• 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.

• Ilham Rawoot
• Daniel Ribeiro

Total is creating a social and economic disaster in Mozambique, consulting the same playbook it uses in Myanmar and Yemen where it extracts resources and silences communities.

• Lena Grace Anyuolo
• Nicholas Mwangi

The Kenyan Organic Intellectuals Network wants to challenge the vague manner elites there deal with the past and take on the challenges of the present.

• Tore Linné Eriksen

Egyptian women's struggle today stands on the shoulders of many historical role models. One of them is Huda Shaarawi.

• The Fees Must Fall Collective

Oupa Lehulere, revolutionary teacher and mentor, died on November 29. His approach to theoretical study and struggle was the same: there are no shortcuts.

• Claire Raga
• Savo Heleta

In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.

• Peter Lobese
• Khokhoma Motsi
• Ayanda Kota

Instead of voting for the bankrupt ANC or DA, South Africans could do better with social movement candidates in upcoming local elections.

• Ben Radley

The radical politics of the professional middle classes — too often found full of rhetoric, but short on action — are explored in Leo Zeilig’s new novel, The World Turned Upside Down.

• Lee Wengraf

The current run on Africa’s oil resources has strong echoes with the continent’s colonial past. The global movement’s task is to not let corporations get away with it.

• Emily Bridger

Oral histories conducted with women involved in South Africa’s liberation struggle offer us startlingly candid portraits of youth activism.

• Chris Vasantkumar

Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.

• Sushovan Dhar

The latest COVID-19 crisis in India is overshadowing a farmers' revolt over land and agriculture. That revolt holds lessons for Africans.

• Imani Countess
• William Minter

There is a lesson in the struggle for South African freedom: South Africans seeking solidarity understood they were speaking to specific audiences, not to an undifferentiated global community, and they strove to meet people where they were.