Alpha Condé, undone
Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?
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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.
Coup in Burkina
This week, AIAC talks with Dr. Lassane Ouedraogo on what's behind the coup in Burkina Faso.
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?
Keeping Afrobeat decolonial in Buenos Aires
One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.