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The vestigial remains of the French empire are riddled with contradictions—and a new generation of leaders is prepared to dispose of them.

From Nairobi’s floods to the Finance Bill protests, Kenya’s green transition reveals not a break from the past but a deepening of elite-led extraction. Framed as opportunity, it is climate capitalism by another name—and it’s being met with growing resistance.

In Algeria, football stadiums have long been sites of protest, expression, and resistance. As public space shrinks and surveillance rises, their political future hangs in the balance.

When stadiums became schools for mobilization.

When statues fall, do old orders fall too?

An experimental reimagining of protest memory — unsettling the archive and inviting viewers to ask what movements leave behind.

Seven years that shook — and nearly remade — Sudan.

Mobilization through the ages

The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.

Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

As global powers debate alternatives to the dollar, Nigerian traders, Chinese exporters, and everyday crypto users are already reshaping the rules of currency exchange, as the hosts of the Nigerian Scam find out in the latest episode of the AIAC podcast.

Between Israeli bombs and state repression, ordinary Iranians are once again denied control over their own future.

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.