Africa Is a Country

Africa is a Country is getting a makeover

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Africa is a Country is getting a makeover

By
Sean Henry Jacobs

We're updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.

The author in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.

If you’re wondering what this stripped-down design on the blog is all about, we’re getting a new look and will be back soon. Meanwhile, you can visit or sign up to our Facebook and Twitter pages until then or stare at this picture of me chasing some kind of pheasant in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town a few years ago. Update: Neelika says it is an Egyptian goose.

Image: Sean Jacobs.

Further Reading

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?

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.

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.