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Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
This week on AIAC: Wangui Kimari and Benjamin Fogel on the politics of anti-corruption, and then the particular case of Tanzania with Sabatho Nyamsenda and Elisa Greco. Subscribe to our Patreon for the podcast archive.
Communities that live and work in African woodlands must become central to conservation efforts.
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution put limits on men’s dominance of public institutions, including parliament. Since then, men have done everything to sabotage it, but also to scrap it altogether.
South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarized urban policing and how we imagine the post-COVID city.
Women in Nigeria’s Kaduna state march naked and partially dressed to demand an end to deadly violence. In the process, they challenge norms about the female body.
Addressing antisemitism in anti-Zionist politics and what Africans can do about the occupation.
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzed major anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius.
The drummer Gilbert Matthews was a visionary of South African jazz. The silences on his passing from official quarters are discordant.
How do we decolonize African literature? AIAC talks about it with Bhakti Shringarpure and Lily Saint. Stream it live Tuesdays on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter. Subscribe to our Patreon for the podcast archive.
It is unfair to expect coherent politics from Naira Marley or his fans, the Marlians. We should, instead, chastise the Nigerian state for stifling its people and keeping its young perpetually waiting.
Arresting and jailing Kenya’s poor isn’t working to cut crime or protect people’s rights. We need something else.
A new film explores the perspectives of Sudanese-American artists navigating their relationships and responsibilities to the revolution back home.
The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives.
The viral sensation “Jerusalema” and its dance challenge reveals a deeper longing and desire to re-imagine the world.
In the first part of a two-part post, the author challenges conventional progressive approaches to “race,” finding them to be untenable with non-racialism.
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
Beyonce offered me escapism in my childhood. But now I see the contradictions and shortcomings in her claimed radicalness.
The legend of Nelson Mandela was built years before his lengthy jail sentence catapulted him to global fame.