• Ryan Skinner

The film "Africa Mia” (2019), directed by Richard Minier and Edouard Salier, explores the musical connections between Cuba and Mali.

• William Shoki

On this week's AIAC Talk: Haiti is not down on its luck, it is deliberately under-developed by Western powers.

• William Minter

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.”

• Scott Timcke

What does the expansion of artificial intelligence in warfare look like in West Africa and other US military outposts?

• William Shoki

Scholars Archie Mafeje and Cedric Robinson challenged Eurocentrism. Their ideas are becoming more widely known. They're the focus of AIAC Talk this week.

• Boima Tucker

Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.

• Sakiru Adebayo

In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

• Vik Sohonie

During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?

• Russell Rickford

Americans should recognize that White supremacy does not love White folks.

• Luna Olavarría Gallegos
• Boima Tucker

A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party's agenda.

• André Soares

Angolans have made themselves in and out of Angola, in conversation with the world; they carry with them the deep look of permanent uncertainty. But also take with them the smile of resistance.

• André Soares

Ekwa Msangi, realizadora Tanzaniana-Americana, mostra a história de muitos imigrantes com a experiência de uma família angolana de imigração.

• Frederick Cooper

What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa?

• Jean Allman

Reflections from a former President of the African Studies Association (ASA), the largest African Studies association globally, on the future of the discipline.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On AIAC Talk: Hip hop's political legacies. Live on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Hip hop and the Black political mainstream more broadly, continues to have hope in the promises of American capitalism.

• Aya Saed

The stories of African immigrants to the United States tell vivid tales of unimaginable anti-Blackness through foreign terrains.

• Naledi Mbaba

Beyonce offered me escapism in my childhood. But now I see the contradictions and shortcomings in her claimed radicalness.

• Takondwa Semphere

Beyoncé, 'The Lion King,' 'Coming to America,' and the complicated politics of African representation in Black American cultural production.

• Antawan Byrd
• Sandrine Colard
• Serubiri Moses

Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.