Burkina Faso Is on The Boil
And can someone tell the BBC: No, Blaise Compaore is not a "peacemaker."
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The Fate of la Francophonie
Do we still need an organization of France's former colonies? Whose interests does it actually serve?
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.”
What can Africans learn from the Greek crisis?
I asked African and Africanist thinkers and commentators what they make of Syriza's approach to dealing with creditors and what wider connections they can draw to our conditions.
Cutting colonists’ heads
We talk to Togolese rapper Elom 20ce who aims to bring his politics to the masses.
Discours de Ouaga
Should Africans care for French President Emmanuel Macron's "Africa Speech" in Ouagadougou?
Ghana’s President and what the West wants to hear
Many social media users have construed Akufo-Addo’s words in the President of France's presence, as somehow radical.
Revolutionary intellectuals
History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.
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.
Bring Back Our History
Everyone but the Chibok girls — subjects of #BringBackOurGirls — and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.
‘Their champagne party will end’
In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.
The power of telling our own stories
When we as Africans tell our own stories, we re-write the stories in the history books that our children are still taught in schools.
On safari
We are not just marking the end of 2019, but also the end of a momentous, if frustrating decade for building a more humane, caring future for Africans.
Viva Amilcar Cabral
Paris-based rap group MC Malcriado — captures Cabral's appeal to the new generation.
Art and the politicization of African bodies
The painter Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi speaks to Drew Thompson about the evolution of her practice and how she locates herself in contemporary African art.
Fighting the pandemic in the global South
On the other side of the pandemic, we must strengthen and build strong working-class movements to challenge imperialism and neocolonialism.
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.
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.