Invitation diplomacy
Onejoon Che's film about North Korea’s relationship to African countries suggests a unique transcontinental relationship that resists easy classification.
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The wife’s tale
First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women's histories.
Essential workers
When a young Ethiopian, Haile Gerima, made a film about the exploitative nature of American college sports and the role of Black athletes in society.
The pitfalls of African consciousness
It took time to digest Beyonce's Black Is King. Conclusion: it fails to deliver us. Instead, it's just another capitalist construction of the world.
We are all Sudanese
A new film explores the perspectives of Sudanese-American artists navigating their relationships and responsibilities to the revolution back home.
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?
Not waiting for a savior
The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.
Kenyan statues must fall
What could or should full decolonization in Kenya look like?
The problem with generalizations
Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.
Murder as order
The Ugandan government quells public unrest with violence. What won't it do in the name of "security"?
The forgotten history of migration to Africa
While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.
The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
The African refugee equilibrium
Africans' lack of knowledge about our own shared refugee experiences continues to fuel hate and discrimination on the continent.
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.
Kenya is Europe’s dumpsite
On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.
The second Scramble for Africa
How the International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress continues be a farce, and perpetuates a fake conservation in Africa: basically the interests are just commerce.
Mo Ibrahim does not have all the answers
The Mo Ibrahim Prize rewards African presidents for promoting democracy. But there's no proof the prize has had any effect or that it is needed.
Coup in Burkina
This week, AIAC talks with Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo on what's behind the coup in Burkina Faso.
From Kampala to Soviet Kyiv — and back
The Ugandan architect, Stephen Mukiibi, reflects on his studies in Soviet Ukraine and the lessons he learned on equality, environment, race, and friendship.
The Russians are here
Russia’s war with Ukraine has inaugurated the new Cold War most feared, and some wanted. Which side are you on?