
The way we tell stories
Raoul Peck's 'Exterminate All the Brutes' missed the opportunity to engage with the history of colonialism in a way that empowers viewers to imagine a future in which whiteness is not the locus of power and authority.
Raoul Peck's 'Exterminate All the Brutes' missed the opportunity to engage with the history of colonialism in a way that empowers viewers to imagine a future in which whiteness is not the locus of power and authority.
تكمن فرادة حالة العدمية في أفريقيا كتاريخ وحضارة وشعوب في ارتباطها المتشعب بواقع دموي عنيف من جهة وصيرورة رؤى طوباوية من جهة أخرى، كما يعبر عنه كل من رواية "ذوي الجمال لم يولدوا بعد" للكاتب الغاني ايي كواي أرما وفيلم "آخر أيام المدينة" للمخرج المصري تامر سعيد.
How racialized intellectual outputs placed in just the right circumstances can do the most damage.
Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph was a prominent left nationalist in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. Then he was forgotten. How do we commemorate him?
Anyone who cares about civil society, free speech, and human rights should find the state’s digital silencing of its citizens deeply troubling.
Mexican American director John Gutierrez new film, set in Cape Town, South Africa, touches on colonialism, displacement, and man’s complicated relationship with nature.
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.
An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.
There can no longer be false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes, and other pilfered materials, in museums outside of Africa.
A Black South African academic in the United States on breaking the silence on Israeli apartheid in US classrooms and on campuses.
A film about young Rwandan-Canadian creates more questions than it answers, particularly about identification, belonging, and memory.
Episode #39 of AIAC Talk is about exile: a new film on a Libyan dissident and a new exhibition on the black experience. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.
Grégory Pierrot’s searing analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture. He also offers a way out of this.
Western tech companies in Africa often claim to be "social entrepreneurs." But do their models reduce or contribute to inequality?
South African and Palestinian poets on the shared experiences of Apartheid and resistance. This week on AIAC Talk. Watch it Tuesday on Youtube.
An encounter on a cross continental flight with white South African men and their ways, by Robina Marks, a black woman and South Africa’s ambassador in Benin.
Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.
How the international soundtrack to Black Lives Matter critiques the present by reworking the past.
To consider Bob Marley today demands we look back across distance to the place and age that brought him to us.
This week on AIAC Talk, we reflect on Bob Marley, the “last rock star” and the first artist of world music on the anniversary of his death. Watch it Tuesday on Youtube.