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Police violence and the murder of black people in the United States have provoked outrage and protest around the world, including on the continent. But, why is there so little outrage over police violence in African countries?
African intellectuals are calling for a different discussion. Isn’t this the right time to propel changes that have often been postponed?
The misguided rhetoric of Tanzanian President John Magufuli guides the country's response to COVID-19.
France’s history of violence policing left a legacy of law and disorder, targeting dissidents, in its former colonies.
Eko Atlantic in Lagos, like Tatu City in Nairobi, Kenya; Hope City in Accra, Ghana; and Cité le Fleuve in Kinshasa, DRC, point to the rise of private cities. What does it mean for the rest of us?
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
Rather than addressing food scarcity, genetically modified crops may render African farmers and scientists more, not less, reliant on global markets.
Freund was a Marxist historian in method, attentive to political economy and to the material underpinnings of power, while retaining a critical distance to Marxism.
Some churches in South Africa have become embroiled with criminal economies.
New Zealand's Prime Minister is a very nice centrist. People in the rest of the world, including Africans, calling for her to be emulated should be careful what they wish for.
Social science and the ghosts of “the nationalities question” in Ethiopia today.
For the peripheries and proletarians of the world — most of the world — Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.
What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.
At another historical inflection point, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized white Americans’ delusions as the property of the West more broadly.
On the latest episode of AIAC TV, we discuss the COVID 19 vaccine with Achal Prabhala and Indira Govender. Watch now on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
Much of what passes for politics these days is actually just anti-politics: not a function of too much politicization, but a severe lack of it.
A Black South African academic in the United States on breaking the silence on Israeli apartheid in US classrooms and on campuses.
Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?
During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?
South Africa's history of indentured labor leaves behind a legacy of violence against women among the country's South Asian population.