How much does a Nigerian intellectual cost?
The country that once produced some of Africa’s fiercest moral voices now struggles to sustain independent thought.
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An ambivalent sense of belonging
Janet McIntosh's fascinating book, Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans, forces an interrogation of the past.
Homeless in the city
The periodic evictions of poor families in Nairobi follows in a long tradition in Kenya, dating to colonialism, to keep the city as a space for the elite.
Face-me-I-face-you
The irony of preaching social distancing to those living in close urban dwellings in Lagos exposes the crass nature of class disparities in Nigeria.
A’na Afriki
The connections and shared lineage between Africa and the countries of the Arabian peninsula.
Buddha in Africa
A new documentary about China's colonization of Malawi reveals how one colonial hand opens the door for another.
Race, caste and Kamala
Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.
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Seeking refuge in Sahelian cinema
Director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun utilizes the fluid space of the Sahel to demonstrate the power of cinema as a limitless art.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
Refugee debates have an African history problem
Despite increased global debate over refugee issues, few discuss these issues in terms of refugee histories, especially histories of Africans seeking refuge in and beyond the continent.
The music industry and vaccine apartheid
Music’s ingratiating moral mask has withered, revealing a disfigured face whose true ethical philosophy is, as Lauryn Hill once noted, “paper thin.”
Achille Mbembe’s decolonization
Mbembe’s work serves as a guide to understand our fragmented global present and the urgent matter of charting ways out of our shared dark night.
The trouble with ‘showing the real Africa’
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.
Coming to America?
In the shadow of the US election, this Tuesday on AIAC Talk, we talk African immigration to the United States with Abraham Zere and Aya Saed.
Bling politricks
On AIAC Talk: Hip hop's political legacies. Live on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
A Port of Spain Christmas
On Christmas Day, AIAC Radio heads to Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate a unique Black Atlantic tradition.
Lost in Frustration
Can we teach about Latin America not exploiting its shock-value or as a ready-to-consume entity?