• 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.

• William Shoki

On this week's AIAC podcast: After an upswing before the pandemic, the global climate justice movement currently looks stuck. What kind of climate politics can appeal to the majority of people?

• Mustapha Saha

Activist Blondin Diop and artist Samb are exemplars of Senegal’s post-independence promise and crisis, marked by the global uprisings of May 1968. Mustapha Saha was a friend to both of them.

• Chérif Keïta

There is a remarkable connection between Mali and South Africa, dating back to the liberation struggle, and actively encouraged by the author’s work.

• Nii Kotei Nikoi

Lawyerfication discourse in Ghana ignores the operation of power on the ground and conflates legality with justice.