• Phethani Madzivhandila

What is the South African political leader Robert Sobukwe’s legacy today?

• Kiasha Naidoo

If we stop using terms to describe race at all, we risk undermining our struggle to eliminate racism.

• William Shoki

How a new film about the murder of anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September helps to unearth South Africa’s unresolved past. Stream it live on YouTube. Also subscribe to Patreon.

• Liz Timbs

Is the future of podcasting a show featuring isiZulu retellings of 19th-century African life combined with an original soundscape composed with a revolutionary ethos?

• Florian Bobin

The Senegalese state’s quest to crush the opposition has caused massive unrest throughout the country. A regime that blows on the embers fans the flames.

• Bright Gyamfi

Kwame Nkrumah’s ideas about pan-Africanism and African liberation inspired many young scholars to explore global linkages around race and power, to uncover historical connections and forge new ones.

• Sara Hanaburgh

Imagine if African films could enjoy shooting and editing on the continent, uninhibited by national and international politics.

• Sara Hanaburgh

The performative documentary 'Sun of the Soil' restores the historical record of the 'great king' of Mali, Mansa Musa.

• Timwa Lipenga

A new book about Rose Chibambo lifts the veil of post-colonial romanticism from her story. We get a moving, nuanced portrait in her own words.

• Ricci Shryock

Amilcar Cabral is a household name. But what happened to the young women like Joana Gomes who helped lead Guinea Bissau’s independence struggle?

• 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.

• Mohamed Duale
• Jabril Abdullahi

Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?

• Youlendree Appasamy

South Africa's history of indentured labor leaves behind a legacy of violence against women among the country's South Asian population.

• William Shoki

This week’s AIAC Talk is devoted to the life, thought, and legacy of Amílcar Cabral. Watch on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter, and subscribe to our Patreon for the archive.

• Raymond van Diemel

What was behind the assassinations in the 1980s of two key anti-apartheid figures: Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, and senior ANC official, Dulcie September?

• Akua O. Britwum
• Amina Mama

How Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere’s approaches to gender politics, help reshape feminist visions for reclaiming a developmental state.

• Shimelis Mulugeta Kene
• Solen Feyissa

The current political conflict, now a civil war, in Ethiopia partly has its roots in disagreement among elites on how to narrativize Ethiopian history.

• Madina Thiam

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, a number of West African Muslims migrated east, settling in Sudan and Mecca, to seek refuge from European colonization.

• Frederick Cooper

What might Black Lives Matter learn from Africanist scholars who have studied inequality outside the US, especially in Africa?

• April Zhu

To those who did not know Emma Gama Pinto, she was just “the wife of Pio Gama Pinto,” the Kenyan anticolonial fighter, but to those who knew her, she was fearless in her own right.