• Yusuf Ahmad

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.

• Peiman Salehi

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.

• Clement Amponsah

Development agendas framed around “resilience” promise empowerment but often reproduce colonial power dynamics in the guise of climate adaptation.

• Harlem Lamine

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.

• Jwan Zreiq

From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.

• William Shoki

The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?

• Mouttasem Albarodi

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?

• Jing Jing Liu
• Emeka Ugwu
• Sa’eed Husaini

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.

• Joy Wang

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

• Lee Nxumalo

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.

• Maher Mezahi

On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?

• Makena Maganjo

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

• Fatoumata Bah

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.

• Mebratu Kelecha

Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.

• Alexandra Gerasimcikova
• Paul Okumu

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.

• Milo Gough

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.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

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.

• Peiman Salehi

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.

• Naila Aroni

Recent celebrity investments in the continent raises the question: Who is it really for?

• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Western donors are cutting budgets, but the aid model they built—rooted in control, dependency, and depoliticization—still shapes Africa’s development.