Coup in Burkina
This week, AIAC talks with Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo on what's behind the coup in Burkina Faso.
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The phenomenological real
A book by writer Melissa Thackway and director Jean-Marie Teno highlights an ethical and politically engaged partnership between filmmaker and film critic.
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.
Archiving pan-Africanism
A project - helmed by historians Benjamin Talton and Jean Allman - to archive post-independence African revolutions, including Kwame Nkrumah's personal and professional papers.
The junta belt
What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?
On Safari
On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?
From Cairo to Cornell
The Malcolm X effect of Gambian-British activist Momodou Taal.
Africa’s first children problem
No matter where they are, the children of African heads-of-state live lives comically far-removed from those of the average citizen in their home countries.
Food is power
The World Food Program says COVID-19 will bring about a famine of biblical proportions, so it is a good time to revisit why food has never just been about the simple act of eating. Food is history. Food is identity.
New Films
…France during World War II): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHsjuXuWuy4 “The Rhythm of My Life,” a documentary film about the
Friday Music Bonus Edition
…played ‘Always Shine’ with Lupe Fiasco and Bilal on Letterman this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIXKbUCC-bU Elom 20ce channeling
Africa is a Horse
What is it with the long practice in British racing of adding an African appellation to a race horse's name. Most African countries now have at least one horse name after it.
Weekend Music Break N°32
…music videos you might have missed over the past weeks. Burkina-American Ismael Sankara (remember Mikko’s write-up
Germany’s African “Big Five”
Germany's a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is, has little to do with Africa and more with local electoral politics.
Mali’s Elections: First Thoughts on Round Two
It's worth remembering that the outcome of this election will represent stability more than change.
Weekend Music Break 55
…ode to her mother: http://youtu.be/Kl868uQ8sgA Jacques Vergès, Femi Falana and Thomas Sankara are but a few