Africa Is a Country
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Texto revelador. "Poseer nuestros minerales nunca ha obligado a una mujer a morir por un embarazo que la ley debía terminar. Estas cosas no deberían estar en tensión."
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 2w agoA charter twenty African governments just endorsed defends seed sovereignty and economic independence in one breath, and moves to gut abortion and queer rights in the next. africasacountry.com/2026/08/betw...
This publishing break, we contemplate why we’re all feeling so burnt out. africasacountry.com/2026/08/on-s...
On Safari
This publishing break, we contemplate why we’re all feeling so burnt out.
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When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial history behind it. africasacountry.com/2026/08/ceut...
A border spectacle
When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial his...
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A charter twenty African governments just endorsed defends seed sovereignty and economic independence in one breath, and moves to gut abortion and queer rights in the next. africasacountry.com/2026/08/betw...
Between feminism and pan-Africanism
A charter twenty African governments just endorsed defends seed sovereignty and economic independence in one breath, and moves to gut abortion and queer rights in the next.
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"Sovereign AI cannot mean that data remain inside national borders while the infrastructure around them becomes inaccessible to the society hosting it. The real test is simpler: After the servers are switched on, is there more power, more capacity, and more public value than there was before?"
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 4w agoAfrica’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems. africasacountry.com/2026/07/the-...
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency secures thousands of convictions every year, but when it comes to politically-connected elites, it’s a different story. africasacountry.com/2026/08/the-...
The prosecutions that never happen
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency secures thousands of convictions every year, but when it comes to politically-connected elites, it’s a different story.
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Joseph O’Neill’s new novel follows a Pittsburgh writer chasing a West African wonderkid. It’s also a story about who profits every time the world goes looking for the next Eusébio. africasacountry.com/2026/08/the-...
The price of potential
Joseph O’Neill’s new novel follows a Pittsburgh writer chasing a West African wonderkid. It’s also a story about who profits every time the world goes looking for the next Eusébio.
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From Eko Atlantic to the Niger Delta, elite enclaves have become the defining spatial expression of Nigeria’s political order. africasacountry.com/2026/08/sove...
Sovereign rot
From Eko Atlantic to the Niger Delta, elite enclaves have become the defining spatial expression of Nigeria’s political order.
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If you're headed to the Durban International Film Fest this weekend, be sure to check out our documentary After Oil on Friday night. ccadiff.ukzn.ac.za/diff-47/afte...
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems. africasacountry.com/2026/07/the-...
The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
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Although Nelson Mandela lacked the oratory of Nkrumah and the theory of Senghor, his contribution to the world of ideas was something rarer: pragmatism. africasacountry.com/2026/07/afri...
Africa’s last philosopher king
Although Nelson Mandela lacked the oratory of Nkrumah and the theory of Senghor, his contribution to the world of ideas was something rarer: pragmatism.
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Nigeria’s democracy has become dangerously fixated on capturing the presidency. Reviving regional politics may be the country’s best hope for rebuilding democratic accountability. africasacountry.com/2026/07/no-p...
No president will save Nigeria
Nigeria’s democracy has become dangerously fixated on capturing the presidency. Reviving regional politics may be the country’s best hope for rebuilding democratic accountability.
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Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · last mo.In apartheid South Africa, Drum magazine showed Black readers what it meant to be modern. But not everyone got to be modern in the same way. africasacountry.com/2026/07/meas...
“Foreignness is being asked to do more than describe legal status. Legal status may affect legal consequences. But why should it alter the moral weight of the act?” Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh in @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...
The right to belong imperfectly
In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing.
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»Documentation is a privilege built on the histories of war, dispossession, and dislocation that produce the undocumented in the first place. South Africans know this all too well—and yet find themselves marching into a repeated history.«
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · last mo.A landmark housing ruling in Cape Town and anti-migrant marches in Durban look like opposite stories. But they are two extremes of the same colonial question: who is permitted to occupy space? africasacountry.com/2026/07/who-...
