Self preservation in Ouagadougou
Why the coup leader, General Gilbert Diendéré, is derailing the political transition in Burkina Faso.
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Mahmood Mamdani on Marxist intellectual Samir Amin
Samir Amin's life resembled that of Karl Marx: a man without a homeland, but one whose home was a chosen commitment to a historical project.
Living up to its Pan-African dimensions
Filmmakers Newton Aduaka and Haile Gerima and film critic and scholar, Mbye Cham, assess Fespaco 2013.
Burkina Faso is this year’s Zambia
A footballing minnow has shocked the great names of African football with a series of audacious, spirited displays, making it all the way to the 2013 Afcon final.
A time for farewell, and a return
Africans rarely re-evaluate ourselves, the basis of our knowledge and our traditions on our own terms, argues Sierra Leonean writer Ishmael Beah.
The Greatest Of All Time
We discuss the legacy of Diego Maradona on this week's AIAC Talk. Tune in today at 19:00 SAST, 17:00 GMT, and 12:00 EST on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter.
Underground politics under Senghor
In the 1970s, young left-wing activists fought clandestinely for Senegal’s democratization under Senghor’s brutal regime.
The passing of Jerry John Rawlings
Lessons on radical politics from a 1970s political-cultural icon. Rawlings also dominated and shaped Ghanaian politics through the 1980s and 1990s.
The weaponization of memory in Burundi
Prince Louis Rwagasore, also known as “Burundi’s Lumumba," has been reduced to a political tool by the country's elite, but artists are doing his legacy justice.
The complete revolutionary
This week’s AIAC Talk is devoted to the life, thought, and legacy of Amílcar Cabral. Watch on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter, and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.
Diego Maradona, anti-imperial symbol
For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.
It’s time to end the CFA franc
For France's former colonies in Africa to enjoy true independence, they need to control over their own money and budgets.
The music industry and vaccine apartheid
Music’s ingratiating moral mask has withered, revealing a disfigured face whose true ethical philosophy is, as Lauryn Hill once noted, “paper thin.”
Alpha Condé, undone
Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?
The class contradictions of scholar activism
The radical politics of the professional middle classes—too often found full of rhetoric, but short on action—are explored in Leo Zeilig’s new novel, The World Turned Upside Down.
Musically, Congo is the mothership
The documentary, Rumba Kings, offers a commendable and tireless argument for both an intangible cultural heritage case and a centering of the Congolese way.