Vaccine apartheid
Just ten nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind.
COVID-19
The death of cities
Cities will continue to exist and grow despite the coronavirus crisis because of the distinctly human need for social interaction, physical contact, and collaboration.
The business of Black death
The global public health industry is complicit in the reproduction of “the African tragedy.”
The missing 27 billion
Governments need funds for stimulus packages and aid to address COVID-19. But corporate tax avoidance and tax breaks for aid in African countries is undermining emergency responses.
Israel’s Africa strategy
AIAC Talk investigates how Israel is courting the continent in a bid for international legitimacy. Watch on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter.
The politics of vaccines
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.
The problem with generalizations
Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.
COVID-19 and cultural rites
In a Kenya coping with COVID-19 restrictions, circumcision season presents an impossible choice between tradition and civil obedience.
Preparing for the long struggle ahead
COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet.
When Americans took a global health crisis seriously
Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.
Not waiting for a savior
The African response to the coronavirus pandemic displays innovation and ingenuity.
Lessons from Africa’s past to cope with COVID-19
How managing COVID-19 and other crises necessitates Africa’s structural transformation, and what we can learn from the early post-independence development projects.
Johannesburg cannot police its future
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarized urban policing and how we imagine the post-COVID city.
How to curate a pandemic
Three prominent curators on how they are (re-)situating their respective curatorial practices in relation to the political moment.
Eritrea’s deteriorating state
The Eritrean government continues to force students into military service in the middle of a pandemic. Things are about to get even worse.
What Chinese people eat
News reports claiming that “wet markets” in Asia are the source of the coronavirus obscure the fact that the consumption of wild animals is common in the West.
Structural adjustment comes home
Americans could learn a thing or two from Africans’ history of resisting structural adjustment policies.
Missing datasets
African societies are failing to systematically capture the true impact of COVID-19.
No one is coming to save us
The government of Zimbabwe has decided it does not care whether Zimbabweans live or die.