South Africa needs power, not apologies
In both the rebuke and lionization of F.W. De Klerk, who recently died, there is an attempt to squeeze power into the zone of emotional sentiment.
Politics
Gangsters as people’s champions
In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.
Kenya is Europe’s dumpsite
On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.
You came here on a fucking boat
Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?
Policing the colony
We have to become more open to the possibility that what our society needs is not better policing, but less. And ultimately no policing at all.
The war in Ethiopia
Will Ethiopia’s civil war blow up its dream of a single state, and in the process, blow up Western notions of statebuilding?
Haiti’s fire this time
On this week's AIAC Talk: Haiti is not down on its luck, it is deliberately under-developed by Western powers.
Sudanese women on the front lines of the resistance
Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: Their human rights are at stake.
Criminal justice for the rising middle class
A new book on policing in South Africa wants to go beyond the usual call for reform. But adapting literature tuned for reform to the task of abolition is a difficult needle to thread.
Power to the People
This week's episode of AIAC Talk is a replay of the launch of the latest issue of Amandla! magazine, a South African publication advancing radical left perspectives for change.
Qu’est-il advenu des accaparements de terres en Afrique?
Plus d'une décennie après la vague mondiale d'acquisitions de terres à grande échelle, elles ont toujours des conséquences néfastes pour ceux qui dépendent de la terre comme fondement de leur vie.
The second Scramble for Africa
How the International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress continues be a farce, and perpetuates a fake conservation in Africa: basically the interests are just commerce.
The Lord’s Chief Justice
Mogoeng Mogoeng, South Africa’s chief justice from 2011 to 2021, is midwifing the conservative turn in South Africa’s public life. From retirement, he may also eye public office.
The lives of refugees
Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.
Organize or starve!
Instead of voting for the bankrupt ANC or DA, South Africans could do better with social movement candidates in upcoming local elections.
Sankara lives!
This week on AIAC Talk we discuss the start of Thomas Sankara's assassination trial, which confirms that for many Burkinabes, his spirit very much lives on.
Reimagining local government in South Africa
If re-municipalization — returning a privatized service to local public control — is to work in South Africa, we need other forms of social contracting between municipalities and citizens.
Capitalism Mtaani at the Dandora dumpsite
In the third video for our Nairobi edition of Capitalism in My City, Gacheke Gachihi visits a site of environmental injustice.
The United States is not a country
The US federal system is a patchwork of states and territories, municipal and local jurisdictions, each with its own laws and regulations. This complex map provides ample opportunities for shell games of “hide the money.”
Organized irresponsibility
On this week's AIAC Talk, a discussion with historian Adam Tooze on the history and future of the COVID-19 crisis.