The empire France never gave up.
Further Reading
When the Crowds Go Home
Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, the question remains: what happens when the crisis endures?
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.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: After Rhodes Fell
A decade after a bucket of excrement triggered the largest post-apartheid student movement, Fallism’s legacy gestures toward a future where the social utility of universities remains uncertain, but the frustrations of South Africa’s youth are poised to erupt.
Memories of Movement
An experimental reimagining of protest memory — unsettling the archive and inviting viewers to ask what movements leave behind.
Struggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.
A barren sowing
Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.
From Cape To Cairo
When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?
De-dollarization from bellow?
As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.
Everyday Iranians
Between Israeli bombs and state repression, ordinary Iranians are once again denied control over their own future.