WhatsApp and anti-capitalism: should you stay or should you go?
Facebook and its “family” of services are a one-way street towards greater integration, data exploitation, and erosions of privacy by an increasingly monopolistic company.
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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.
Capitalism is a disease
Anyone who lives in fear of getting sick exists in a state of unfreedom.
More widespread than we think
Today’s social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.
The hustlers of Nairobi
Why is Nairobi’s government terrorizing hawkers and hustlers around the city? An anthropological perspective.
Exit the bulldozer, enter Mama Samia
Has the recent death of Tanzania’s president John Magufuli created new political possibilities?
Football and empire
AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.
A disturbing story
In this interview with Rasna Warah, journalist Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid.
Geographies of war-making in East Africa
African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They’re surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.
The Black Man with the Bible in his Hand
An encounter on a Cape Town bus forces the writer to think about religion, especially Christianity, and queerness.
Man of action
An interview with Brian Peterson, author of a new biography of Thomas Sankara. Peterson positions 1980s Burkina Faso as counterhegemonic to the neoliberal transition then.
What is Capitalism Mtaani?
In the first video from a series for the Capitalism In My City project, Brian Mathenge decodes what everyday capitalism looks like from the margins of Nairobi.
The politics of social welfare
Why are South African government policies benefiting black mothers still controversial?
In search of Ethiopia’s past and present
The film “Finding Sally” grapples with Ethiopia’s past, but may romanticize its present.
The class curse
How is Kenya’s “new middle class” contributing to a pervasive low-quality oppression that leaves Kenyans feeling hopeless?
What’s Left of the South African Left?
This week on AIAC Talk, we’re debating whether the moment is right for South Africa’s left to form a new party. Watch it live on YouTube.
South Africa’s Left needs a new party
Assuming today’s socioeconomic crisis benefits the Left is folly. That will only happen if we have the political vision to make class the fault line of social polarization, and for that we need to face the challenge of constructing a new party.
The king is dead
The death of the Zulu king highlights the unresolved issues that continue to shapes lives in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
The unforeseen threat
Many of Nairobi’s apocalypse merchants and prophesy peddlers have disappeared in the past year. Reflections on how COVID-19 has re-shaped the city and residents’ lives.
Essentialism and the making of African refugees
African “refugeeness” in the media, policy, and academia is an essentialist physical image conflating material deprivation and multiple victimhoods.
The transcendence of boundaries
What kinds of radical emancipatory futures are being imagined in Africa’s speculative fictions?