Two trips to Juba
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.
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Anti-black excellence
In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about race.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Pan-African aspirations by neoliberal means
As the African Union embarks on its most ambitious project — creating the largest free-trade area in the world — we have some questions.
We are all Haitians
In memory of J. Michael Dash, the Caribbean thinker and literature scholar.
How not to change a curriculum
One of South Africa's leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.
The culture wars are a distraction
When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit.
How to think about colonialism
Contemporary approaches to the legacy of colonialism tend to narrowly emphasize political agency as the solution to Africa’s problems. But agency is configured through historically particular relations of which we are not sole authors.
African digital culture in context
How might a longer view of African art-making affect our understanding of what counts as art, text, and authorship?
The false equivalence of the colonized and colonizer
Choosing to focus on denouncing Palestinian violence is akin to asking them to passively accept their fate — to die quietly and not resist.
S is for Samora Machel
We asked about a dozen Africa Is a Country contributors what their favorite books of 2012 were. Here are their picks.
Good revolutions talk back
As political discontent rises in Kenya, silencing women’s and queer rights in the pursuit of economic justice risks compromising the movement entirely.
The battle over the frame
As Hollywood recycles pro-war propaganda for Gen Z, Youssef Chahine’s 'Djamila, the Algerian' reminds us that anti-colonial cinema once turned imperial film language against its makers — and still can.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.