• Politics

09.17.2021

Curing the Sahara blues

• Scott Remer

Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.

• Culture

09.17.2021

Netflix Nollywood tackles political corruption in Nigeria

• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained—if ultimately pessimistic—critique of Nigerian corruption.

• Culture

09.15.2021

Amílcar Cabral and the limits of utopianism

• Sindre Bangstad

Antonio Tomás’ new book on Amilcar Cabral takes us back to the crucible of decolonization and permits us to assess its aspirations and limitations anew.

• Culture

09.14.2021

A legacy beyond the vintage records

• Philipp Schütz

The late Alemayehu Eshete, and musical contemporaries like Mulatu Astatke and Girma Beyene worked around huge obstacles to create a unique Ethiopian sound and make it global.

• Culture

09.14.2021

Even dogs are racist

• Sakiru Adebayo

A vernacular attempt at a social anthropology of dogs across three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and Canada.

• AIAC RADIO
• Culture

09.13.2021

Jivin’ in Johannesburg

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Johannesburg with South African journalist Sean O’Toole. Listen on Worldwide FM.

• Culture

09.13.2021

A different sort of truth

• Alexander Hartwiger

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fiction rebukes the Orientalist images of the Muslim world that provided a rationale for the war on terror.

• Updates

08.08.2021

On Safari

• Sean Jacobs

Every year, around this time, we take a month long break from publishing. We need it.

• Culture

08.04.2021

Christianity and new queer African imaginations

• Adriaan van Klinken
• Ezra Chitando

The leading African writers and creative artists who are reimagining Christian thought and the several Christian-inspired groups who are transforming religious practice.

• Politics

08.04.2021

No two elephants are alike

• Ryan Brunette

The July riots in South Africa felt similar to those by Peronists in Argentina in December 2001. But Zuma’s people are moving from a much weaker position.

• Ancestors
• Culture

08.03.2021

Sound Sultan’s political music

• Rasaq Malik

Sound Sultan, who died of cancer in July 2021, battled with the cankerworm of bad leadership and outright violations of rules of law in his homeland, Nigeria, through his songs.

• Culture

08.03.2021

It’s never just about the music

• Liam Brickhill

Vinyl reissues are about engaging in a fight against forgetting much more than music. Gideon Nxumalo and Spirits Rejoice’s music is transcendent of repressive daily conditions.

• Culture

08.02.2021

The exilic geographies of the South

• Benjamin N. Lawrance
• Vusumuzi R. Kumalo

Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.

• Culture

08.02.2021

Wolf in shepherd’s clothing

• Peter Lockhood

Kenya’s elites, including the church, use ponzi schemes for predatory accumulation and Kenyans will continue to see their dreams deferred if the law doesn’t change.

• Politics

08.01.2021

Freedom and the struggle for dignity in South Africa

• Franziska Rueedi

Within a context of spiraling poverty and inequality in South Africa, the lessons of uprisings in the 1980s are well worth revisiting. For millions of people, their socioeconomic demands remain unfulfilled.

• Politics

08.01.2021

A terrifying vision of South Africa’s future

• Niall Reddy

If South Africa’s Left can’t find a way to channel popular discontentment into the building of mass progressive movements, it will instead morph into anarchy, nativism and, inevitably, authoritarianism.

• AIAC SPORTS

07.31.2021

South Africa’s fatigued and narcissistic nation-building discourse

• Oliver Layman

Springbok rugby projects itself as progress, but preserves the way things are in the popular consciousness of South Africans.

• Politics

07.30.2021

Appeasing disgruntled critics

• Yotam Gidron

Israel’s success in getting observer status at the African Union is also a sign of the growing lack of interest among African leaders in the Palestinian issue altogether.

• Culture

07.30.2021

Who will start another fire?

• Sara Hanaburgh

An interview with Kate Gondwe, Founder and President of Dedza Films, on a groundbreaking distribution initiative committed to supporting the next wave of emerging filmmakers and communities.

• Politics

07.29.2021

Análise da gestão da COVID-19

• Olívio N'kilumbu

Em Angola, o governo de Presidente Lourenço não conseguiu resolver a pandemia de COVID-19 devido a corrupção e incompetência.