• Efthimios Karayiannides

While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.

• Elizabeth Schmidt

Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?

• William Shoki

On our annual publishing break, we ask: if the opposite of “weird” is normal, what if normal is equally problematic?

• Maher Mezahi

Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Rachel Dubale

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?

• Alex Park

The ultra-conservative American televangelist Pat Robertson has died. As poisonous as his influence on American politics was, Robertson’s legacy in Africa is even more cynical.

• Wamuwi Mbao

While there is much to mourn about the passing of legendary American singer and actor Harry Belafonte, we should hold a place for his bold statement-album against apartheid South Africa.

• Sheila D. Collins

American civil rights activist George Houser was also active in Africa’s anti-colonial struggle. To write his biography, Sheila Collins widely read 20th century African political history.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Buharism, the social and economic outlook of Nigeria’s outgoing president, did not seek an alternative to neoliberal globalization, but sought to consolidate Nigeria’s place in it.

• Daniel Paget

Authoritarian populism isn’t the only authoritarian project we should be worried about, as Tanzania under the late John Magufuli showed.

• William J. Mpofu

The war in Ukraine indicates a new world disorder, where great powers fight for primacy and Africa continues to be exploited.

• Mongi Henda

Fear of the future, longing for the past: the new story in South African politics.

• Ramy Allahoum

Sahrawis are robbed of their agency by a zero sum game for influence between two regional rivals Morocco and Algeria.

• Niall Reddy

With the globe-spanning rise of right-wing populism, there may be good reason to fear for South Africa’s fledgling democracy.

• Siphiwe I. Dube

South African politics remain fertile ground for new orientations: mainly by black conservatives.

• William Shoki

Post the looting and failed insurrection, what would it mean for the South African left to undertake a populist political strategy? And should it look to South America for inspiration? A long read.

• James Yeku

Anyone who cares about civil society, free speech, and human rights should find the state’s digital silencing of its citizens deeply troubling.

• William Shoki

On AIAC Talk this week, we are tackling Africa’s long and evolving relationship with Asia. Watch it live Tuesday on YouTube.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They're surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.