Across Kenya’s urban centers, young men are being recruited into political militias that offer quick cash, fleeting power, and little chance of escape. africasacountry.com/2026/04/keny...

The Pope’s African tour tested whether the papacy can speak to ordinary people without becoming a prop for authoritarian power. africasacountry.com/2026/04/prea...

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. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

Watch A Film:

We’re excited to share the trailer for our first featured documentary “After Oil” 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

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. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

How to fix a match for $280 Burundi’s football league rarely draws headlines making it an easy target for match-fixing networks:“The people involved come from all over the world, Russians, Belgians, French, Congolese, Ugandans” For @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/04/how-...

instead of reading this horrible thing, read @chelseastieber.bsky.social's 2019 essay in @africasacountry.bsky.social

Akinola Davies Jr’s feature-length debut traces how Nigeria’s military rule collapsed the boundary between political crisis and intimate life, leaving families to bear the cost of authoritarian power. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

Fifteen years after NATO’s intervention in Libya, economic collapse and foreign subjugation have fueled renewed support for Gaddafi-era stability. africasacountry.com/2026/04/afte...

Burundi’s football league rarely draws headlines—making it an easy target for match-fixing networks now entrenched in its top division. africasacountry.com/2026/04/how-...

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. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

"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."

after oil

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 politics—and still resonate today. africasacountry.com/2026/04/sove...

As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africa’s reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity. africasacountry.com/2026/04/fiel...

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

I just published a lil' think piece addressing some aspects of Tanya Zack's book "The Chaos Precinct" 🌟 📄 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.

In Johannesburg’s 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. africasacountry.com/2026/04/more...

Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africa’s youth remain locked out of power and decent work. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

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

Texto revelador.

The language of fiscal consolidation is meant to sound inevitable. But for Kenya's informal workers, the human cost is anything but abstract. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

A new documentary reveals how Ethiopia’s manufacturing push redistributes land, labor, and opportunity—delivering gains for some while displacing others. africasacountry.com/2026/04/whos...

If you missed it last week, we launched a new sports focued newsletter "The Corner Flag" edited by @MezahiMaher. Check it out here t.co/QQQmfTEHoA and subscribe on Africa Is a Country. africasacountry.com/newsletter

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 @africasacountry.bsky.social buff.ly/JagrnCv

"There is a paradox that catches in your throat. A growing freshwater lake—you would think that’s 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.

Paulo Nazareth's latest show in Berlin follows the cunning architecture of power, from Germany to Brazil and across continents and epochs. africasacountry.com/2026/04/art-...

Eritrea’s recent progress in AFCON qualifying offered a rare feel-good moment, but new player defections underline how fragile that progress remains amid the country’s political realities. africasacountry.com/2026/04/betw...

Often, in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities. africasacountry.com/2026/04/who-...

There was a great @jeasjournal.bsky.social 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...

🌍🌐 @mcchacha.bsky.social 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

In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life. africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-...

OQTF : comment l’administration française fait de nous des «illégaux» A French version of my essay originally published on @africasacountry.bsky.social is now up on @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

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.

A good read. @edgeofsports.bsky.social might appreciate.

As Kenya’s 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-...

Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world’s most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism. africasacountry.com/2026/04/you-...

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. africasacountry.com/2026/04/in-g...

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.

Prominent cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s calls for negotiation reflect practices already in use, but in Nigeria’s polarized digital space, nuance is punished. africasacountry.com/2026/04/bein...

Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology. africasacountry.com/2026/03/coul...

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...

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. africasacountry.com/2026/03/wait...

Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation? africasacountry.com/2026/03/trum...

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 Africa—and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse. africasacountry.com/2026/03/afte...

A new history of Mombasa shows how street food, colonial labor migration, and urban capitalism reshaped what—and how—Kenya eats. africasacountry.com/2026/03/cook...

An exhibition in Ibadan recovers Nigeria’s buried history of activism, raising urgent questions about access, erasure, and whether archives can inspire new political action. africasacountry.com/2026/03/who-...

This this this! Supported directly and indirectly by the United States. Colonialism ver. 2.

Shoki @africasacountry.bsky.social 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." africasacountry.com/list/campaig...