Africa Is a Country
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Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts.
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Our first full length documentary film "After Oil" will be premiering at the NY African Film Fest this May 24th at
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
. The film traces the politics of energy in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara.
africasacountry.com/after-oil
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Across Kenyaâs urban centers, young men are being recruited into political militias that offer quick cash, fleeting power, and little chance of escape.
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Kenyaâs goon economy
Across the countryâs urban centers, young men are being recruited into political militias that offer quick cash, fleeting power, and little chance of escape.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/kenyas-goon-economy
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The Popeâs African tour tested whether the papacy can speak to ordinary people without becoming a prop for authoritarian power.
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Pope Leo and the strongmen
The Popeâs African tour tested whether the papacy can speak to ordinary people without becoming a prop for authoritarian power.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/preaching-to-the-powerful
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A debut feature set on the Cape Flats turns a familiar crime premise into a quiet study of fatherhood, masculinity, and survival. But its limited reach reveals the deeper problems facing South African film.
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Weâre excited to share the trailer for our first featured documentary âAfter Oilâ Set to premiere in the US at the New York African Film Fest. Screening May 24th at the Brooklyn Academy of music. More info and tickets at
africasacountry.com/after-oil
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After Oil
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The football gambling industry across Africa preys on the risk factors built into the game. The only viable solution is investing in durable, developmental frameworks at the grassroots level.
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How to fix a match for $280 Burundiâs football league rarely draws headlines making it an easy target for match-fixing networks:âThe people involved come from all over the world, Russians, Belgians, French, Congolese, Ugandansâ For
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How to fix a match for $280
Burundiâs football league rarely draws headlinesâmaking it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/how-to-fix-a-match-for-280
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Carly Goodman
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instead of reading this horrible thing, read
@chelseastieber.bsky.social
's 2019 essay in
@africasacountry.bsky.social
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Akinola Davies Jrâs feature-length debut traces how Nigeriaâs military rule collapsed the boundary between political crisis and intimate life, leaving families to bear the cost of authoritarian power.
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Fifteen years after NATOâs intervention in Libya, economic collapse and foreign subjugation have fueled renewed support for Gaddafi-era stability.
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Burundiâs football league rarely draws headlinesâmaking it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division.
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How to fix a match for $280
Burundiâs football league rarely draws headlinesâmaking it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/how-to-fix-a-match-for-280
7 days ago
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On the latest AIAC podcast, the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
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The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast, the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours
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"The solutions emanating from the Green Revolution fall short of satisfying the benchmark for food sovereignty, as by trapping African nations in cycles of debt and dependence, they exercise coercive control of agriculture on the continent."
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after oil
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A new history of the interwar Latin American left recovers the rich debates over race and self-determination that shaped the region's anti-imperial politicsâand still resonate today.
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Sovereignty beyond the nation
A new history of the interwar Latin American left recovers the rich debates over race and self-determination that shaped the region's anti-imperial politicsâand still resonate today.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/sovereignty-beyond-the-nation
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As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africaâs reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity.
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Fields of dependency
As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africaâs reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/fields-of-dependency/
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Our first full length documentary film "After Oil" will be premiering at the NY African Film Fest this May 24th at
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social
. The film traces the politics of energy in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara.
africasacountry.com/after-oil
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I just published a lil' think piece addressing some aspects of Tanya Zack's book "The Chaos Precinct" đ đ You can read the article here:
africasacountry.com/2026/04/more...
Thanks go to the editors of
@africasacountry.bsky.social
. Photo: Courtesy of Tanya Zack.
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In Johannesburgâs Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
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More commerce than chaos
In Johannesburgâs Jeppe precinct, what looks like disorder is in fact a dense, transnational system of trade, labor, and survival at the heart of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/more-commerce-than-chaos
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Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africaâs youth remain locked out of power and decent work.
