AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

TODAY

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.

YESTERDAY

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.

MAY 22. 2025

What Portugal forgets

In 'Tales of Oblivion, ' Dulce Fernandes excavates the buried history of slavery in Portugal, challenging a national mythology built on sea voyages, silence, and selective memory.

MAY 21. 2025

Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation

Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.

MAY 20. 2025

After the digging, who remembers?

In the aftermath of the Stilfontein mining tragedy, South Africa must confront not just policy failure but a deeper amnesia: the erasure of women, memory, and indigenous ethics from its extractive economy.

MAY 19. 2025

Velvet rebellions

The oppositional sartorial lens of Congolese sapeurs exposes the limits and frailties of representation work in New York's Met Gala.

MAY 16. 2025

South Africa’s American refugees

Cape Town’s digital nomads chase cheap luxury and scenic backdrops—but behind the matcha lattes and “social impact days” lies a deeper story of economic power, displacement, and global inequality.

MAY 15. 2025

The other route to the American dream

With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US—via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.