Angola’s backyard revolution
This month on AIAC Radio we talk with Marissa Moorman and Paulo Flores to see how a music culture born in the quintals of Luanda helped birth a nation. Listen on Worldwide FM.
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Brave new world
As Western government enforce stricter policing of non-native bodies, who who are the activists who will stop them?
What is whiteness to a cyborg?
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
Biafra in the film archives
What personal and collective memory is evoked when we encounter films from a historical period?
Algeria’s Black Fear
In much Algerian discourse, including by its human rights NGO's, black Africans are pathologized as disease carriers.
The war on smugglers
Nigerian Twitter: “If you want to help Libya slaves/immigrants, don't bring them back home. Help them reach their destination in Europe"
What’s behind Tunisia’s growing military?
In post-uprising Tunisia, the western backed military is hampering the country's transition to democracy.
The new anti-migrant national consensus
Italian politics has taken a sharp turn to the right. Migrants, especially African ones, bear the brunt of their rhetoric. Its ground zero for a new rightwing politics.
I am German when we win
Mezut Ozil called out racism in Germany. So what happened to the conversation about dual heritage, racism and immigration there?
An enduring European tradition
An interview with Berlin-based Sierra Leonean electronic musician Lamin Fofana on Europe's longtime fascination with African culture.
The idea of a borderless world
The capacity to decide who can move, who can settle, where and under what conditions is increasingly becoming the core of political struggles.
Sudan in Berlin
"Berlin isn't Germany. Just like that website you write for — it's really its own country."
Solidarity with Sudan begins at home
A guide on how to support the uprising in Sudan.
Frankenstein’s monster in Khartoum
On Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, known as Hemitti, the man behind the massacres against Sudanese protesters.
“Converting Eviction”
A reflection — by one of the group’s artists — on a Swiss-South African art project exploring eviction and extraction.
Will COVID-19 keep out of Africa?
While COVID-19 hasn't yet hit African cities as hard as those in the global North, it will eventually likely penetrate deep into the countryside where the most vulnerable live and where health facilities are rudimentary.
A nowhere space
In an agreement between the EU and African countries, refugees held at sea in the Mediterranean cannot claim rights to asylum. They are forever in limbo.
The new ‘invisible enemy’
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter.