• Christopher J. Lee

Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.

• Ebony Bailey

Reflecting on the 2022 edition of the African Cup of nations, and the successes of small countries.

• Ryan Skinner

The film "Africa Mia” (2019), directed by Richard Minier and Edouard Salier, explores the musical connections between Cuba and Mali.

• Hugo ka Canham

What if our starting place is to claim that Africa has always been queer?, writes Johannesburg-based scholar Hugo kaCanham.

• Daniel Tödt

German historian Daniel Tödt wrote a history of the Congolese évolués. In this interview, he talks about the historiographical interventions of his book and the role of Patrice Lumumba in the history of évolués.

• Steven W. Thomas

The women filmmakers in the Ethiopian diaspora who have taken the risk of dedicating their lives to documenting their homeland.

• Stephen Mukiibi
• Łukasz Stanek
• Oleksandr Anisimov

The Ugandan architect, Stephen Mukiibi, reflects on his studies in Soviet Ukraine and the lessons he learned on equality, environment, race, and friendship.

• Derek R. Peterson

A new book revisits the career of Uganda’s first elected prime minister, Benedicto Kiwanuka, his followers, and political ideas.

• Paul Veart

What if the social media conditions of 2021 existed in 1981? A group of New Zealand writers tweeted the damned 1981 Springbok rugby tour as if it was happening now.

• Eric Otieno

53 years after it was first made in 1968, the Ghanaian filmmaker King Ampaw’s short film ‘Black Is Black’ celebrates its inconspicuous premiere.

• Tom Menger

Gurnah’s Nobel Prize invites us to ponder Germany’s colonial past between the Scramble for Africa and the First World War in what is now Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

• Wendell Hassan Marsh

Islamic scholarship in Africa and the meaning and end of decolonization in the work of religious studies scholar, Ousmane Kane.

• William Shoki

On this episode of AIAC Talk, Will Shoki and Sean Jacobs discuss the history and politics of the African Cup of Nations football tournament.

• Molemo Moiloa

Two books, by art historian Bénédicte Savoy and journalist Barnaby Phillips respectively, detail how we got to this point in the restitution of African heritage.

• Anthony Johnson

The film, 'We are Zama Zama,' about illegal miners in South Africa, is a social commentary on the failures of post-colonial liberal democracies in Southern Africa.

• Liam Brickhill

The impressive debut album of the Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O marks the arrival of a unique genius in post post-apartheid South African jazz.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio is back with a new season. Each show will be inspired by the work of a different African author. First up, we explore the Ethiopian Tizita with Mukoma Wa Ngugi.

• Toni Kamau

How the film, 'I am Samuel' about a gay Kenyan couple was banned by the Kenya Film Classification Board.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk: 2021 has been declared a great year for African literature, but what does that actually mean?

• Mathare Social Justice Centre

In the last video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, we meet the Organic Intellectuals Network.