The development of technology (under capitalism) just feels like a long sequence of inventing ways to have enough time to do what you actually want to do.

A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!

In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful. Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall. Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

San Francisco staves off Ice invasion while federal police amass in the East Bay? africasacountry.com/2021/03/what...

My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...

The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures? africasacountry.com/2025/06/when...

We’re live in Nairobi radio.calotropis.xyz/static/uploa...

I really can’t imagine what experiencing a world war was like when your only updates came once a day from newspapers, radio broadcasts, or the previews before a Charlie Chaplin film.

Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!

Booked a window seat so I could stare out at the Amazon, only to realize that a RAINforest isn’t that interesting from 30,000 ft.

What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?

Changed paper towel dispenser backstage so Ben Harper could dry his hands. He nodded at me while dripping water into the sink.

I was now years old when I found out Flag Day was a thing in the US, and last week's years old when I found out celebrating a national flag (in this case Peru) was even a thing.

Saw there was a bloghouse book.

That they tagged up the federal building with anti-ICE graffiti that just happens to be next to MOCA is brilliant.

So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.

It’s amazing how useless the Internet has become if you’re not actually logged into anything that’s spying on you.

First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?...

Tomorrow, May 25 Africa Is a Country will host its last co-presentation at the 32nd NY African Film Fest: the premiere of "When I Say Africa." With Sean Jacobs as executive producer and @chiefboima.bsky.social as music supervisor, Africa Is a Country is extra proud to present this film.

Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics. africasacountry.com/2025/05/afro...

This looks fantastic, and it premieres at the New York African Film Festival on May 24 (at BAM). whenisayafrica.com

I think Benito made me realize that I’m finally at a point removed from the business of music that I can be a fan of music again.

Work has recently led me to believe that Gen-Z are marketing geniuses, but sometimes you get the feeling that systems are forcing them perfect their craft in that alone.

The Fanti Carnival transforms Lagos’s Brazilian Quarters into a vibrant celebration of history, culture, and Afro-Brazilian identity. A beautiful photo essay from Kelechi Anabaraonye: africasacountry.com/2025/03/an-a...

RIP Bob Uecker. A hall of fame broadcaster, sitcom dad, and the man behind the greatest book title/tagline in history

A little sprinkle of hyphy and daggering www.instagram.com/reel/DDn9D7W...

Why did it take me this long to realize there was an Old Hampshire?

Had no idea Neneh Cherry was Sierra Leonean…

One week ago, the AIAC Facebook page was suspended for violating “community standards.” While we try and figure that out, read the following interview about the de-platforming of "African Stream," exemplifying the new landscape for digital publishing. africasacountry.com/2024/11/when...

Not like us africasacountry.com/2024/05/bewa...

My marketing class: Influencer marketing is the fastest growing segment of advertising. Me: We used to call that selling out.

Well, considering that the whole white people take over the world thing started because the Portuguese wanted some pepper…

Current status:

Can we normalize cyborg discourse instead of AI?

Interview I did with Nelson Freitas is now live on Rhythm Lab’s Mixcloud, includes a free ticket to Cabo Verde: www.mixcloud.com/rhythmlab/rl...

I did a thing on Cote d’Ivoire for Radio Milwaukee www.mixcloud.com/rhythmlab/rl...

If there’s something that American media taught me it’s that it doesn’t matter what you’re saying as long as you make it look cool.

Example: x.com/bigmeaninter...

I feel like perhaps Andre Bazin’s writing on film is an underappreciated frame through which to understand AI.

I’ve been to Carnival many times but I was 40 before I realized in my hometown people just eat jelly doughnuts.

My yearly reminder from VOD services that it’s time for black history.

Work break: africasacountry.com/2023/12/on-s...

Discourse on Colonialism …

Why do beat cops waddle like they just got off a horse in a dusty western town?

Just learned the meaning of Sahel in Arabic is “easy” and that Sahara is “desert” and my mind is blown.

When normal life is interrupted it really exposes the bots who are tasked to run things.

X is fully becoming a dark web spam bot site.

I’m no macroeconomist, but it certainly seems funny that more people with jobs = bad for the market…

It’s time to just play Amapiano at house speed again.