Removing a dictator
How did popular music become the battlefield of Uganda's future? And what are the consequences?
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What a year. Stay safe, wear a mask, social distance and when the vaccine becomes available where you are, get vaccinated.
A Port of Spain Christmas
On Christmas Day, AIAC Radio heads to Trinidad and Tobago to celebrate a unique Black Atlantic tradition.
The problem with generalizations
Despite the media's wish for a neat story, the African continent's response to COVID-19 is all over the map.
The legacy of violence in the struggle for South Africa
An excerpt of an essay, titled “Nongoloza’s Ghost,” in Lapham’s Quarterly. It's published in partnership with Africa Is a Country.
Renewable energy’s dark side
As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who's profiting.
A Cuban individual
A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party's agenda.
Notes on fake decolonization
What counts as “authentic” decolonization as the term takes over our social media and influencer bubbles? And how we can sharpen our activism.
Diego Maradona, anti-imperial symbol
For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.
We will learn for free and by force
Members of the Capitalism In My City project reflect on the commodification of education in Kenya.
Tips from the apocalypse
Speculative fiction by writers from Africa explore viral apocalypses. What can we learn from art on catastrophe?
