For French President, Emmanuel Macron, recruiting various African intellectuals turned out to be a key asset in trying to shift the Françafrique narrative, while simultaneously protecting French interests on the continent.
An anthology brings together 27 international scholars to deepen our understanding of popular culture on the African continent.
What happens when black and brown authors write about white people? Although novels by Chinelo Okparanta and Mohsin Hamid tread into this risky unknown, they do not go far enough.
What foot does Italy’s neo-Fascist prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, stand on to lecture France on its monetary colonialism in Africa?
The former executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission on Africa, makes his case as to why Africa should take advice on development politics and knowledge from Asia.
The 2022 Men’s World Football Cup is in its knockout stages, so the Africa Is a Country podcast catches up with some of the most exciting events so far in the tournament.
The changing structure of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) threatens the food security of the Global South.
What can historians of Eastern Europe learn from Ghanaian responses to the Russian invasion?
The 22nd FIFA Men’s World Cup, held in Qatar, is getting political. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the sport and the politics with Tony Karon and Sean Jacobs.
Political encounters between the Arab Gulf and Africa span centuries. Mahmud Traouri's novel 'Maymuna' demonstrates the significant role of a woman’s journey from East Africa to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
More than class solidarity alone, more than a technocratic climate justice, a reckoning with empire is necessary for our collective survival.
It’s not common knowledge that there is Iran in Africa and there is Africa in Iran. But there are commonplace signs of this connection.
Climate negotiations have repeatedly floundered on the unwillingness of rich countries, but let's hope their own increasing vulnerability instills greater solidarity.
Whether or not Twitter survives should be irrelevant to those committed to building a democratic public sphere.
How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?
Although films like 'The Woman King' offer us a small glimpse into the past, they cannot give us the full story.
The author of 'Decolonize Museums' assembles a list of essential reading on the past, present and future of museums.
African women exercise their right to migrate, but also face dilemmas on their way to the unknown. We need policies that protect them.
We need to stop looking to Euro-America and its models and traditions, especially religion, as the source of all answers to the problems of the African continent and its people.
African migrant women are exposed to intersectional systems of violence but are not simply victims.