• Sophie Toupin

Today's social movements rely on tech collectives to organize safely. But few know the history of other technologies used by earlier liberation movements.

• William Shoki

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.

• Lassane Ouedraogo

Student militancy has revived in Burkinabè public universities over the past decade. Now, a student movement could slowly transform society.

• Amar Jamal

On surviving the Khartoum massacre and trying to make sense of what remains from Sudan’s revolution.

• Henning Melber

South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (1957-2021) was a musical giant. She also launched her own label and advocated for women's rights.

• Kunle Wizeman Ajayi

Adams Oshiomhole was one of the most powerful trade union leaders in Nigeria. His career trajectory represents the wider political subjugation of the national labor movement.

• Mary de Haas

The cruel and lonely COVID-19 death of the South African land and rural women’s activist, Siza Ngubane.

• Myra Ann Houser

The Indian activist ES Reddy led the fight against South African apartheid at the UN. More importantly, his life reflected the best of left internationalism.

• Miriam Jerotich Kilimo

New biographies reveal Wangari Maathai as a reflective scholar and critical thinker.

• Jacques Depelchin

We should honor Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba by carrying on his life's work.

• Jacques Depelchin

Il sied d’honorer le professeur Ernest Wamba dia Wamba en continuant l’œuvre de sa vie.

• Banwo “Proficience” Olagokun

A fan of rapper Naira Marley writes that it will take more than counter-cultural popularity to effect any tangible change in Nigeria.

• Mwanahamisi Singano

On the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) based in Kenya.

• Omolade Adunbi

Lessons for Americans in the age of Black Lives Matter, from the Niger Delta’s long struggle for environmental justice.

• Stephanie J. Urdang

Urdang reflects her long friendship with fellow political exile Jennifer Davis, the anti-apartheid activist and changemaker.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Masauko Chipembere's first solo album is a remarkable achievement and a timely musical reminder of the circular nature of pan-Africanist consciousness.

• Sam Broadway

Is western media’s mostly individualized focus on the Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine helpful to his movement?

• Joeva Rock

Centering African voices in a discussion so often dominated by non-African observers.

• Jessica Horn

One African feminist's view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics.

• Sam Broadway

What social media activism gets wrong about the #SudanUprising: Sometimes it may be appropriate to leave the hashtags alone and say nothing.