Rungano Nyoni’s latest film "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse. africasacountry.com/2025/10/when...

Who pays for Africa’s food future? Onesmus Karanja and Charles Tumuhe interviewed Chris Macoloo, the regional director for World Neighbors East Africa, for their round up of an agroecology focused forum in Kenya. Read more about it on AIAC youtu.be/tFllsIgLspo?...

Charlie Kirk was not a household name in South Africa. However, as evidenced by the local outpouring of grief that followed his death, South Africans must confront the truth that his ideas were already at home. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...

A new movement is challenging the financial stranglehold of agribusiness and foreign lenders, arguing that Africa’s future lies not in extractive monocultures but in agroecology, sovereignty, and collective resistance. africasacountry.com/2025/10/who-...

A Johannesburg-Cape Town high-speed line could turn apartheid’s corridors of extraction into a green spine of connection, industry, and justice. africasacountry.com/2025/09/back...

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social and Will Shoki for this interview - and thanks also for expertly editing the written version #Nepal

In case you missed it in our newsletter, we are uploading sets from the closing event of the Africa Is a Country Festival this past June in Nairobi. Here is the DJ set from the reunion of Nairobi's Just a Band: www.mixcloud.com/africasacoun...

From rooftop beginnings to open mics that echo on the streets, Kenya’s newest literary collective shows how art can archive struggle and energize dissent. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment. africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...

On his third album, Afro-Portuguese artist Scúru Fitchádu fuses ancestral wisdom with urban revolt, turning memory and militancy into a soundtrack for resistance. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

As Cameroon nears its presidential elections, a disintegrated opposition paves the way for the world’s oldest leader to claim a fresh mandate. africasacountry.com/2025/09/biya...

@africasacountry.bsky.social @africasacountry.com.web.brid.gy Multipolarity is good but not a panacea for #Africa: africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...

This is a wonderful piece. @africasacountry.bsky.social

This is a cautionary tale. The US is doing the same thing regarding food safety.

Hounded out of the United States for his pro-Palestine activism, Momodou Taal insists that the struggle is global, drawing strength from Malcolm X, faith, and solidarity across borders. africasacountry.com/2025/09/from...

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social for publishing this piece by @frasersugden.bsky.social and I on the #Nepal situation africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...

@africasacountry.bsky.social @africasacountry.com.web.brid.gy #Palestine Maps are not neutral: rethinking Palestinian liberation beyond cartography africasacountry.com/2025/09/redr...

In Nigeria, the drive to cut corners has turned food and drink into vectors of illness, sacrificing health and heritage at the altar of profit. africasacountry.com/2025/09/when...

The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change. africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...

Following two years of mass protest, Kenya stands at a crossroads. A new generation of organizers is confronting an old question: how do you turn revolt into lasting change? Sungu Oyoo joins the AIAC podcast to discuss the vision of Kenya's radical left. africasacountry.com/2025/09/afte...

‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:

From Gaza to Africa, colonial cartography has turned land into property and people into populations to be managed. True liberation means dismantling this order, not redrawing its lines. africasacountry.com/2025/09/redr...

The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons. africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...

My local community radio station WPFW 89.3, @aljazeera.com of course & @thenewarab.bsky.social @lemonde.fr (has Western colonial bias of course), a number of indie journalists like Chuck Modi local to DC or Talia Jane. @africasacountry.bsky.social & my fellow global social media users for a start.

Colonial urbanism cast African neighborhoods as chaotic, unplanned, and undesirable. In postcolonial Dar es Salaam, that legacy still shapes who builds, who belongs, and what the middle class fears the city becoming. africasacountry.com/2025/09/who-...

From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination—insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and transformation. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

For my Salone people

Floating power plants from Turkey promise to solve blackouts in the Global South. But easy fixes come with political risks. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

[Série "Violences faites aux femmes"] L’absence de statistiques fiables et de stratégie cohérente pour lutter contre les féminicides au #Kenya a laissé place à une culture d’insécurité quotidienne pour les femmes dans le pays. Par Kari Mugo⤵️ #meetoo @africasacountry.bsky.social #mawazoinstitute

At the 13th Berlin Biennale, works from Zambia and beyond summon unseen forces to ask whether solidarity can withstand the gaze of surveillance. africasacountry.com/2025/09/djin...

Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic. africasacountry.com/2025/09/colo...

"The decline of curiosity does not merely affect education or individual improvement; it alters the way people engage with power. In a world engulfed by AI-generated summaries, political discourses are often consumed without scrutiny ..."

In an era when AI delivers the answer before the question is even asked, the sanctity of wonder is slipping away, and soon the act of asking might vanish entirely. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...

"We live in a moment where atrocity is not hidden but hyper-visible […] This is how genocide denial functions now. It rarely arrives as a blunt denial of death […] It does not claim that Palestinians aren’t dying. It simply asks, “how do we know they’re dying like this?” A crucial read—William Shoki

The @artreview.bsky.social newsletter, rather like the @africasacountry.bsky.social newsletter, is consistently excellent. Among the handful of emails I always read & feel grateful for. Good writing, great editing. Allelujah!

"The more our sense of the common world is scattered, the easier it is to erode solidarity, and the harder it becomes to mount any sustained opposition to the violence they champion." A must-read from William Shoki. Writing that meets the moment. africasacountry.com/2025/08/on-s...

On our annual publishing break, Gaza’s genocide continues to unfold in real time yet slips from public grasp. This is not just a crisis of politics, but of how reality is mediated—and why we must build spaces where meaning can still take root. africasacountry.com/2025/08/on-s...

A new opposition coalition in Nigeria claims to speak for the people, but its architects are from the same old political class seeking another shot at power. africasacountry.com/2025/08/poli...

In her latest novel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie examines the contradictions of women’s desires, while leaving her own narrative blind spots exposed. africasacountry.com/2025/08/what...

"France, Noir is too political to say, but nègre is too cultural to erase. In a country that prides itself on being colorblind, Blackness is somehow both hyper-visible and illegible." #Afroeuropeans

The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts. africasacountry.com/2025/08/the-...

As Hollywood recycles pro-war propaganda for Gen Z, Youssef Chahine’s 'Djamila, the Algerian' reminds us that anti-colonial cinema once turned imperial film language against its makers—and still can. africasacountry.com/2025/08/the-...

The reopening of a border between Eritrea and Tigray masks a deeper realignment. As old foes unite against Ethiopia’s government, the risk of renewed war grows. africasacountry.com/2025/08/the-...

Increíble lectura. Por lo visto Francia no piensa dejar nunca a África tranquila.

K. Sello Duiker’s 'The Quiet Violence of Dreams' still haunts Cape Town, a city whose beauty masks its brutal exclusions. Two decades later, in the shadow of Amazon’s new development, its truths are more urgent than ever. africasacountry.com/2025/08/fict...

Against a backdrop of global collapse, one exhibition used Chinua Achebe’s classic to hold space for voices from the Global South—and asked who gets to imagine the future. africasacountry.com/2025/07/when...

An important cold glass of water in the face for those of us who see great #WoSo from CAF players and teams, hoping for more.

Todo lo que leo de este medio me parece muy revelador; esta vez es este texto que analiza las similitudes y diferencias entre la Generación Z y el levantamiento Mau Mau que se dio en Kenia en los años 50.

As former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari’s death is mourned with official reverence, a generation remembers the eight years that drove them out. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-...

Will Shoki's newsletter for @africasacountry.bsky.social is consistently excellent. The latest - which draws attention to those who've suddenly decided that what is happening in Gaza is truly dreadful - is a perfect example. Sign up to the Newsletter to read it for yourselves.