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Africa Is a Country
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Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 1d
What does it mean to imagine a city with no fixed essence, only shifting histories and unstable forms of power? Olufemi Terry shares a reading list that inspired his latest novel “Wilderness of Mirrors” africasacountry.com/2025/10/read...
Reading List: Olufemi Terry
What does it mean to imagine a city with no fixed essence, only shifting histories and unstable forms of power?
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How #agroecology is critical to Africa's food security:
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Who pays for Africa’s food future?
A new movement is challenging the financial stranglehold of agribusiness and foreign lenders, arguing that Africa’s future lies not in extractive monocultures but in agroecology, sovereignty, and coll...
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coucoubeubeu.bsky.social @coucoubeubeu.bsky.social · 4d
TW Ce film 🔥
Pour voir comment l'impunité d'un pédocriminel incestueux s'organise dans une famille
Les victimes ayant intériorisé la nécessité de garder de l'image d'une famille unie et la soumission des jeunes filles, des femmes à qui on nie tout respect et humanité
Tout cela en contexte africain
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse. africasacountry.com/2025/10/when...
When the victim isn’t perfect
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 2d
Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future. africasacountry.com/2025/10/ener...
Energy for whom?
Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse. africasacountry.com/2025/10/when...
When the victim isn’t perfect
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d
Who pays for Africa’s food future? Onesmus Karanja and Charles Tumuhe interviewed Chris Macoloo, the regional director for World Neighbors East Africa, for their round up of an agroecology focused forum in Kenya. Read more about it on AIAC youtu.be/tFllsIgLspo?...
Rethinking who pays for Africa’s food future
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 5d
Charlie Kirk was not a household name in South Africa. However, as evidenced by the local outpouring of grief that followed his death, South Africans must confront the truth that his ideas were already at home. africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-...
The mourning of a man, the mirror of a nation
Charlie Kirk was not a household name in South Africa. Yet in the grief that followed his death, South Africans must confront the truth: his ideas were already at home.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 6d
A new movement is challenging the financial stranglehold of agribusiness and foreign lenders, arguing that Africa’s future lies not in extractive monocultures but in agroecology, sovereignty, and collective resistance. africasacountry.com/2025/10/who-...
Who pays for Africa’s food future?
A new movement is challenging the financial stranglehold of agribusiness and foreign lenders, arguing that Africa’s future lies not in extractive monocultures but in agroecology, sovereignty, and coll...
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 7d
A Johannesburg-Cape Town high-speed line could turn apartheid’s corridors of extraction into a green spine of connection, industry, and justice. africasacountry.com/2025/09/back...
Back on track
A Johannesburg-Cape Town high-speed line could turn apartheid’s corridors of extraction into a green spine of connection, industry, and justice.
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Feyzi Ismail @phaisie.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social and Will Shoki for this interview - and thanks also for expertly editing the written version #Nepal
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 11d
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment. africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...
Nepal’s Gen Z reckoning
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 8d
In case you missed it in our newsletter, we are uploading sets from the closing event of the Africa Is a Country Festival this past June in Nairobi. Here is the DJ set from the reunion of Nairobi's Just a Band: www.mixcloud.com/africasacoun...
Just A Band @ Africa Is A Country Festival - Nairobi, 2025
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 8d
From rooftop beginnings to open mics that echo on the streets, Kenya’s newest literary collective shows how art can archive struggle and energize dissent. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...
The poetics of protest
From rooftop beginnings to open mics that echo on the streets, Kenya’s newest literary collective shows how art can archive struggle and energize dissent.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 11d
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment. africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...
Nepal’s Gen Z reckoning
On the AIAC podcast, we speak with Feyzi Ismail about Nepal’s Gen Z uprising that toppled the ruling establishment.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 12d
On his third album, Afro-Portuguese artist Scúru Fitchádu fuses ancestral wisdom with urban revolt, turning memory and militancy into a soundtrack for resistance. africasacountry.com/2025/09/the-...