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The demographic dividend no one wants to pay
Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africaâs youth remain locked out of power and decent work.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-demographic-dividend-no-one-wants-to-pay
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The language of economic policy is designed to obscure... 'Structural adjustment' suggests repair, improvement, and optimization. 'Widening the tax base' evokes democratic participation... These are the euphemisms that dress violence in the rhetoric of necessity" - Ivan Mayabi
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Texto revelador.
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The language of fiscal consolidation is meant to sound inevitable. But for Kenya's informal workers, the human cost is anything but abstract.
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The debts our parents left us
The language of fiscal consolidation is meant to sound inevitable. But for Kenya's informal workers, the human cost is anything but abstract.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-debts-our-parents-left-us
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A new documentary reveals how Ethiopiaâs manufacturing push redistributes land, labor, and opportunityâdelivering gains for some while displacing others.
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Whose progress?
A new documentary reveals how Ethiopiaâs manufacturing push redistributes land, labor, and opportunityâdelivering gains for some while displacing others.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/whose-progress
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If you missed it last week, we launched a new sports focued newsletter "The Corner Flag" edited by @MezahiMaher. Check it out here
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and subscribe on Africa Is a Country.
africasacountry.com/newsletter
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Football is a battleground for politics, power, and progress. This interview calls for reclaiming football from neoliberal dominance through collective ownership, accountability, and grassroots activism. By David Goldblatt in
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You canât kick politics out of football
Despite commercialization and elite capture, the worldâs most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
https://buff.ly/JagrnCv
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Erin Kane
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"There is a paradox that catches in your throat. A growing freshwater lakeâyou would think thatâs a good thing, a sign of ecological health, and a rebuke to drought. But here, it acts as a destroyer." -
@africasacountry.bsky.social
on Lake Naivasha's expansion to levels not seen since the 1930s.
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The human cost of Kenyaâs expanding lakes
As Kenyaâs Rift Valley lakes expand, swallowing homes, farms, and infrastructure, what appears as a climate anomaly reveals a reckoning with ecological limits, failed planning, and the illusion that w...
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-human-cost-of-kenyas-expanding-lakes
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Paulo Nazareth's latest show in Berlin follows the cunning architecture of power, from Germany to Brazil and across continents and epochs.
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Art has never been innocent
Paulo Nazareth's latest show in Berlin follows the cunning architecture of power, from Germany to Brazil and across continents and epochs.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/art-has-never-been-innocent
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Eritreaâs recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the countryâs political realities.
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Between fandom and dissent
Eritreaâs recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the countryâs political realities.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/between-fandom-and-dissent
20 days ago
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Often, in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities.
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Who gets to be a civilian?
Often in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/who-gets-to-be-a-civilian
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Jason Mosley
22 days ago
There was a great
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collection 'Living with ruins: ruination and future-making in Kenya (and beyond)', including a case focused around Lake Naivasha (all Open Access)
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rje...
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Living with ruins: ruination and future-making in Kenya (and beyond)
Explore the article collection: Living with ruins: ruination and future-making in Kenya (and beyond). Published in Journal of Eastern African Studies.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjea20/collections/living-with-ruins
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Florian G. Kern
24 days ago
đđ
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and I are happy to welcome all the participants arriving for our "International Politics in Africa" workshop this week in Nairobi. Everyone has been working hard to submit full papers for the workshop (see attached list) + keynote by Gilbert Khadiagala!
#africanpolitics
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In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life.
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The making of Arundhati Roy
In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-making-of-arundhati-roy
22 days ago
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OQTF : comment lâadministration française fait de nous des «illĂ©gaux» A French version of my essay originally published on
@africasacountry.bsky.social
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@liberation.fr
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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OQTF : comment lâadministration française fait de nous des «illĂ©gaux»
La France est le pays qui dĂ©livre le plus grand nombre dâobligation de quitter le territoire en Europe. Un systĂšme qui fait basculer des vies et reste rarement remis en cause, dĂ©nonce la chercheuse Sh...
https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/oqtf-comment-ladministration-francaise-fait-de-nous-des-illegaux-20260404_FOHKU3Q4EBCRHBL6P5KJUAAVZQ/
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Stefan Ouma
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Just returned from a field trip to the Lake. Prospects are dire. Inflow increased due to deforestation upstreams and potential hydrological system changes owed to geothermal energy extraction. More silt enters the lake, blocking unknown underground exits -> lake becomes shallower & expands in size.
