Nigeria’s movement against brutality and poverty
The background to the #EndSARS protests and celebrating a movement that challenges Nigeria’s ruling class.
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When Americans took a global health crisis seriously
Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.
Africa’s forgotten refugee convention
In 1969, the OAU proposed its own refugee convention to reflect African values. Why did it not become policy across the continent?
Coming to America?
In the shadow of the US election, this Tuesday on AIAC Talk, we talk African immigration to the United States with Abraham Zere and Aya Saed.
Energy transitions and colonialism
Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination.
Blackness in Amsterdam
At the largest gathering of black people he had ever seen together in Amsterdam, the author, originally from Kenya, wonder why they knew so little of each other.
Kenyan statues must fall
What could or should full decolonization in Kenya look like?
Guinea’s authoritarian afterlives
The recent election has led to violence and general pandemonium. An explosion of independent journalism offers hope.
Dismantling and transcending colonialism’s legacy
Nkrumah, Nyerere and Senghor were acutely aware of the need to displace the epistemic conditions of colonization in order to transcend it.
Neocolonization on a plate, with a soda to go
The risk of obesity increases with socioeconomic status in several African countries, unlike in their European counterparts with comparable income levels.
Décoloniser la littérature africaine
Les études littéraires africaines devraient donner plus d'espace aux nombreux écrivains vivant sur le continent, dans les langues africaines.
Decolonizing African literature begins with language
Senegalese writer, Boubacar Boris Diop, on the problematic circuits of teaching African literature first legitimized in Europe in African universities