• Maher Mezahi

The African Five-a side podcast continues to explore the stories of five African heads of state and their influence on football. This week, we introduce our striker.

• Brooks Marmon

A new film about American civil rights icon Bayard Rustin overlooks his later conservative turn, evident in his attitudes to anticolonial resistance in Africa.

• Maher Mezahi

This week on the African Five-a-side podcast, we take a look at the kick off of the African qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

• Sharon Tshipa

Environmental protection is deeply-held practice in African spirituality. What happens when it is re-shaped by Christianity and capitalism?

• Ismay Milford

How an experimental periodical led by an individual editor thrived in Nasserist Cairo even though it never joined the canon of revolutionary print.

• Lee Nxumalo

Something’s different about the reaction to South Africa’s victory at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, its fourth title.

• Maher Mezahi

Up next in the African Five-a-side podcast, we name our central defender, and explain how Ghana's first president boycotted the 1966 FIFA World Cup and won two Afcons.

• Ezequiel Tedesco

One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.

• Steven W. Thomas

It would seem that Hollywood has discovered Africa again. But how does all the new American content about Africa’s past compare to a previous generation of African-made movies on the same topic?

• Maher Mezahi

In the latest episode of the African five-a-side podcast, we name our goalkeeper.

• Sebastiao Christopher Kiaku
• Margot Luyckfasseel

The return of Belgian-Congolese multitalent Baloji is nothing short of remarkable, with his latest output offering a fourfold album, an immersive exhibition, and most notably, a captivating magic realistic film.

• Dawson McCall

The successes of elite Kenyan athletes should not distract from the ways ordinary Kenyans are using it to make meaning for themselves.

• Welcome Mandla Lishivha

Telling one's story as a black queer person isn't yet the luxury it is chalked out to be, especially when it remains dangerous to be queer in the world.

• Alex White

A new HBO documentary exposes the harm caused by unqualified aid workers in Uganda, but its attempts to complicate the narrative ultimately fall flat.

• Christine Mungai

One cannot fully appreciate Kenya’s normative Christianity and its particular obsession with public piety without appreciating the legacy of the East African revival.

• Faeeza Ballim

What does the history of South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, tell us about the apartheid and post-apartheid state?

• Ray Bush

Post-Colonialisms Today provides an antidote to Western-centric analysis of Africa in a special issue of 'Africa Development.'

• Maher Mezahi

Africa Is a Country is proud to introduce a new podcast focused on the politics and cultural relevance of football on the African continent.

• Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s directorial debut is not only a love story about two star-crossed individuals, but about the whimsical landscapes of the place where they fall in love.

• Mohammed Jameel Abdulla

The tragedy of settler-colonialism.