We’re live on Groovilizacion. The host is our own Chief Boima, presenting from his new base in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (BTW, check out his first piece of writing from there: on Brazilian popular music.) The format of Africa is a Country Radio is a monthly round up of audio treats from around Africa and its diaspora with occasional commentary from our community of writers.

The first episode went up on Groovalizacion this afternoon.

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.