Sweet beauty
In Senegal, women's bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.
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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.
Understanding the African sports economy
Sports on the continent are being commercialized at a rapid rate. What’s driving it?
Helen Zille’s transphobia
In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing.
Learning from Chile
Chile’s march to a progressive constitution and egalitarian transformation has stalled. What can movements in the Global South learn?
No scrubs
Why are Kenya’s doctor’s on strike?
Nepal’s Gen Z reckoning
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment.
Who cares about African heritage?
While the world debates restitution, Africa’s own heritage institutions are collapsing. The question is no longer who took our past, but who is keeping it alive.
A forgotten relic
Just two weeks on from Les Elephants greatest ever triumph, the Ivorian women’s national team is at its lowest point.
The remarkable revival of Ugandan football
Uganda has never qualified for the World Cup, but at a continental level it is making a comeback. So is its club football.
House of stone
Roy Guthrie was a refrigerator salesman in South Africa before he moved to Zimbabwe and established its largest sculpture park.
Between woman and nation
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
Les femmes dans la nation sénégalaise
Le gouvernement du plus jeune président de l'histoire du Sénégal semble déjà incarner une vision rétrograde des femmes.
Who is greening Nairobi?
For some years now, the people of Eastlands in Nairobi have been remaking the city in their own image of green development.
Paying for citizenship
What began as a revenue lifeline for small island states has become a global market where the wealthy buy mobility and sovereignty itself becomes a commodity.
The right to be different
Could Côte d’Ivoire one day become a safe haven for LGBTQI+ communities in West Africa?
How we normalize racialism
In the first part of a two-part post, the author challenges conventional progressive approaches to “race,” finding them to be untenable with non-racialism.
The hallucinatory bunker of the white right
The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives.
Hospitali za mabepari
Ubinafsishaji wa huduma ya afya nchini Kenya.
What Africa and Asia can teach each other
Once African and Asian leaders looked towards each other for guidance. What possibilities can a renewed cross-continental solidarity offer?