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.
On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?
Inspired by a tapestry of Bantu folk stories, the video game ‘Tales of Kenzera: Zau’ is rich with mythology that many Africans know as our heritage.
Nigerian comedians are getting political.
How did microfinance become a craze championed by bleeding-heart progressives to Global South economists, American presidents, and business executives?
Select success stories obscure the intentional underdevelopment of women’s football in Africa.
Given his track record of sowing division and making empty promises, South Africans should be wary of treating its new Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture as a lovable buffoon.
A proposed green hydrogen project in Tunisia prioritizes European energy needs over local sovereignty.
The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.
Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.
In South Africa, a popular beauty contest is revealing the specter of ultranationalism and anti-blackness.
Digital activism is playing a significant role in amplifying the impact of the #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #RutoMustGo protests, but how effective can it ultimately be?
The theft dispute between Onezwa Mbola and Nara Smith reveals the consumerist undertones behind content for women in the online creative economy.
In a new film, former UN-Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is portrayed as a defender of a fledgling postcolonial state. But his role in the Congo Crisis is more complicated.
On the tragic death of 24-year-old marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum.
Anti-government protests have spread to Uganda, where ordinary people are tired of passively accepting elite misrule.
Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.
‘Funeral for Justice’ is a bracing recording that blends the critical sensibility of Frantz Fanon with the melodies of a genre born from an ongoing liberation struggle.
Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.
Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.
Amid the turmoil of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, a unique group of individuals has emerged as powerful agents of change.