Chris Martin’s Brain
Coldplay’s “Paradise” music video is set in South Africa. The video is mostly is an antiquated perception of the country held by many in the West.
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Don’t kill yourself because of suffering
Weekend Music Break, No.104 is just a playlist of ten great songs accompanied by predictably striking visuals from across Africa and its diaspora.
Shell brought me here
A BBC reporter visits the old fields of southeast Nigeria, the site of massive exploitation by Shell Oil — in a helicopter provided by Shell.
The unfinished business between Cameroon and France
France would rather play puppeteer than transparently acknowledge its role in first shaping — and now underhandedly curating — its colonial past.
The “right” of white South Africans to be racist and offensive
Why we should care about the leader of the second largest party in South Africa's defense of the virtues of colonialism and other Weekend Specials.
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.
Who is AFCON for?
From air travel costs and border regimes to television culture and class exclusion, the problem of attendance at AFCON is structural, not because fans lack passion.
Zambians don’t deserve their politicians
Ugandans make for good soldiers-for-hire, Radiohead and aparthied, the state of Left American politics and other Weekend Specials.
The great opus of “Small Bobby”
Ranjith Kally (1925-2017), a legendary photographer, documented South African Indian life in famed magazine Drum.
Happy Father’s Day
The Soweto Uprising, Tupac, Walter Rodney, Jeremy Corbyn, Latin American telenovelas, etcetera, all part of this week's Weekend Special.
Thinking aloud with Stuart Hall
The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.
What’s Left of the South African Left?
This week on AIAC Talk, we’re debating whether the moment is right for South Africa’s left to form a new party. Watch it live on YouTube.
We are not all Senegalese
Senegal's scandal: Thousands of local boys or trafficked from neighboring countries (known as talibés) are forced into begging by religious teachers.
Biafra–nostalgia as critique
How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?
What happens to football dreams when they die
For the Star Boys, a West-African performance collective based in Antwerp, Belgium, the dream of playing professional football in Europe found its revival in theatre.
No education crisis wasted
The "business model" of Bridge International, the organization which claims to solve Africa's education problems, comes under scrutiny.
Renunciation and redemption
The deadly serious games of J M Coetzee's novel about the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, 'Disgrace.'
Suffering and smiling
In death, Fela Kuti is being rehabilitated by Nigeria's government. It may all be a false note.