Africa Is a Country Blog
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Africa Is a Country is a site of opinion, analysis, and new writing on and from the African left. It was founded by Sean Jacobs in 2009.
Africa Is a Country Blog
6d ago
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
6d ago
What do computer generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
2w ago
When the the Palestinian Men’s National Team played an exhibition match in Cape Town, South Africa, it might as well have been a home game ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
2w ago
While social media has amplified calls for social justice in long-ignored parts of the world, it should only be the beginning of our activism ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
2w ago
The failure of South African universities to call out Israel’s genocide challenges the assumption that South Africans have a deep appreciation of injustice in Palestine given their similar experiences under apartheid ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
3w ago
A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
3w ago
This year’s AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire showed that it’s not just the politics of the football that matters, but the politics of the vibe as well ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
3w ago
We hardly think of children as agents of change. At the height of 1980s apartheid repression in South Africa, a group of activists did and gave them the tool of print ..read more
Africa Is a Country Blog
3w ago
La CAN de cette année en Côte d'Ivoire a montré que ce n'est pas seulement la politique du football qui compte, mais aussi la politique de l'ambiance ..read more