Not only kafala
Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.
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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
The anti-extractivism of Mdou Moctar
‘Funeral for Justice’ is a bracing recording that blends the critical sensibility of Frantz Fanon with the melodies of a genre born from an ongoing liberation struggle.
Who are the Olympics for?
Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.
Who dreams of sunrise?
Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.
Speaking poetry to power
Amid the turmoil of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, a unique group of individuals has emerged as powerful agents of change.
The mad man
As he loses his grip on power, Kenya’s president is losing the plot.
The puzzle as propaganda
At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.
Nairobi’s disastrous flood response
Days before mass protests broke out across Kenya, the national government enacted a mass, unjustified forced removal campaign across Nairobi.
Kenya’s third liberation movement
It’s no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change.
Edson in Accra
It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?
More than Fela’s mum
Bolanle Austen-Peters’ new biopic on Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti often feels too simple and safe.
We are producing, they are eating
Nigeria’s archives of revolutionary printmaking offers us insights into the dissident voices of the country’s old left, which are surprisingly relevant today.
How to defeat the right
The results of France’s snap election show that there is an alternative to right-wing nihilism and business-as-usual centrism.
Dear Mr Ruto
What does it benefit a man to gain a finance bill but lose his country?
Chasing shadows
A docuseries about the Springbok rugby team invites us to examine the enduring legacy of Rainbowism in South Africa.
How to avoid the sixth extinction
Since independence, Botswana has relied on its natural resources. But to secure its future, it needs to turn to its cultural heritage too.
The dreamer
As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams.
France? Nothing good comes of it
In France, the nationalist right wing is ascendant. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the country’s upcoming legislative elections.
Out of the fire
Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.
Who is greening Nairobi?
For some years now, the people of Eastlands in Nairobi have been remaking the city in their own image of green development.