• Makena Maganjo

Kenya is one of Israel’s closest allies in Africa. But the Ruto-led government isn’t alone in silencing pro-Palestinian speech.

• Sharon Tshipa

Environmental protection is deeply-held practice in African spirituality. What happens when it is re-shaped by Christianity and capitalism?

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Young people have become an influential demographic in Nigerian politics. But are they a coherent political constituency?

• Brock Hicks

Kenyan president William Ruto has reinvented himself as Africa's climate champion. But, his policy contradictions reveal that this is just his latest hustle

• Maher Mezahi

Africa Is a Country is proud to introduce a new podcast focused on the politics and cultural relevance of football on the African continent.

• Tamás Gerőcs

What’s fueling the military takeovers sweeping across West and Central Africa?

• Faisal Ali
• Jethro Norman

Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?

• Solen Feyissa

While Ethiopia’s leaders chase shiny new projects that are grand monuments to themselves and modernity, they ignore the country’s rich, natural heritage.

• Dauti Kahura

In Kenya, elected office does not represent a duty to represent ordinary citizens, but an opportunity for personal enrichment.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.

• Marcel Paret

South Africans agree that redistribution and economic security are urgent. But will they arrive via a deepening of democracy and public accountability, or a return to authoritarianism?

• William Shoki

On the South African Department of Tourism's pending sponsorship deal with Premier League football club, Tottenham Hotspur.

• Helen Epstein

Uganda’s rulers don’t get that clobbering words is impossible. The pen will escape every hammer, and cross borders to haunt oppressors, even if the authors are no longer around.

• Mongi Henda

Fear of the future, longing for the past: the new story in South African politics.

• Wandia Njoya

Which theology we will use to make sense of the relationship between church and state in Kenya?

• Ra’eesa Pather
• Michael Marchant

South Africa’s ruling party’s devotion to its policy of cadre deployment is an indication that it values its own power more than the public interest.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Nigeria did not qualify for Qatar 2022. The troubles in the country's football administration reflect the crises in the nation’s political culture.

• Wangui Kimari

The lesson from political economist Rok Ajulu’s academic work and activism: it’s not enough to change the “tenants,” but fight to change both the “state” and all of its houses.

• Michelle Engeler
• Carole Ammann

The wives of (former) heads of state form an important part of the political elite in Guinea, considerably shaping the country’s sociopolitical and economic past and present.

• William Shoki

The world has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. But the roots of today’s disorder, stretch further back than we think. This week on the AIAC Podcast, we discuss.