• William Shoki

This month, Africa's largest democracy and economy goes to the polls. On the AIAC podcast, we discuss Nigeria's upcoming elections.

• Mongi Henda

Fear of the future, longing for the past: the new story in South African politics.

• Ousseina D. Alidou

Hausa poetics of compassion and resistance in northern Nigeria in the age of pandemics and neoliberal democracy.

• Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

Documenting an urban housing crisis and how tens of thousands of informal workers and unemployed people struggle to reshape Johannesburg.

• Wandia Njoya

Which theology we will use to make sense of the relationship between church and state in Kenya?

• William Shoki

For his third term, Lula faces the ghosts of Bolsonarismo, contradictions in his own ruling coalition, and tough global conditions. On our podcast this week.

• Phethani Madzivhandila

Amilcar Cabral’s influence stretched far beyond the Portuguese colonies, profoundly influencing the political struggle in South Africa, past and present.

• Ricci Shryock

On the 50th anniversary of his murder, those who fought alongside Amilcar Cabral give a painful reminder of what could have been had he lived to see Guinea Bissau’s independence.

• Festival Godwin Boateng
• Jacqueline M. Klopp

It’s tempting but unsatisfactory to blame poverty and weak regulation for the dumping of used vehicles in Africa.

• Ouafa Haddioui

It may seem obvious that a real transition to renewable energies is urgent, but not all transitions are the same or fair.

• Abdulkader Tayob

We need to rethink how people seek sustenance and wealth, but not divorced from their moral values, convictions, and expectations.

• William Shoki

Global South countries are leveraging competition between China, Russia, and the US to address multifaceted crises. Is it enough? Tune in to our discussion on the AIAC Podcast.

• Gordon Crawford
• Maurice Beseng
• Nancy Annan

The longue duree of the conflict in the Southern Cameroons, the rise of the current Ambazonian movement, as well as the dismal prospects for conflict resolution.

• William Shoki

Peru’s leftist president, Pedro Castillo, was impeached and arrested last month, triggering nation-wide protests. This week on the AIAC podcast we discuss what comes next for the divided nation.

• Mathijs Cazemier

For French President, Emmanuel Macron, recruiting various African intellectuals turned out to be a key asset in trying to shift the Françafrique narrative, while simultaneously protecting French interests on the continent.

• Saudi Garcia

Anti-blackness is on the rise in Ayiti. But Haitians and Dominicans are resisting, in ways big and small.

• Guido Melo

In the wake of the insurrection in Brazil, an Afrobrazilian reflects personally on the entanglement of race and class in the country, and on what needs to be done to unravel it.

• Alessandro De Cola

What foot does Italy’s neo-Fascist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, stand on to lecture France on its monetary colonialism in Africa?

• Carlos Lopes

The former executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission on Africa, makes his case as to why Africa should take advice on development politics and knowledge from Asia.

• Rabiat Akande

The legal politics of religious difference in late colonial northern Nigeria still resonate more than 60 years post-independence.