Africa Is a Country
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Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor. Ntsika Dapo takes a look at citizenship in South Africa through the lens of Mahmood Mamdani africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
The invention of foreigners
From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
From indirect rule to Operation Dudula, the lines dividing citizen from stranger trace back to the way empire organized identity and labor. Ntsika Dapo takes a look at citizenship in South Africa through the lens of Mahmood Mamdani africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
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This names exactly why I just feel burned out rn: a constant barrage of human suffering without actual care to it is deeply alienating and traumatizing and I'm sick of pretending otherwise
Using folk's suffering to feel ethical, then ignoring them, is a monstrous practice we've normalized
Using folk's suffering to feel ethical, then ignoring them, is a monstrous practice we've normalized
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity. africasacountry.com/2025/11/when...
When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.
africasacountry.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This names exactly why I just feel burned out rn: a constant barrage of human suffering without actual care to it is deeply alienating and traumatizing and I'm sick of pretending otherwise
Using folk's suffering to feel ethical, then ignoring them, is a monstrous practice we've normalized
Using folk's suffering to feel ethical, then ignoring them, is a monstrous practice we've normalized
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity. africasacountry.com/2025/11/when...
When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.
africasacountry.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity. africasacountry.com/2025/11/when...
Nairobi’s cultural moment reflects both the promise of continental imagination and the anxiety of performing arrival for the world’s gaze. africasacountry.com/2025/11/glob...
Global Africa for whom?
Nairobi’s cultural moment reflects both the promise of continental imagination and the anxiety of performing arrival for the world’s gaze.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nairobi’s cultural moment reflects both the promise of continental imagination and the anxiety of performing arrival for the world’s gaze. africasacountry.com/2025/11/glob...
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This is a banger of an interview, many gems: “I work as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, I work with low income homeowners. What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner. Really, it is tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio.”
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is a banger of an interview, many gems: “I work as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, I work with low income homeowners. What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner. Really, it is tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio.”
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A good summary of what’s going on in Tanzania, and how we got here:
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed. africasacountry.com/2025/11/afte...
After the coronation
Tanzania’s Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
africasacountry.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A good summary of what’s going on in Tanzania, and how we got here:
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Hurricane Melissa made clear what COP30 obscures: the climate crisis still follows the lines of empire. africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
The geography of a storm
Hurricane Melissa made clear what COP30 obscures: the climate crisis still follows the lines of empire.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hurricane Melissa made clear what COP30 obscures: the climate crisis still follows the lines of empire. africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed. africasacountry.com/2025/11/afte...
After the coronation
Tanzania’s Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
africasacountry.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed. africasacountry.com/2025/11/afte...
In this episode of the African Five-a-side podcast, Maher Mezahi reacts to the 2025/2026 CAF Champions League group stage draw www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yws...
Mokwena drawn against Sundowns! | 2025/2026 CAF Champions League draw reaction
YouTube video by African Five-a-side podcast
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November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In this episode of the African Five-a-side podcast, Maher Mezahi reacts to the 2025/2026 CAF Champions League group stage draw www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yws...
The death of Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader invites a reckoning—not only with his contradictions, but with what his long struggle reveals about the unfinished work of liberation. africasacountry.com/2025/11/rail...
Raila Odinga’s Kenya
The death of Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader invites a reckoning—not only with his contradictions, but with what his long struggle reveals about the unfinished work of liberation.
africasacountry.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The death of Kenya’s most enduring opposition leader invites a reckoning—not only with his contradictions, but with what his long struggle reveals about the unfinished work of liberation. africasacountry.com/2025/11/rail...
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I wrote about ongoing protests in Gabès, in south #Tunisia, against factories that continue to pollute, against 'development' policies that continue to eat away human lives
'The people want to breathe!'
for
@africasacountry.bsky.social
africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
'The people want to breathe!'
for
@africasacountry.bsky.social
africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
The people want to breathe
In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.
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November 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I wrote about ongoing protests in Gabès, in south #Tunisia, against factories that continue to pollute, against 'development' policies that continue to eat away human lives
'The people want to breathe!'
for
@africasacountry.bsky.social
africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
'The people want to breathe!'
for
@africasacountry.bsky.social
africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
Inside the crumbling walls of Nigeria's Old Secretariat, echoes of colonial governance and national awakening meet the silence of decay. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
The architecture of power
Inside the crumbling walls of Nigeria's Old Secretariat, echoes of colonial governance and national awakening meet the silence of decay.
africasacountry.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Inside the crumbling walls of Nigeria's Old Secretariat, echoes of colonial governance and national awakening meet the silence of decay. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
The people want to breathe
In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself.
africasacountry.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In Tunisia’s coastal city of Gabès, residents live in the shadow of the phosphate industry. As pollution deepens and repression returns, a new generation revives the struggle for life itself. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
Far-right and pro-Israel actors are recasting Nigeria’s insecurity as sectarian extermination to distract from Palestine. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
The myth of Christian genocide
Far-right and pro-Israel actors are recasting Nigeria’s insecurity as sectarian extermination to distract from Palestine.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Far-right and pro-Israel actors are recasting Nigeria’s insecurity as sectarian extermination to distract from Palestine. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion. africasacountry.com/2025/10/afte...
After Paul Biya
Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion.
africasacountry.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Cameroon’s president has ruled for over four decades by silence and survival. Now, with dynastic succession looming and no clear exit strategy, the country teeters between inertia and implosion. africasacountry.com/2025/10/afte...
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Rotterdam—home to one of the largest Cabo Verdean diasporic communities
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home. africasacountry.com/2025/10/an-i...
An island nation, everywhere
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Rotterdam—home to one of the largest Cabo Verdean diasporic communities
Assimi Goïta’s regime has built its legitimacy on defiance of the West and promises of renewal. Yet, as the country grinds to a halt under armed blockades and fuel shortages, the fragility of the regime is laid bare. africasacountry.com/2025/10/mali...
Mali’s sovereignty dilemma
Assimi Goïta’s regime has built its legitimacy on defiance of the West and promises of renewal. But with increasing internal pressure, a turn to Moscow risks deepened dependency.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Assimi Goïta’s regime has built its legitimacy on defiance of the West and promises of renewal. Yet, as the country grinds to a halt under armed blockades and fuel shortages, the fragility of the regime is laid bare. africasacountry.com/2025/10/mali...
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"The democratization of literacy ... has toppled governments and challenged established power structures. Rather than being soft and ineffectual tools, stories and words are among the most powerful ways that societies have challenged systems."
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...
Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.
africasacountry.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"The democratization of literacy ... has toppled governments and challenged established power structures. Rather than being soft and ineffectual tools, stories and words are among the most powerful ways that societies have challenged systems."
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home. africasacountry.com/2025/10/an-i...
An island nation, everywhere
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home.
africasacountry.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home. africasacountry.com/2025/10/an-i...
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My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...
Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent - Hay Festival
Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent
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October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...
As Morocco prepares to host AFCON and the 2030 World Cup, a decentralized youth movement is demanding real investment in public services over sporting spectacle. africasacountry.com/2025/10/hosp...
Hospitals versus stadiums
As Morocco prepares to host AFCON and the 2030 World Cup, a decentralized youth movement is demanding real investment in public services over sporting spectacle.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
As Morocco prepares to host AFCON and the 2030 World Cup, a decentralized youth movement is demanding real investment in public services over sporting spectacle. africasacountry.com/2025/10/hosp...
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Some thoughts on AI + literacy in East Africa, with thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...
Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.
africasacountry.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Some thoughts on AI + literacy in East Africa, with thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...
Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.
africasacountry.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. africasacountry.com/2025/10/leap...