The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras.
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Born of struggle
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.
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Full circle
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
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Children are the first to die
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.
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An electoral autocracy
In India, popular movements, not elections, will bring transformative change.
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Diomaye’s first weeks
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.
AFCON 2023
Our coverage of the 2023 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d'Ivoire.
Who else sorely misses the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations? Re-live the excitement from the stands in a short video by the AIAC team.
This year’s AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire showed that it’s not just the politics of the football that matters, but the politics of the vibe as well.
Culture
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Beware of false prophets
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
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An unfinished project
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
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A sojourn in Sharjah
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
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Untangling the roots of Empire
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
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Writing while black
The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
Palestine
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Children are the first to die
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.
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A sojourn in Sharjah
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
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Seria a guerra em Gaza um genocídio?
Da Namíbia até a Armênia, e de Ruanda à Bósnia, os perpetradores de assassinato em massa afirmam estar agindo em legítima defesa.
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Is the war on Gaza a genocide?
From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.
Politics
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The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
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Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
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Reaching for life
In Sudan, the focus must remain on supporting the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace, stability, and democratic governance.
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Mosque diplomacy
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
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Between woman and nation
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
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