On our annual publishing break, Gaza’s genocide continues to unfold in real time yet slips from public grasp. This is not just a crisis of politics, but of how reality is mediated—and why we must build spaces where meaning can still take root.
Delayed, underfunded, and undermined, this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations has exposed not just neglect but active sabotage from CAF and national federations.
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds.
Once a symbol of anti-imperial unity, BRICS now risks becoming the very thing Bandung opposed: a club of powerful states reproducing global inequality in a new key.
Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.
The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.
From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.
The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.
From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.
On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?
A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.
Africa's biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.
Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.
With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US—via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.
Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare—one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name.