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Jonathan Stegall
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A good read.
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As Kenyaâs Rift Valley lakes expand, swallowing homes, farms, and infrastructure, what appears as a climate anomaly reveals a reckoning with ecological limits, failed planning, and the illusion that water would stay where it was put.
africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...
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The human cost of Kenyaâs expanding lakes
As Kenyaâs Rift Valley lakes expand, swallowing homes, farms, and infrastructure, what appears as a climate anomaly reveals a reckoning with ecological limits, failed planning, and the illusion that w...
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-human-cost-of-kenyas-expanding-lakes
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Despite commercialization and elite capture, the worldâs most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
africasacountry.com/2026/04/you-...
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You canât kick politics out of football
Despite commercialization and elite capture, the worldâs most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/you-cant-kick-politics-out-of-football
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In Guadalajara, fans from three continents celebrated football together in what was a taste of a World Cup that most won't be able to afford or attend.
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In Guadalajara, we found joy
In Guadalajara, fans from three continents celebrated football together in what was a taste of a World Cup that most won't be able to afford or attend.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/in-guadalajara-we-found-joy
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29 days ago
Thanks to
@africasacountry.bsky.social
for working with us on this two-part series on The Underbelly of Conservation, as mining and
#conservation
increasingly work together to dispossess local communities of land and livelihoods in the name of development and environmental protection in West Africa.
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Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity?
Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/could-expanding-protected-land-undermine-biodiversity
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Prominent cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumiâs calls for negotiation reflect practices already in use, but in Nigeriaâs polarized digital space, nuance is punished.
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Being right at the wrong time
Prominent cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumiâs calls for negotiation reflect practices already in use, but in Nigeriaâs polarized digital space, nuance is punished.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/being-right-at-the-wrong-time
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Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
africasacountry.com/2026/03/coul...
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Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity?
Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/could-expanding-protected-land-undermine-biodiversity
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Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.
africasacountry.com/2026/03/wher...
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Where mining and conservation meet
Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/where-mining-and-conservation-meet
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After years of heartbreak, Congolese fans are guarding their expectations ahead of a decisive play-off against Jamaica for a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Yet qualification would mean something bigger than sport.
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Waiting to believe
After years of heartbreak, Congolese fans are guarding their expectations ahead of a decisive play-off against Jamaica for a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Yet qualification would mean something bi...
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/waiting-to-believe
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Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africaâs largest Black nation?
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Trumpism in Nigeria
Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africaâs largest Black nation?
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/trumpism-in-nigeria
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The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africaâand the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
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After the subcontracting state
The struggle over Berbera marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africaâand the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/after-the-subcontracting-state
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A new history of Mombasa shows how street food, colonial labor migration, and urban capitalism reshaped whatâand howâKenya eats.
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Cooking up the city
A new history of Mombasa shows how street food, colonial labor migration, and urban capitalism reshaped whatâand howâKenya eats.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/cooking-up-the-city
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An exhibition in Ibadan recovers Nigeriaâs buried history of activism, raising urgent questions about access, erasure, and whether archives can inspire new political action.
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Who owns the memory of struggle?
An exhibition in Ibadan recovers Nigeriaâs buried history of activism, raising urgent questions about access, erasure, and whether archives can inspire new political action.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/who-owns-the-memory-of-struggle
about 1 month ago
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This this this! Supported directly and indirectly by the United States. Colonialism ver. 2.
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Shoki
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on the stuff we *could* be doing on mondays: "Genuine ethical life and freedom, when it is functioning well, does not feel like history. It feels like Monday."
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Africa Is a Country Weekend Special, Mar 23: May we live in boring times
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