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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
After defying the state apparatus in March 2021, Senegalese voters sent a strong message of disobedience and sanction via their ballots in January 2022 and signaling their readiness for another regime change in 2024.
The French Ethio-groove group Akalé Wubé has dissolved. For over a decade they have shown how cultural outsiders can considerately engage in music that is not theirs.
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s novel “The Theory of Flight” may be the first to take seriously Zimbabwe’s complicated race politics, beyond the obvious black vs whites.
Why are Ngorongoro’s Maasai at risk of being evicted again? Tanzania’s conservation-tourism industrial complex wants them out.
Why should people be invested in a football game in a bubble called the art world? “Exhibition Match,” a multifaceted installation, explores responses to this question.
Basma Abdel Aziz navigates the blurred boundary between dystopian fiction and reality in Egypt, in her new novel, “Here is a Body.”
If committed filmmakers want to reach and influence more people, and counter fake news, impact producing may help get us there.
Two tourists take a package trip to visit the Hadza people in Tanzania and are so jazzed with what they see, they make a podcast about it. What could go wrong?
Lawyerfication discourse in Ghana ignores the operation of power on the ground and conflates legality with justice.
Urban displacements greatly diminish the living conditions of already desperate populations living on the brink of poverty in Kenya’s capital.
Protracted strikes in Nigeria’s higher public education sector lay bare nefarious efforts by the ruling class to entrench privatization.
Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?
To compensate for its possible isolation by the West, Russia could turn its attention to Africa, making the continent the next center stage for imperialist struggles.
The legacy of soap operas and state of television in South Africa. Now it is being exported to streaming services like Netflix for everyone everywhere to see.
The leading political formations in Kenya’s 2022 elections are born of each other, the result of many profound compromises, and this in part explains the blankness.
Is class still a useful category for understanding capitalism and oppression? We discuss with Vivek Chibber on our podcast. Listen.
We can do more than tell young African girls to work hard in school. We need a real plan for the fully self-actualized people we want them to be.
On AIAC Radio, DJ Ripley aka Professor Larisa Mann, talks about her new book “Rude Citizenship” on copyright and the colonial legacy in Jamaica.
South African discourse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continually references Soviet support for the exiled ANC. But the past is more complicated than official Russian and South African statements suggest.
David Samaai was the first black (and coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949. He was 21 years old. He did so before the Americans, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.