• Mona Hakimi

It’s not common knowledge that there is Iran in Africa and there is Africa in Iran. But there are commonplace signs of this connection.

• Maya Bhardwaj

Queer Indians are largely invisible in South Africa's LGBT discourse. But representation is not enough, we need political transformation and multi-racial class solidarity.

• William Shoki

Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.

• Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso

How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?

• Khanya Mtshali

Although films like 'The Woman King' offer us a small glimpse into the past, they cannot give us the full story.

• Jill E. Kelly
• Jabulani Sithole

New Zulu king Misuzulu's strategy for ensuring the relevance of his monarchy copies from the Windsors in Britain: use the media.

• Bronwen Mehta

Political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s collection of writings are a powerful and evocative reminder that democracy in Egypt remains a bleak prospect.

• Moses E. Ochonu

Africans have been decolonizing, critiquing, but also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times. Pro-democracy and decolonial intellectuals owe a debt to this body of work and can learn from it.

• Shimrit Lee

The author of 'Decolonize Museums' assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.

• Christopher McMichael

The crime drama 'Reyka' looks at violence in the troubled South African province.

• Rémy Ngamije

Rwandan-Namibian writer and founder of Doek! arts organization shares his sober routine and dramatic daydreams.

• Robert Trent Vinson

The spread of Garveyism from the US to Africa was as much about political liberation as it was religious salvation.

• William Shoki

This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss a new posthumous collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainana.

• Ayodeji Ogunnaike

Yoruba political ontology, non-competitive democracy, and the sacrality of power in Nigeria.

• Melinda Ferguson

The award-winning South African author Melinda Ferguson takes us through a selection of books exploring freedom, death, truth, as well as psychedelics, which can be a route to pondering such big questions.

• Oludamini Ogunnaike

We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.

• Edna Bonhomme

The author writes about books whose true power comes from excavating the perennial endemic diseases that never leave our sight.

• Esther A. Armah

Existing models of racial healing center whiteness and demand the emotional labor of Black folk, fetishizing reconciliation but forsaking justice.

• Boima Tucker

On the last episode of our sports and music series on Africa Is a Country Radio, we visit with Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon of the Eleven Named People podcast to preview the 2022 men's World Cup football tournament.

• Sanya Osha

For philosophy to be relevant in Africa, it must democratize and address contemporary social problems.