AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

JULY 4. 2025

Afrophobic metamorphosis

Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.

JULY 3. 2025

The world isn’t broken, it was built this way

From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.

JULY 2. 2025

Madaniaao: Answering the wrong question of the Sudanese Revolution

Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.

JULY 1. 2025

Africa’s last neoliberals

As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture —and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?

JUNE 30. 2025

Liberté, Égalité, Colonisé

The empire France never gave up.

When the Crowds Go Home

Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, the question remains: what happens when the crisis endures?

Party People

Recipes for the cookshops of anti-neoliberalism.

Madaniaao: Answering the Wrong Question of the Sudanese Revolution

Sudan’s revolution removed a dictator but left intact the deep structures of racialized hierarchy, militarism, and elite rule. Resistance committees built new forms of power, but without rupture, the old order reassembled itself.

Africa’s Last Neoliberals

As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture —and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?

Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century

The vestigial remains of the French empire are riddled with contradictions—and a new generation of leaders is prepared to dispose of them.

More Loss, More Damages: Africa in the Green Transition

From Nairobi’s floods to the Finance Bill protests, Kenya’s green transition reveals not a break from the past but a deepening of elite-led extraction. Framed as opportunity, it is climate capitalism by another name—and it’s being met with growing resistance.

The Politics of the Football Terrace

In Algeria, football stadiums have long been sites of protest, expression, and resistance. As public space shrinks and surveillance rises, their political future hangs in the balance.

Taking A Stand

When stadiums became schools for mobilization.

Monumental Shifts

When statues fall, do old orders fall too?