AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

JULY 12. 2025

The quiet violence of peace deals

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

JULY 11. 2025

In death, we part

What happens when a former president suddenly dies? The curious case of Edgar Lungu.

JULY 10. 2025

Whose game is remembered?

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.

JULY 9. 2025

The sound of black identity

A landmark documentary uncovers the radical soul scene that electrified 1970s Rio, inspired Black consciousness, and terrified Brazil’s military dictatorship.

JULY 7. 2025

Sovereignty or supremacy?

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

JULY 4. 2025

Afrophobic metamorphosis

Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.

JULY 3. 2025

The world isn’t broken, it was built this way

From Congo to Gaza, the machinery of empire hides behind the language of aid and development.

JULY 2. 2025

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.

JULY 1. 2025

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?

JUNE 30. 2025

Liberté, Égalité, Colonisé

The empire France never gave up.

When the Crowds Go Home

Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, the question remains: what happens when the crisis endures?

Party People

Recipes for the cookshops of anti-neoliberalism.

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?