The new and improved Africa is a Country is here
After weeks of promising you a new design, we're back with a brand-new and improved blog. This is a big day for us.
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Ali Mazrui and Me
A fateful meeting with Mazrui, the famed Kenyan historian and broadcaster.
Every Man Gotta Decide His Destiny
Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is Bob Marley’s most political recording.
Angry farmworkers on a tractor
Done 'debating' whether “Larney Jou Poes” is free speech? Let's talk about the conditions of farmworkers.
Zambia has a white president
When President Michael Sata died, Western media ignored his political legacy and fixated on acting president Guy Scott’s whiteness treating him like a novelty rather than analyzing Zambia.
Wielding scissors
Asher Gamedze on his new single ‘Wynter Time,' and the struggle of oppressed peoples against dispossession, exploitation and alienation.
Roger Ebert was the business
Roger Ebert revolutionized television film criticism in the United States with his engaging discussions alongside Gene Siskel. He loved African film.
We are angels, victims of everybody
Looking inside ourselves and working on the dark hearts of our colonial crap.
How To Use a Sjambok
This and other lessons from the South African front lines.
Is it a good idea to use blackface to shame racism?
The Dutch filmmaker Sunny Bergman put on blackface to fight the racist caricature Zwarte Piet.
How not to write about Africa: Use “African Spring”
The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It's ahistorical.
Xenophobia and Border Imperialism
To seriously respond to xenophobic violence, start with the deconstruction of border politics and acknowledging the colonial inheritance the border represents between countries.
Are corrupt Africans really ruining FIFA?
Of course football administrators in predominantly white countries that aren't Africa have no interest at all in "looking after" their families.
Remembering Mandela and Other Weekend Specials
Weekend Special is all that stuff we wanted to, but did not get around to writing about or just shared on social media.
The limits of African autonomy
Achille Mbembe on how the Ebola Crisis exposed Africa’s dependency on the West.
The University as a Place to Think
How we harness knowledge to the ethical injunctions we uphold against marginality, pain or suffering, on a global scale.
Living up to its Pan-African dimensions
Filmmakers Newton Aduaka and Haile Gerima and film critic and scholar, Mbye Cham, assess Fespaco 2013.
I’m so happy in Cape Town
In South Africa's second city, poverty as well as other forms of inequality, are the direct consequence of elite and middle class wealth.