Football and empire
AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.
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Where have the Chapungu gone?
What connects Zimbabwe’s chimurenga spirit, the disappearing bateleur eagle, and the stubborn afterlife of colonial capital?
Look to Cuba
Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.
Karl Marx Was Right
The mainstream is waking to the prescience of the old man's ideas.
To think through and beyond the nation-state
A conversation on books, borders, and belonging with Somali-American writer, Abdul Adan.
Who speaks for Iran?
Between imperial narratives and state propaganda, debates about the war on Iran often erase the diversity of Iranian society and the voices of its marginalized communities.
The new Old Man in Zimbabwe
From the perspective of the past, there is little evidence to invest much hope in the “successful transition” trope still reverberating in the international media about Zimbabwe.
The wanderers from Niger
Nigerien band Anewal eschews explicit politics and sings mostly of harmony and brotherhood.
After the subcontracting state
The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa — and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
The New South Africa’s original ’State Capture’
The elite compromise of the early 1990s emphatically excluded the possibility of a comprehensive redistribution policy.
How to subvert the Hollywood Western
An interview with the South African director and writer of 'Five Fingers for Marseilles,' a Western set in that country, and starring an all black cast.
Johannesburg’s Media World Cup
European media's lopsided attempts to make sense of South Africa ahead of the World Cup, continues.
Black America’s Africa
Black Panther arrives as black America diversifies, but the US becomes more isolationist. It's not beyond many African Americans to reflect nativist tendencies.
It’s only business
How private education companies ruin education in Kenya: Private education companies have sought to cash in on the development game.
The Bang Bang Club
Journalists in South Africa are picking up on how the film, "The Bang Bang Club," treats some of the Bang Bang Club's black colleagues. And other Weekend Specials.
Cape Town’s exceptionalism
Cape Town has always been like other African cities in how it treats its poorer, black, residents. The water crisis just amplifies these divides.
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz's take on Childish Gambino's viral "This Is America."
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?