How not to save the planet
In this, the first of a series of posts, we critically look at the implications of climate policy in the most powerful Western country for Africans.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Pan-Africanism begins at home
Official Ghanaian pan-Africanism is now less motivated by African liberation and solidarity and more by profit incentives. Ghana’s Year of Return is the best example of this.
Nkrumah’s legacy
This week on our livestream show, we focus on the legacy of Kwame Nkrumah. Stream it live Tuesdays on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the podcast archive.
The rising lakes of the Rift Valley
How climate change is threatening lives in Kenya.
Eritrea’s deteriorating state
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
Challenging whiteness in South Africa
White South Africans rarely look in the proverbial mirror to reflect on where they come from and how those histories shape their current realities.
The culture wars are a distraction
When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit.
After the monuments have been removed
Senegalese writer Mbougar Sarr on how we are actually informed about symbols we want to bring down, and about those we wish to commemorate.
Introducing ‘AIAC Talk’
Africa Is a Country is proud to announce the official launch of the AIAC Talk livestream show.
The violence in Ethiopia
The imminent and existential danger to Ethiopia is not Abiy Ahmed and an oppressive government. It is violent ethno-nationalism.
A ‘simple African’ revolutionary
Amilcar Cabral remains inspirational for Africans and non-Africans challenged by injustice and oppression.
What Chinese people eat
News reports claiming that “wet markets” in Asia are the source of the coronavirus obscure the fact that the consumption of wild animals is common in the West.
Sadio Mané, made outside Africa
The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game.
Sadio Mane is a Senegalese (Fairtrade) brand
What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.
More than a two-dimensional African celebrity
A new documentary about Liverpool FC striker, Sadio Mane, is watchable, but suffers from the fallacy that sports and politics don’t mix.
Structural adjustment comes home
Americans could learn a thing or two from Africans’ history of resisting structural adjustment policies.
Carceral feminism is not the answer
We need to reimagine our conceptions of feminist justice in South Africa: Putting people in cages is not liberation.
Nigeria’s faltering anti-corruption war
The recent suspension of Nigeria’s anti-corruption tsar provides an opportunity to re-assess the country’s anti-corruption approach.
Religion outside the law
Some churches in South Africa have become embroiled with criminal economies.
David Graeber, Africanist
David Graeber (1961-2020) started his career as a scholar studying Madagascar, which informed his ideas about anarchism, debt, and globalization.