• Maher Mezahi

In this week's episode of the African Five-a-side podcast, we delve into how Guinea's first president, and our midfield destroyer, said "No" to France and "Yes" to football.

• Nomi Dave

How Guinea's former president, Moussa Dadis Camara, nearly broke out of prison.

• Vishnu Bachani

Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s latest film traces his search for what is likely the first film made by a Guinean, in the process asking: how is a film culture possible when the infrastructure and institutions are lacking?

• Michelle Engeler
• Carole Ammann

The wives of (former) heads of state form an important part of the political elite in Guinea, considerably shaping the country’s sociopolitical and economic past and present.

• Nomi Dave

Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?

• William Shoki

AIAC Talk is back, and to kick off our second season we head to Guinea to discuss a crisis of state, institutions and public morality with Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui.

• Brooks Marmon

Recalling its Ebola hysteria would help the US better confront COVID-19.

• Nomi Dave

The recent election has led to violence and general pandemonium. An explosion of independent journalism offers hope.

• Moussa Yéro Bah
• Nomi Dave

Black Lives Matter protests build on a long history of anti-racist solidarity and struggle across the Atlantic.

• Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui

Guinea, more than ever, needs an inclusive debate not only on the function of the state, but also on the nature of our institutions and therefore the very state of the republic.

• Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui

La Guinée a plus que jamais besoin d’un débat inclusif non seulement sur le fonctionnement de l’état mais aussi sur la nature de nos institutions et donc l’état même de la république. Je vous propose quelques raisons.

• Clovis Bergère

Who gets to host future editions of the men's soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.

• Clovis Bergère

What if “fake” as a mode of operating on social media held the key to unlocking democratic debate, as the practice would suggest in Africa?

• Nicole Gerber

Guinea's electricity crisis is a metaphor for the country's postcolonial maladies

• Gregory Mann

Why is the conversation in New York about what the government will do about an epidemic, while for West Africa many look instinctively to NGOs?

• Nicole Gerber

There is a certain deja vu about how Alpha Conde stays in power: every time there's an election he exploits ethnic divisions.

• Tom Devriendt

• Dan Moshenberg

Euro-American media just can't do right by Nafissatou Diallo, the Guinean hotel worker who accused a prominent French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault in a New York City hotel. Even though she effectively won the case.

• Emily Wood

Guinean-Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba deftly "merges" aesthetic traditions.

• Tom Devriendt