Africa Is a Country
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The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures? africasacountry.com/2025/06/when-t…
don’t think this is unique to African lobbyists. the entire system incentives fraud and performance is the currency.
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-gr…
This is a FANTASTIC piece.
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-gr…
In Washington’s think tank ecosystem, Africa is treated as a low-stakes arena where performance substitutes for knowledge. The result: unqualified actors shaping policy on behalf of militarists, lobbyists, and frauds. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-gr…
In echoing the anti-trans panic sweeping the Global North, South African political heavyweight Helen Zille joins a reactionary tradition of racialized sex policing. africasacountry.com/2025/07/helen-…
🔔 NEW EPISODE 🔔 Over the next matchday (five episodes), we'll be recapping African football's greatest matches First up: Algeria vs Egypt, November 2009 youtube.com/watch?v=2hEdpZ…
🔔NEW EPISODE🔔 🎥 Can Nigeria win it's 10th Wafcon title? @ColinUdoh: - Football administrators need mentality change - 🇳🇬 had head start in women's football, but losing it due to lack of funds - Super Falcons players still owed allowances Full video: youtu.be/oR0KD-EBZjQ
YUSUF AHMAD - The Grift Tank. Published via our partnership with @africasacountry theelephant.info/analysis/2025/…
As Mozambique faces escalating climate disasters, it is shut out of the very funds meant to protect it. africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-cl…
My article on BRICS & the legacy of Bandung, first in @africasacountry, is now republished by @OfficialZNET (US) & @kritik_bakis (Turkey). مقالهام دربارهی بریکس و میراث باندونگ که ابتدا در Africa Is a Country منتشر شد، حالا در ZNetwork و Kritik Bakış بازنشر شده است. #BRICS
The 2025 Kenyan protests once again declared themselves “tribeless, leaderless, partyless.” But what does the idiom of unity hide? africasacountry.com/2025/07/all-pu…
Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel. africasacountry.com/2025/07/eurafr…
'Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.' A barren sowing | Luis Castellví Laukamp | @africasacountry africasacountry.com/2025/06/a-barr…
Masterful. The team at @africasacountry is always on point!
Wow… this is an excoriating takedown of the know-nothing grifters presenting themselves as Africa ”experts” in DC; an interesting companion piece to your commentary on the SA media’s complicity @RediTlhabi
'Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.' The quiet violence of peace deals | @africasacountry africasacountry.com/2025/07/the-qu…
A new season of @AfricanFiveSide asks, “what is the greatest match in men's African football?” africasacountry.com/2025/07/matchd…
Re-watching the 1996 Afcon final, and please bring back this way of making substitutions... Aesthetically better and probably less confusing for the fourth officials too