How Indian cinema shaped East Africa’s urban culture
The 60s, 70s, and 80s are often described as the Golden Age of Indian cinema and Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu had a large number of cinemas devoted to showing films made in Bombay.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
The death of an exceptional woman
The cruel and lonely COVID-19 death of the South African land and rural women’s activist, Siza Ngubane.
The afterlives of indenture
South Africa’s history of indentured labor leaves behind a legacy of violence against women among the country’s South Asian population.
Water is life
How is it that water flows freely and cheaply in Nairobi’s wealthy neighborhoods, but thousands of people in informal settlements are denied access to it?
The weaponization of memory in Burundi
Prince Louis Rwagasore, also known as “Burundi’s Lumumba,” has been reduced to a political tool by the country’s elite, but artists are doing his legacy justice.
A Black woman in Bali
During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?
Remembering Benjamin
The duty to remember the brutal murder of 15-year old Ghanaian-Norwegian, Benjamin Hermansen, and to intensify the battle against racism in Norway.
The forgotten history of migration to Africa
While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.
The complete revolutionary
This week’s AIAC Talk is devoted to the life, thought, and legacy of Amílcar Cabral. Watch on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter, and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
Death by pesticide
How pesticides banned in the European Union continue to be sold in Kenya, and with devastating impact.
A gateway to the Black Indian Ocean
On this month’s AIAC Radio we take a visit to Djibouti and explore music cultures around the Indian Ocean that resulted from a long history of Asian and African exchange. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.
Painting personal histories
The painter Cassi Namoda situates herself squarely in the artistic history of Mozambique, especially its rich tradition of anticolonial photography, as she turns outwards to the world.
Holding living bodies in graveyards
The violence of keeping Ethiopian manuscripts in Western institutions.
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.