• Abdullahi Boru Halakhe

The Mo Ibrahim Prize rewards African presidents for promoting democracy. But there's no proof the prize has had any effect or that it is needed.

• ​​Muzan Alneel

The best support that the Sudanese revolution can get from international allies is for them to reject and fight their own governments’ efforts to force a government of killers on Sudan for the second time.

• William Shoki

After unrest in July and municipal elections in November, it's clear South Africa is in the midst of a serious social, economic and political crisis. What are the roots of it? Listen to this episode of AIAC Talk to find out.

• Andile Zulu

In both the rebuke and lionization of F.W. De Klerk, who recently died, there is an attempt to squeeze power into the zone of emotional sentiment.

• Claire Raga
• Savo Heleta

In a country like South Africa where government trust is low, gangsters and criminals who provide assistance to their communities are seen as the people’s champions.

• Naipanoi Lepapa

On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.

• Youlendree Appasamy

Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?

• Caroline Velli

We have to become more open to the possibility that what our society needs is not better policing, but less. And ultimately no policing at all.

• Peter Hoffman

Will Ethiopia’s civil war blow up its dream of a single state, and in the process, blow up Western notions of statebuilding?

• William Shoki

On this week's AIAC Talk: Haiti is not down on its luck, it is deliberately under-developed by Western powers.

• Hala Al Karib

Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: Their human rights are at stake.

• Paul T. Clarke

A new book on policing in South Africa wants to go beyond the usual call for reform. But adapting literature tuned for reform to the task of abolition is a difficult needle to thread.

• William Shoki

This week's episode of AIAC Talk is a replay of the launch of the latest issue of Amandla! magazine, a South African publication advancing radical left perspectives for change.

• Youjin Chung
• Marie Gagné

Plus d'une décennie après la vague mondiale d'acquisitions de terres à grande échelle, elles ont toujours des conséquences néfastes pour ceux qui dépendent de la terre comme fondement de leur vie.

• Mordecai Ogada

How the International Union for Conservation of Nature Congress continues be a farce, and perpetuates a fake conservation in Africa: basically the interests are just commerce.

• Dan Mafora

Mogoeng Mogoeng, South Africa’s chief justice from 2011 to 2021, is midwifing the conservative turn in South Africa’s public life. From retirement, he may also eye public office.

• Abdullahi Abdille Shahow

Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.

• Peter Lobese
• Khokhoma Motsi
• Ayanda Kota

Instead of voting for the bankrupt ANC or DA, South Africans could do better with social movement candidates in upcoming local elections.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk we discuss the start of Thomas Sankara's assassination trial, which confirms that for many Burkinabes, his spirit very much lives on.

• Zama Ndlovu

If re-municipalization—returning a privatized service to local public control—is to work in South Africa, we need other forms of social contracting between municipalities and citizens.