Politics
Uhuru Kenyatta can’t have his cake and eat it too
The current leadership in Kenya is made up of individuals whose personal interests run through virtually every sector of Kenya’s economy. Including when they negotiate trade deals.
Like an infant in a suffocating hold
The stories of African immigrants to the United States tell vivid tales of unimaginable anti-Blackness through foreign terrains.
Lessons from Africa’s past to cope with COVID-19
How managing COVID-19 and other crises necessitates Africa’s structural transformation, and what we can learn from the early post-independence development projects.
The emptiness of anti-corruption politics
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.
The grand plan to save forests has failed
Communities that live and work in African woodlands must become central to conservation efforts.
The soft, patriarchal underbelly of Kenya’s Parliament
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.
Johannesburg cannot police its future
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.
The radical politics of women’s bodies
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.
How to build Palestinian solidarity internationally
Addressing antisemitism in anti-Zionist politics and what Africans can do about the occupation.
The myth of South African nationality
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Oil, protest and mass solidarity in Mauritius
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzed major anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius.
Abolish Kenya’s prison system
Arresting and jailing Kenya's poor isn't working to cut crime or protect people's rights. We need something else.
The hallucinatory bunker of the white right
The anti-Black Lives Matter backlash in South Africa highlights the growing ideological convergence between the far right and conservatives.
A seca quando chove
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
The global rise of the right-wing
Chelsea Stieber and Christopher McMichael talk the growth of right-wing nationalist movements and their ideological roots on AIAC Talk.
What Africa and Asia can teach each other
Once African and Asian leaders looked towards each other for guidance. What possibilities can a renewed cross-continental solidarity offer?
Hospitali za mabepari
Ubinafsishaji wa huduma ya afya nchini Kenya.
In the shadow of a liberation war
Kenya needs to understand the Oromo cause and what is happening across the border in Ethiopia.