African cinema into the future
In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?
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Karen Chalamilla
Karen Chalamilla is a culture writer and researcher based in Dar es Salaam.
Alpha Condé, undone
Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea’s recent coup d’état?
Alpha and Omega
AIAC Talk is back, and to kick off our second season we head to Guinea to discuss a crisis of state, institutions and public morality with Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui.
Will Africa be the last oil frontier?
The current run on Africa’s oil resources has strong echoes with the continent’s colonial past. The global movement’s task is to not let corporations get away with it.
Lagos street boys
Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria’s commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.
A just recovery from COVID-19
COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated inequality and insecurity in North Africa’s food systems. But the roots of the current crisis can be found in the legacy of colonialism and new forms of imperialism.
The long term prospects for women’s liberation in Egypt
One year, ten years, one hundred years on, the path for Egypt’s women has not been linear.
After Bouteflika
One of the evolving themes about Algeria’s Hirak movement is how it reinvigorated protest among Algeria’s diaspora, including in the U.S.
While 282 million Africans go to bed hungry every night
More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced.
Curing the Sahara blues
Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.
Netflix Nollywood tackles political corruption in Nigeria
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.
Amílcar Cabral and the limits of utopianism
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.
A legacy beyond the vintage records
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.
Even dogs are racist
A vernacular attempt at a social anthropology of dogs across three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and Canada.
Jivin’ in Joburg
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 here and on Worldwide FM.
A different sort of truth
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s fiction rebukes the Orientalist images of the Muslim world that provided a rationale for the war on terror.