• Sean Henry Jacobs

On the latest episode of AIAC TV, we discuss the COVID 19 vaccine with Achal Prabhala and Indira Govender. Watch now on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.

• Benjamin Talton

At another historical inflection point, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized white Americans’ delusions as the property of the West more broadly.

• Camilla Houeland

The weakening of Nigeria’s oil trade unions has a devastating impact on workers. Now workers are paid by Shell and others to sabotage union strikes and actions.

• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

The United States must make the choice to side with the majority of Ugandans who would like to see democracy take root in Uganda.

• Stella Nyanzi

Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.

• Nanna Schneidermann

How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda's future? And what are the consequences?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.

• Sisonke Msimang

An excerpt of an essay, titled “Nongoloza’s Ghost,” in Lapham’s Quarterly. It's published in partnership with Africa Is a Country.

• Seán Muller

As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who's profiting.

• Nicholas Mwangi
• Irene Asuwa

Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.

• Raymond van Diemel

What was behind the assassinations in the 1980s of two key anti-apartheid figures: Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and senior ANC official, Dulcie September?

• Kalundi Serumanga

The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?

• Akua O. Britwum
• Amina Mama

How Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere’s approaches to gender politics, help reshape feminist visions for reclaiming a developmental state.

• Christoph Kalter

White settler returnees to Portugal in 1975, and the history of decolonization, can help us understand the complicated category of refugee.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

What will it take for the decades-old regime of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to address the root cause of the country’s senseless conflict?

• Layla Riahi
• Hamza Hamouchene

A new report from the Transnational Institute suggests free trade does nothing but drain Tunisia’s wealth.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This week on AIAC Talk: How Ethiopia helps us make sense of the nature of the African state. Tune in Tuesday at 19:00 SAST, 17:00 GMT, and 12:00 EST on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter.

• Dastan Kweka

One corporation's tax tussle with Tanzania holds many lessons for African countries that continue to struggle with the inequitable share of proceeds from their extractive sectors.

• Ngala Chome

With Kenya in the grip of a global pandemic and grappling with an ailing economy, is constitutional reform really a priority?

• Sam Broadway

Cooperatives provide a convenient lens through which to examine the political present and future of Uganda, if not the greater region.