AfricaIs aCountry

Office Talk No.1

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Office Talk No.1

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Africa is a Country

Black Thought, Boots Riley (of the Coup), Jeru da Damaja, Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and others at Pan African Market, Long Street, Cape Town, 2001 [Chimurenga].

Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero slaps Nairobi Women Rep Rachel Shebesh in front of cameras [Grafix TV]*

Jay Z: The African Way [DJ PAPERCUTT]

Making Tracks: Chicago Footwork  [Thump]

I’m an Alien [Rebel Diaz]

Born Free [Village Voice]

How the World Answered the March on Washington [PRI The World]

Follow that bird [Globe and Mail]

Moroccan Brides [African Digital Art]

A baffling silence on the long tail of Apartheid corruption [Business Day]

Liverpool fan left with red face after getting misspelled Kolo Toure tattoo [Metro]

Southie St. Patrick’s Day breakfast slugfest begins early [Boston Globe]

* Some Kenyans thought it would be funny to start a #SlapThemLikeKidero hashtag on Twitter.

Further Reading

The people want to breathe

In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.

After Paul Biya

Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion.

Leapfrogging literacy?

In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.