• Anna S. Reumert

A conversation with members of Sudan’s resistance committees and Magdi elGizouli.

• Nkanyiso Ngqulunga

In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.

• Israel Campos

Faced with many crises, including unemployment and a rising cost of living, Angolans are turning to memes to express their political discontent.

• Pedro Monaville

Pedro Monaville selects key texts that helped shape a new book on Congolese student-driven left nationalism in the aftermath of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination.

• Israel Campos

Is a Facebook-led social media movement enough to change a country? The case of Angola.

• Wamuwi Mbao

While there is much to mourn about the passing of legendary American singer and actor Harry Belafonte, we should hold a place for his bold statement-album against apartheid South Africa.

• Omole Ibukun

The events of May Day 1998 in Nigeria and lessons from Ola Oni on fighting for democracy in multi-ethnic societies.

• Amuna Wagner

In a country as diverse and divided as Sudan, who gets to define women’s rights and struggles?

• Maya Bhardwaj

Queer Indians are largely invisible in South Africa's LGBT discourse. But representation is not enough, we need political transformation and multi-racial class solidarity.

• Niall Reddy

To rebuild, the South African left must realize that there are no shortcuts to power.

• Andile Zulu

Anxious and isolated, living in poverty or financial precarity, we sink into ourselves and adopt self-destructive coping mechanisms.

• Kathryn Mathers

In a US confronting its own anti-black racism, sentimental imaginings of Africa do little but uphold the white savior industrial complex.

• Shaeera Kalla

The impact of the Marikana massacre on South Africa’s student movement for free education, and an end to outsourcing, has been overlooked.

• René Rojas

While Chileans have defeated the post-authoritarian neoliberal regime, they face major obstacles on the road to a post-neoliberal social democracy.

• Noor Nieftagodien

Before the Soweto Uprising in 1976, students and workers organized one of the largest strike actions in South Africa’s history.

• Radical Books Collective

The Radical Books Collective teams up with Africa Is a Country to bring you progressive conversations about books, literature, and publishing on this platform.

• William Shoki

Politics is about effectiveness, and casting youth as a political subject (rather than simply a demographic), is a bad way to do politics.

• ICAADS Organizing Committee

The Sixth International Congress of African and African Diaspora Studies in Accra in August 2023 foregrounds the struggle against African Studies as a form of knowledge production located, for the most part, outside Africa.

• Axolile Notywala

Cape Town-based activist Axolile Notywala wants to bring people from different backgrounds together to build a movement on what it means to be free in South Africa.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Magaisa, who died this month, set agendas, and demanded the highest standards from the political and intellectual classes in Zimbabwe.