'The Most Phenomenal Finale'
I don’t watch much rugby these days, but the final moments of the cup final the 2011 Edinburgh IRB Rugby Sevens Festival between Australia and South Africa a week ago is worth reliving.
Further Reading
When the crowds go home
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
Struggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.
A barren sowing
Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.
From Cape To Cairo
When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?
De-dollarization from below?
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.
Everyday Iranians
Between Israeli bombs and state repression, ordinary Iranians are once again denied control over their own future.
The road to Rafah
The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.
Critical mass
Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.
Sinners and ancestors
Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.
The verdict against womanhood
From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.
It’s Gianni’s world (cup)…
On the eve of the kick off of FIFA’s newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?
Firearms aren’t the only weapons
The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the independence struggle. They are now available in English.
As armas não só de fogo
Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.
Mozambique’s mid-life crisis
After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?
Moçambique em crise de meia idade
Depois de 50 anos de independência em Moçambique: o quê e como celebrar?
Return the gods
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
The end of AGOA
A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.
Goïta, gift to the insurgents
Despite the popularity of the Sahel’s military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.
Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology
Africa’s biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
Between Washington and Beijing
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.