Behind Tunisia’s panicked headlines about falling birth rates is the darker demand that reproduction itself be policed in the name of racial purity. africasacountry.com/2026/07/the-...
The politics of demography
Behind Tunisia’s panicked headlines about falling birth rates is the darker demand that reproduction itself be policed in the name of racial purity.
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A landmark housing ruling in Cape Town and anti-migrant marches in Durban look like opposite stories. But they are two extremes of the same colonial question: who is permitted to occupy space? africasacountry.com/2026/07/who-...
Who will pay to belong to South Africa?
A landmark housing ruling in Cape Town and anti-migrant marches in Durban look like opposite stories. But they are two extremes of the same colonial question: who is permitted to occupy space?
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From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it. africasacountry.com/2026/07/the-...
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
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Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonial rule. africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...
Odyssey to Africa’s last colony
Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonia...
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For a century, African musical heritage was recorded, boxed, and shipped to museums abroad. In Nairobi, a new generation of archives is bringing cultural memory home — and putting it online. africasacountry.com/2026/07/from...
From colonial storage to open access
For a century, African musical heritage was recorded, boxed, and shipped to museums abroad. In Nairobi, a new generation of archives is bringing cultural memory home — and putting it online.
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Successive debt regimes in Ethiopia have shown that external finance can protect sovereignty, finance coercion, or build development, sometimes all at once. africasacountry.com/2026/07/ethi...
Ethiopia’s debt problem
Successive debt regimes in Ethiopia have shown that external finance can protect sovereignty, finance coercion, or build development, sometimes all at once.
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In apartheid South Africa, Drum magazine showed Black readers what it meant to be modern. But not everyone got to be modern in the same way. africasacountry.com/2026/07/meas...
Measured bodies and moving men
In apartheid South Africa, Drum magazine showed Black readers what it meant to be modern. But not everyone got to be modern in the same way.
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Saudade, saudade....
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · last mo.Cabo Verde’s historic run and the breakthrough performances of fellow African and Caribbean nations changed the conversation about visibility, opportunity, and the future of African football. africasacountry.com/2026/07/what...
Cabo Verde’s historic run and the breakthrough performances of fellow African and Caribbean nations changed the conversation about visibility, opportunity, and the future of African football. africasacountry.com/2026/07/what...
What Cabo Verde’s World Cup debut means for African football
Cabo Verde’s historic run and the breakthrough performances of fellow African and Caribbean nations changed the conversation about visibility, opportunity, and the future of African football.
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An engaging and insightful analysis as we watch a global game whose stars cannot be obviously reduced to or represented by their national badge. “If anyone expects these three to be emissaries of some all-encompassing pan-Africanism, disappointment lies ahead."
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 2mo agoFootball’s three mixed Maghrebi and Black African stars are not emissaries of a new pan-Africanism. And the continent doesn’t need them to be. africasacountry.com/2026/07/what...
A really helpful read for leftists everywhere, I think.
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Conference of the Left was not a solution to the crisis of the South African left, but an opening. What follows must be built differently from what came before. africasacountry.com/2026/07/no-s...
Episode 3 from our World Cup road trip stops off in Toronto for Ghana's last minute goal and a vibrant community celebration in Sankofa Square youtu.be/W74kqNl1F04?...
World Cup Road Trip: Episode 3 (Sankofa Square)
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I don’t work in a newsroom anymore of course but I learned the habit that makes me think of @africasacountry.bsky.social’s Cabo Verde World Cup hot take. africasacountry.com/2026/06/no-s...
No stress
Cabo Verde’s national team is at the World Cup for the first time in their history. To understand why they might surprise everyone, you need to understand morabeza.
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Very excited to dive into this later.
Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · last mo.The Kenyan government’s reaction to the present moment of necessary generational disobedience resembles the way colonial regimes used to respond to the question of the “detribalized native.” africasacountry.com/2026/07/ungo...
No World Cup matches means, plenty of time to catch up on World Cup reading. Check out our series focusing on African perspectives at the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. africasacountry.com/series/2026-...
