The everyday lives of African immigrants in South Africa
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.
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The Other Afripolitans
Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.
Migration and Africa’s eternal lockdown
The unprecedented distress of momentarily locked-down lives should prompt Europeans to realize how much their leadership curtails freedom of movement on a permanent basis on the African continent.
Family ties
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting news piece on the growing migration by Portuguese workers to Angola.
In search of Saadia
Who was Saadia, and why has she been forgotten? A search for one woman’s story opens up bigger questions about race, migration, belonging, and the gaps history leaves behind.
The shadow networks that govern migration across Africa
The centrality of land in the new economic and social spaces and relations produced by conflict and displacement.
Blood dripping from his head
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.
A migrant’s tale
On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony — offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.
The Africa-China romance is killing Europe
A Dutch documentary film explores increasing migration and trade links between African countries, their citizens and China.
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 mythical black voter
Black Americans are not a unified voting bloc, and it is time to start paying attention.
Why is Israel in Africa?
A new book explores the rationale of Israel’s efforts to expand its influence on the African continent.
Navigating queer utopia
A new book presents an empirical challenge to the myth of South Africa as the “pink capital” of Africa and contributes to building an archive of queer, African, and religious narratives.
Reading List: Peter James Hudson
The writer, a historian of capitalism, white supremacy, and US imperialism, on four books he has been reading.
Frozen in time
How African literature is taught reveals a depressing lack of knowledge concerning North African writers and their works.
Israel’s Africa strategy
AIAC Talk investigates how Israel is courting the continent in a bid for international legitimacy. Watch on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
Talking about trees
Capturing the absurdity of everyday life in Sudan under, now ousted President, Omar al Bashir.
Is there an alternative in Germany?
As the far right surges and the center crumbles, can Germany’s left offer something different — or will reactionary forces set the agenda?
At the border, on the margins
African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.
A technocratic reformulation of colonialism
The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.