The World Cup Senegal can’t attend
Between the visa bond, the digital surveillance requirements, and the 74 percent rejection rate, the Trump administration has made it nearly impossible for Senegalese fans and journalists to attend the World Cup.
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Living on the land
Small scale farmers in Tunisia are caught between international actors and a domestic policy that protects corporations.
Reimagining non-alignment
In the context of climate apartheid, a new scramble for resources, and debt crises, the Global South must find another way to be human.
Weaving the unthought
The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.
Unearthing Subterranean Knowledge
If the savannas of West Africa are a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
Filling in the gaps in the study of African sports
To celebrate 20 years of research on sports in Africa, the SportsAfrica network will publish a series of monthly articles on Africa Is a Country drawing on their members’ research.
The aesthetics of nostalgia
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.
The Last Rehearsal
A very subjective list of the top ten films of 2013.
Whose Biennale is it anyway?
The theme for this year’s Venice Biennale, the ‘olympics of the art world’ is ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ But beyond representation, what are the barriers to participation?
United by football?
At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.
The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
The sound of identity
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.
Pink socialism
Socialist solidarity in postcolonial Angola and Mozambique rendered queer people invisible. Revisiting this erasure helps us imagine liberation anew.
This is not only Ghana’s loss
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
Coming to America
Filmmakers like Nikyatu Jusu, of Sierra Leonean descent, provide reference points for young African immigrants growing up in the West.
Not only kafala
Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.
More French than Algerian
This week, Kamel Daoud became the first Algerian to receive France’s most prestigious literary honor. Yet, in Algeria, no one seems to care.