You Want Another Rap
You can’t separate Drake from Toronto or Heems from Queens. Young Cardomom and HAB rap like they are from Kampala, Uganda. Because they are.
Search Result(s) for: “migration”
A hug that listens
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.
The empire strikes Iran
The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern — one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.
It’s about more than Mexico
How about giving US presidential aspirant, Donald Trump, some reading material on what the United States has brought to Latin America.
Between fandom and dissent
Eritrea’s recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the country’s political realities.
The African refugee equilibrium
Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.
The cultural resilience of a creole city
On this month’s AIAC Radio we head to Cape Town to understand how this creole city's musical culture resisted containment throughout history. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.
You can’t kick politics out of football
Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world’s most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
The Nigerian dream is to leave Nigeria
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.
The Assassins of Memory
The South African question is far too important to accommodate an explanation that is simplistic and childish.
Kwame Nkrumah and Israel
Israel projected itself as a plucky postcolonial nation. Many African nations and leaders bought into it. Israel's occupation of the Sinai in 1967 changed that.
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.”
The border between Africa and Spain
The film Adú justly calls attention to Europe’s closed borders, but neglects to examine why people are migrating from Africa.
The narrative of African women
An exhibit attempts to reframe popular perceptions and the image of African women in the United States.
IRL: In Real Life
For the first time ever, Sean and Will broadcast live in person together, from Cape Town, South Africa.
A just recovery from COVID-19
COVID-19 exposed and exacerbated inequality and insecurity in North Africa's food systems. But the roots of the current crisis can be found in the legacy of colonialism and new forms of imperialism.
The exilic geographies of the South
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.
On Safari
Every year, around this time, we take a month long break from publishing. We need it.
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?