AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

JUNE 11. 2025

Mozambique’s mid-life crisis

After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?

JUNE 10. 2025

Return the gods

The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.

JUNE 9. 2025

The end of AGOA

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

JUNE 6. 2025

Goïta, gift to the insurgents

Despite the popularity of the Sahel's military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.

JUNE 5. 2025

Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology

Africa's biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.

JUNE 4. 2025

Between Washington and Beijing

Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.

JUNE 3. 2025

The resurgence of Benin sound

Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national culture to the center.

JUNE 2. 2025

Fighting for the waste commons

A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.

MAY 31. 2025

Hope after liberation

A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.

MAY 30. 2025

Sunday service on two wheels

In Johannesburg, a new generation of Black cyclists is redefining joy, movement, and solidarity—taking over the streets to ride, to reclaim space, and to reimagine freedom.

MAY 29. 2025

What to do about Kenya’s femicide problem?

A lack of reliable statistics and coherent strategy to address femicide in Kenya, has left a culture of everyday insecurity for women in the country.

MAY 27. 2025

How to unmake the world

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

MAY 26. 2025

A migrant’s tale

On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.

MAY 23. 2025

The global gateway to nowhere

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.