Holding living bodies in graveyards
The violence of keeping Ethiopian manuscripts in Western institutions.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Reflections on an imploding empire
Americans should recognize that White supremacy does not love White folks.
Making the city possible
Re-visiting Nairobi’s urban history offers a glimpse into the forces that shaped modern life.
More morbid symptoms
Much of what passes for politics these days is actually just anti-politics: not a function of too much politicization, but a severe lack of it.
The politics of vaccines
On the latest episode of AIAC TV, we discuss the COVID 19 vaccine with Achal Prabhala and Indira Govender. Watch now on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
The tragic delusions of white exceptionalism
At another historical inflection point, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized white Americans’ delusions as the property of the West more broadly.
We work like elephants, and eat like ants
The weakening of Nigeria’s oil trade unions has a devastating impact on workers. Now workers are paid by Shell and others to sabotage union strikes and actions.
Museveni and the Americans
The United States must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.
Stop selling out
Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.
Women’s liberation and media in post-independence Tanzania
Fatma Alloo (of the Tanzania Media Women’s Association) on how women used the media and cultural spaces to organize and challenge gender norms.
Removing a dictator
How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda’s future? And what are the consequences?
On Safari
What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.
A Port of Spain Christmas
On Christmas Day, AIAC Radio heads to Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate a unique Black Atlantic tradition.
The problem with generalizations
Despite the media’s wish for a neat story, the African continent’s response to COVID-19 is all over the map.
The legacy of violence in the struggle for South Africa
An excerpt of an essay, titled “Nongoloza’s Ghost,” in Lapham’s Quarterly. It’s published in partnership with Africa Is a Country.
Renewable energy’s dark side
As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who’s profiting.
A Cuban individual
A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party’s agenda.
Notes on fake decolonization
What counts as “authentic” decolonization as the term takes over our social media and influencer bubbles? And how we can sharpen our activism.
Diego Maradona, anti-imperial symbol
For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.
We will learn for free and by force
Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.