The beautiful game’s ugly secret
The #MeToo movement exposed abuses across industries, yet men’s football remains resistant to accountability, protecting predators and sidelining survivors.
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Thinking aloud with Stuart Hall
The re-emergence of racialized modes of thinking, racism and discrimination across the West, makes reading and re-reading Stuart Hall urgent.
Between Harlem and home
African postcolonial cinema serves as a mirror, revealing the limits of escape — whether through migration or personal defiance — and exposing the tensions between dreams and reality.
Decolonizing philosophy
We must make a genuine attempt to Africanize the curriculum at the continent's universities.
The winner takes all
Paul Kagame has won with more than 90 percent of the vote in 3 successive presidential elections in Rwanda.
Football and empire
AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat
As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.
Reading List: Adam Hanieh
Materially speaking, oil is simply a sticky, black goo. It doesn’t have any innate power separate from the kind of society we live in — capitalism.
African leaders’ tax returns
The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the mechanics of how African leaders hide their incomes.
Colouring in the All Blacks
Why would a group of black, mostly coloured, South African rugby supporters openly root for New Zealand teams over their own.
Does China have the power to change governments in Africa?
That China influences 'regime change' in Africa became popular after the military coup in Zimbabwe.
The ghosts of Adwa
The Ethiopia inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism in 1896 was a colonizing state itself.
No more caricatures
Engaging seriously with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life could help us understand how South Africa got where it is and where it’s going.
Set the world on fire
How black women shaped black nationalist and internationalist movements in the twentieth century United States.
What’s behind Tunisia’s growing military?
In post-uprising Tunisia, the western backed military is hampering the country's transition to democracy.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
When Cameroon’s players convinced themselves they could not win
The reason why African teams struggle in the World Cup has everything to do with colonialism.
Soul Brother Krishna
Ishmael Reed explores the future of race in America in new work, focusing in on black-South Asian solidarities.