Africa Is a Country

Africa is a Country is getting a makeover

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Africa is a Country is getting a makeover

By
Sean Henry Jacobs

We're updating our design and will be back soon with a fresh new look. Stay tuned.

The author in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town.

If you’re wondering what this stripped-down design on the blog is all about, we’re getting a new look and will be back soon. Meanwhile, you can visit or sign up to our Facebook and Twitter pages until then or stare at this picture of me chasing some kind of pheasant in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town a few years ago. Update: Neelika says it is an Egyptian goose.

Image: Sean Jacobs.

Further Reading

How to unmake the world

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

A migrant’s tale

On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.

What Portugal forgets

In the film ‘Tales of Oblivion,’ Dulce Fernandes excavates the buried history of slavery in Portugal, challenging a national mythology built on sea voyages, silence, and selective memory.

Quando Portugal esquece

Em ‘Contos do Esquecimento,’ Dulce Fernandes desenterrou histórias esquecidas da escravidão em Portugal, desafiando uma mitologia nacional construída sobre viagens marítimas, silêncio e memória seletiva.