The sound of revolt
On his third album, Afro-Portuguese artist Scúru Fitchádu fuses ancestral wisdom with urban revolt, turning memory and militancy into a soundtrack for resistance.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 14d
As Cameroon nears its presidential elections, a disintegrated opposition paves the way for the world’s oldest leader to claim a fresh mandate. africasacountry.com/2025/09/biya...
Biya forever
As Cameroon nears its presidential elections, a disintegrated opposition paves the way for the world’s oldest leader to claim a fresh mandate.
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nathanngumi.bsky.social @nathanngumi.bsky.social · 15d
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Multipolarity is good but not a panacea for #Africa:
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Beyond multipolarity
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.
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Mystic @thatgirlmystic.bsky.social · 15d
This is a wonderful piece. @africasacountry.bsky.social
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nathanngumi.bsky.social @nathanngumi.bsky.social · 15d
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Maps are not neutral: rethinking Palestinian liberation beyond cartography
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Redrawing liberation
From Gaza to Africa, colonial cartography has turned land into property and people into populations to be managed. True liberation means dismantling this order, not redrawing its lines.
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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 16d
This is a cautionary tale. The US is doing the same thing regarding food safety.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 16d
In Nigeria, the drive to cut corners has turned food and drink into vectors of illness, sacrificing health and heritage at the altar of profit. africasacountry.com/2025/09/when...
When food becomes poison
In Nigeria, the drive to cut corners has turned food and drink into vectors of illness, sacrificing health and heritage at the altar of profit.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 15d
Hounded out of the United States for his pro-Palestine activism, Momodou Taal insists that the struggle is global, drawing strength from Malcolm X, faith, and solidarity across borders. africasacountry.com/2025/09/from...
From Cornell to conscience
Hounded out of the United States for his pro-Palestine activism, Momodou Taal insists that the struggle is global, drawing strength from Malcolm X, faith, and solidarity across borders.
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Feyzi Ismail @phaisie.bsky.social · 18d
Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social for publishing this piece by @frasersugden.bsky.social and I on the #Nepal situation
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Nepal’s new reality
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.
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nathanngumi.bsky.social @nathanngumi.bsky.social · 15d
@africasacountry.bsky.social @africasacountry.com.web.brid.gy #Palestine
Maps are not neutral: rethinking Palestinian liberation beyond cartography
africasacountry.com/2025/09/redr...
Redrawing liberation
From Gaza to Africa, colonial cartography has turned land into property and people into populations to be managed. True liberation means dismantling this order, not redrawing its lines.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 16d
In Nigeria, the drive to cut corners has turned food and drink into vectors of illness, sacrificing health and heritage at the altar of profit. africasacountry.com/2025/09/when...
When food becomes poison
In Nigeria, the drive to cut corners has turned food and drink into vectors of illness, sacrificing health and heritage at the altar of profit.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 19d
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change. africasacountry.com/2025/09/nepa...
Nepal’s new reality
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 20d
Following two years of mass protest, Kenya stands at a crossroads. A new generation of organizers is confronting an old question: how do you turn revolt into lasting change? Sungu Oyoo joins the AIAC podcast to discuss the vision of Kenya's radical left. africasacountry.com/2025/09/afte...
After the uprising
Following two years of mass protest, Kenya stands at a crossroads. A new generation of organizers is confronting an old question: how do you turn revolt into lasting change? Sungu Oyoo joins the AIAC ...
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Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social · 21d
‘Washington losing primacy, Beijing preparing to take its place. For Africa, however, this framing is unsatisfactory. It risks reducing the continent to a spectator in a drama staged by others’:
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 21d
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons. africasacountry.com/2025/09/beyo...
Beyond multipolarity
The SCO summit in Beijing revealed cracks in Western dominance—but whether they become openings for justice depends on African agency, not new patrons.
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