and reinvestment in communities.
Uganda’s rulers don’t get that clobbering words is impossible. The pen will escape every hammer, and cross borders to haunt oppressors, even if the authors are no longer around.
South African policing is a tool of social control and repression. Are democratic and humanistic alternatives possible? This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss.
We know an enormous amount about what precipitated the 2012 Marikana massacre, but relatively little about what is behind the violence there since.
We have to become more open to the possibility that what our society needs is not better policing, but less. And ultimately no policing at all.
A new book on policing in South Africa wants to go beyond the usual call for reform. But adapting literature tuned for reform to the task of abolition is a difficult needle to thread.
The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.
How the international soundtrack to Black Lives Matter critiques the present by reworking the past.
In Nigeria, we should train and empower communities to participate in security measures, rather than arming militias.
South Africans fight for “adequate housing,” freedom from eviction, and a government that will progressively realize both of these goals.
AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.
An examination of South African statistics reveal that the police are substantially more violent than those in the US or Canada.
On surviving the Khartoum massacre and trying to make sense of what remains from Sudan’s revolution.
Could the enduring effects of #EndSARS be the beginning of a broad alliance against an irresponsible political elite that has shirked all pretensions of being responsible to the people?
How has Nigeria’s film industry responded to the protests of #EndSARS?
What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa?
Was the #EndSARS protests a victory or a defeat for the country's popular masses?
The recent #EndSARS protest in Nigeria reveals how young people carve out agency in the context of Nigeria's dysfunctional and violent state.