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Exploring rootlessness and confusion
The director, Frances Bodomo, originally from Ghana, talks about her film "Boneshaker" and African globalization.
South Africa’s American refugees
Cape Town’s digital nomads chase cheap luxury and scenic backdrops — but behind the matcha lattes and “social impact days” lies a deeper story of economic power, displacement, and global inequality.
De-dollarization from below?
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.
Back on track
A Johannesburg-Cape Town high-speed line could turn apartheid’s corridors of extraction into a green spine of connection, industry, and justice.
On African Asylum Seekers in Israel
Media about African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel highlight their experiences and desires for rights, but erase their agency, portraying them solely as victims of violence and exploitation.
From Mogadishu to Toronto
The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.
Climate, conflict and capitalism fuel xenophobia
We need to understand how climate change impacts the current and future flow of refugees and displaced persons, and ask why the protection needs of climate refugees are not being met.
The Black Mediterranean and the limits of liberal solidarity
The documentary film, 'When Paul came over the sea' (2017) is an important summary of the conditions and motives behind forced displacement of African migrants
We’ve always been migrating
A film about a Sudanese migrant to America explores a general fact of contemporary existence.
The ways in which movement can and cannot heal
An interview with author Emmanuel Iduma on traveling through twenty African cities.
How the Dutch government polices unwanted black bodies
Often championed as a human rights defender, the Netherlands continuously fails miserably in politically protecting and socially including refugees.
Between East Africa and the Gulf
Political encounters between the Arab Gulf and Africa span centuries. Mahmud Traouri's novel 'Maymuna' demonstrates the significant role of a woman’s journey from East Africa to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Making meaning in Johannesburg
Documenting an urban housing crisis and how tens of thousands of informal workers and unemployed people struggle to reshape Johannesburg.
New Ways of Seeing The World
An interview with director Tala Hadid and producer Danny Glover of "A Narrow Frame of Midnight," set amidst political turmoil in Morocco.
Taper salam
For African women passing through Morocco en route to Europe, begging on the streets becomes a way to support themselves, but also reinforces humiliation and shame.
Some refugees more equal than others
Many European governments favor “culturally close[r]” refugees and asylum-seekers: preferably white, educated Christians.
Cut out of society
African women en route to Europe often land up stuck in Morocco, taking on precarious work as hairdressers and beauticians.
Africa’s lost psychiatrists
Many of the continent’s most highly trained mental health professionals migrate outside Africa. The result, sadly, makes global inequalities in access to mental health, worse.