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Senegalese writer, Boubacar Boris Diop, on the problematic circuits of teaching African literature first legitimized in Europe in African universities
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Senegalese writer, Boubacar Boris Diop, on the problematic circuits of teaching African literature first legitimized in Europe in African universities

Les études littéraires africaines devraient donner plus d'espace aux nombreux écrivains vivant sur le continent, dans les langues africaines.

Social science and the ghosts of “the nationalities question” in Ethiopia today.

The first episode of the new season of Africa Is a Country Radio, our monthly music show, focuses on the port city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Listen on Worldwide FM and follow us on Mixcloud.

While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.

Slavery existed in the Sahel before the Transatlantic Slave Trade and endured beyond its abolitions. To this day.

Is the future of podcasting a show featuring isiZulu retellings of 19th-century African life combined with an original soundscape composed with a revolutionary ethos?

On telling stories through the evocative and varied moments in which humans live, rather than through the predictable and artificial plots historians devise.

This month on AIAC Radio we talk with Marissa Moorman and Paulo Flores to see how a music culture born in the quintals of Luanda helped birth a nation. Listen on Worldwide FM.

The film "Finding Sally" grapples with Ethiopia's past, but may romanticize its present.

Historically, Liberia ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Then it stopped. What happened, and can it be reversed?

This month on Africa Is a Country Radio we wrap up our seasonal theme of port cities, and make a stop in Dakar, Senegal. Listen on Worldwide FM or Mixcloud.

A Black South African academic in the United States on breaking the silence on Israeli apartheid in US classrooms and on campuses.

On AIAC Talk this week, we are tackling Africa’s long and evolving relationship with Asia. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.

Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph was a prominent left nationalist in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. Then he was forgotten. How do we commemorate him?

Nkrumah’s written works and speeches reveal a selective encounter and appropriation of tools—in this case from Marxist thought—that were translated through Nkrumah’s traveling theory.

Every year, around this time, we take a month long break from publishing. We need it.

Why is South Africa's draft Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill contradicting the constitution and proposing to shield academics and scholars who propagate racist and bigoted ideas?

This week on AIAC Talk: 2021 has been declared a great year for African literature, but what does that actually mean?

If you hadn't noticed, we were on our annual break from just before Christmas 2021 until now. We are back, including with some inspiration.