
The Nigerian and the Lenin Prize
Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph was a prominent left nationalist in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. Then he was forgotten. How do we commemorate him?
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Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph was a prominent left nationalist in Nigeria’s struggle for independence. Then he was forgotten. How do we commemorate him?
Anyone who cares about civil society, free speech, and human rights should find the state’s digital silencing of its citizens deeply troubling.
Exploring Senegal’s early post-colonial history, to make sense of the unhappiness with the government of incumbent president Macky Sall.
Mexican American director John Gutierrez new film, set in Cape Town, South Africa, touches on colonialism, displacement, and man’s complicated relationship with nature.
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn’t changed much.
Israel projected itself as a plucky postcolonial nation. Many African nations and leaders bought into it. Israel’s occupation of the Sinai in 1967 changed that.
An interview with the filmmakers, Ousmane Samassekou and Aïcha Macky, about their films: two stunning documentaries creating new narratives about migration.
On AIAC Talk this week, we are tackling Africa’s long and evolving relationship with Asia. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.
Now that we have had time to process it: Uganda’s January 2021 elections were a key step in the country’s long transformation towards a fully fledged neoliberal society.
There can no longer be false justifications for holding Benin Bronzes, and other pilfered materials, in museums outside of Africa.
Mahmood Mamdani’s new book asks how communities that have been enemies can heal. But does it succeed?
A Black South African academic in the United States on breaking the silence on Israeli apartheid in US classrooms and on campuses.
A film about young Rwandan-Canadian creates more questions than it answers, particularly about identification, belonging, and memory.
Episode #39 of AIAC Talk is about exile: a new film on a Libyan dissident and a new exhibition on the black experience. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.
Grégory Pierrot’s searing analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture. He also offers a way out of this.
Western tech companies in Africa often claim to be “social entrepreneurs.” But do their models reduce or contribute to inequality?