White settler states and secret police forces
How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.
How whites in South Africa, Rhodesia, Angola, and Mozambique acted in unison to thwart independence.
What the murder of a well known constitutional lawyer and professor means for Mozambique.
In the late nineteen-fifties, a brutal but secret war unfolded between French colonial authorities and the maquis, pro-independence nationalists, in the forests of what was then the French administered territory of Eastern Cameroun. The uprising was one of sub-Sahara Africa’s lost independence wars. Most of the fighting, and the ensuing atrocities committed in the name […]
We don't think Njabulo Ndebele minds that we liberally cutting and pasting from a speech he gave back in 2000, about whiteness in South Africa.
Development, broadly defined, has dominated Lesotho’s political discourse throughout its nearly 50 years of independence. This morning, Pakalitha Mosisili of Lesotho’s Democratic Congress (DC) announced the formation of a new coalition government, replacing the All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader Tom Thabane’s first-ever coalition government in Southern Africa. Despite the fact that Mosisili was Prime Minister […]
For the first time in history, a former head of an African state, Hissene Habre of Chad, will stand trial in Africa, before an internationalized tribunal. In Senegal.
Most Ghanaians think "obroni" means "white person" or "foreigner", but it stems from the Akan phrase "abro nipa" meaning "wicked person."
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.
The floods that have devastated much of the southern region of Malawi represent one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s history.
Why aren’t Africans living on the continent part of the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent?
If market-focused empowerment becomes the norm in development, who will want to learn about politics or find out why their countries are poor in the first place?
Two black Capetonians went to rich Camps Bay and filmed white people going on about their lives.
What Egypt’s latest football tragedy says about social divisions in the country.
In sharp contrast to the coverage of Syrian refugees, Western media barely register the escalating Eritrean refugee crisis.
The renaming of a popular Cape Town road after Apartheid's last president, FW de Klerk, opens the debate about memorials in postapartheid South Africa.
There is an established tradition in Economics of talking about Africa from afar, western scholars leading the discussion.
Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.
The horrible tale of football star Joe Gaetjens's football triumphs, his torture and disappearance by Haiti's US's supported dictatorship.
This post, is the first in a new occasional series for Africa Is A Country; Campus Notes. The series adapts research papers by undergraduate students and reformats them for readers of the blog. Many of the AIAC editorial collective are academics; we and are colleagues are fortunate to meet students from around the world whose […]