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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Africans have been decolonizing, critiquing, but also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times. Pro-democracy and decolonial intellectuals owe a debt to this body of work and can learn from it.
The author of ‘Decolonize Museums’ assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.
The crime drama ‘Reyka’ looks at violence in the troubled South African province.
Rwandan-Namibian writer and founder of Doek! arts organization shares his sober routine and dramatic daydreams.
September’s coup is Burkina Faso’s second of the year, and its another one with popular support. Why did it happen?
The spread of Garveyism from the US to Africa was as much about political liberation as it was religious salvation.
AfriForum is no longer on the political fringe in South Africa, rather it’s key in perpetuating increasingly mainstream, right-wing populism.
This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss a new posthumous collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainana.
Former Africa Is a Country fellow, Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo, based in Ouagadougou talks to Bamba Ndiaye of The Africanist Podcast on the general situation in Burkina Faso the day after the coup there.
Yoruba political ontology, non-competitive democracy, and the sacrality of power in Nigeria.
African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.
The award-winning South African author Melinda Ferguson takes us through a selection of books exploring freedom, death, truth, as well as psychedelics, which can be a route to pondering such big questions.
Sahrawis are robbed of their agency by a zero sum game for influence between two regional rivals Morocco and Algeria.
Business fraud and illicit financial flows are not a new problem for Africa—the “Drevici Affair” in Nkrumah’s Ghana is instructive.
We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.
African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.
In South Africa, land occupiers are evicted from their homes in the name of housing delivery. On the Africa Is a Country Podcast this week, we attempt to understand why.
The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.
Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.
Anxious and isolated, living in poverty or financial precarity, we sink into ourselves and adopt self-destructive coping mechanisms.