#aiac — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aiac, aggregated by home.social.
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How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-read-postcolonial-writing
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Tanzania’s national sound?
What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it?
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-build-a-just-green-future
#Africa #SouthAmerica #AIAC #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Amazon #Colonialism #GlobalSouth
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The price of survival
South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.
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How Not to Go to Jail for Making Art
Published by the Pan-African Network for Artistic Freedom, the first issue of PANAF Voices is a testimony to persistence in the face of artistic repression across the continent.
https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/05/08/how-not-to-go-to-jail-for-making-art/
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The new scramble for Congo
Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk
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The new scramble for Congo
Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk
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The new scramble for Congo
Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk
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The new scramble for Congo
Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/the-new-scramble-for-congo#Africa #Congo #DRC #RDC #USPol #Sanctions #AIAC #Corruption #Rwanda #ElonMusk
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About African music, Music industry, Afrobeats, etc.
1 - The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast [+ transcript], the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours2 - Global Sound, Local Loss: Africa's Music Money Gap
African music dominates global charts, but less than 0.4% of industry revenue returns home.
https://www.okayafrica.com/global-sound-local-loss-africas-music-money-gap/1427679 -
About African music, Music industry, Afrobeats, etc.
1 - The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast [+ transcript], the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours2 - Global Sound, Local Loss: Africa's Music Money Gap
African music dominates global charts, but less than 0.4% of industry revenue returns home.
https://www.okayafrica.com/global-sound-local-loss-africas-music-money-gap/1427679 -
About African music, Music industry, Afrobeats, etc.
1 - The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast [+ transcript], the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours2 - Global Sound, Local Loss: Africa's Music Money Gap
African music dominates global charts, but less than 0.4% of industry revenue returns home.
https://www.okayafrica.com/global-sound-local-loss-africas-music-money-gap/1427679 -
About African music, Music industry, Afrobeats, etc.
1 - The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast [+ transcript], the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours2 - Global Sound, Local Loss: Africa's Music Money Gap
African music dominates global charts, but less than 0.4% of industry revenue returns home.
https://www.okayafrica.com/global-sound-local-loss-africas-music-money-gap/1427679 -
About African music, Music industry, Afrobeats, etc.
1 - The music is not yours
On the latest AIAC podcast [+ transcript], the gang from the Nigerian Scam explores how Afrobeats got globalized, who captured the value, and why the party may be ending.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/the-music-is-not-yours2 - Global Sound, Local Loss: Africa's Music Money Gap
African music dominates global charts, but less than 0.4% of industry revenue returns home.
https://www.okayafrica.com/global-sound-local-loss-africas-music-money-gap/1427679 -
Who gets to be a civilian?
Often in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/04/who-gets-to-be-a-civilian
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Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity?
Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/could-expanding-protected-land-undermine-biodiversity
#Africa #WestAfrica #Conservation #Colonialism #Mining #AIAC
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Where mining and conservation meet
Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.
“the reinvention of nature as capital”
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/where-mining-and-conservation-meet
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Trumpism in Nigeria
Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation?https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/trumpism-in-nigeria
"Naming Trump’s Nigeria project for what it is—a racial-capitalist strategy that converts identity into imperial advantage—clears conceptual space for a different politics."
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The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by [the Iran] war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa—and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/after-the-subcontracting-state
Adapted from "When Tehran Burns, the Horn Bleeds": https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2026/03/19/when-tehran-burns-the-horn-bleeds/
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Slow death by food
Illegal gold mining is poisoning Ghana’s soil and rivers, seeping into its crops and seafood, and turning the national food system into a long-term public health crisis."the most potent form of ecological violence"
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Please compare:
- "This Billionaire Traded Glam for a Mission to Industrialize Nigeria" in NYT (archive: https://archive.is/h4nNb ), heavily debunked here: https://www.1914reader.com/p/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print
with
- Aliko Dangote needs the Nigerian state to thrive (2018 - AIAC)
https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/entrepreneurs-in-africa-need-a-strong-state-to-thrive
(it all started under Abacha's dictatorship, himself a kleptocrat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sani_Abacha ) -
As you probably already know, following the posts here, I would never write this phrase: "his [Fela Kuti] influence persisted in contemporary Nigerian music, now called Afrobeats." Never...
https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/afrobeats-after-fela
BTW, Amapiano, used extensively in Wizkid's album, is from South Africa...
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We, the illegals of France
France’s mass deportation orders reveal how colonial logics persist in migration policy, turning former subjects into administrative problems to be expelled.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/we-the-illegals-of-france
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A world reimagined in Black
By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed—and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/a-world-reimagined-in-black
Review of French's book "The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide" (2025)
#Africa #AIAC #Books #Ghana #Colonialism #PanAfricanism #Diaspora
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The trouble with “showing the real Africa”
iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/02/the-trouble-with-showing-the-real-africa
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What Kwame Nkrumah knew about profit shifting
From colonial accounting tricks to modern tax havens, Nkrumah understood how capital escapes, and why political independence was never enough.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/01/what-kwame-nkrumah-knew-about-profit-shifting
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The golden light of Pops Mohamed
From Actonville to global stages, Pops Mohamed blended tradition, futurism, and faith—leaving behind a musical archive as luminous as the spirit he carried.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/12/the-golden-light-of-pops-mohamed
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The economic emancipation of the American working class cannot come at the expense of the global working class.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/12/what-graham-platner-reveals-about-the-us-left
#USPol #AIAC #Imperialism #Colonialism #WorkingClass #GlobalSouth
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Beyond independence
The post-colonial settlement has left Africa vulnerable to conflict, external pressure, and intellectual dependency. What comes next?https://africasacountry.com/2025/12/beyond-independence
What would it mean for Africa to declare its independence again?
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Trump’s beef with Nigeria
Trump’s threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/trumps-beef-with-nigeria
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Davido’s appearance at 'Amapiano’s biggest concert' turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/davidos-jacket#SouthAfrica #Nigeria #AfroHouse #Amapiano #Racism #AfroPhobia #AIAC
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How much does a Nigerian intellectual cost?
The country that once produced some of Africa’s fiercest moral voices now struggles to sustain independent thought.https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/how-much-does-a-nigerian-intellectual-cost
"The digital revolution, which might have democratized access to information and expanded platforms for dissent, has, instead, accelerated the degradation of public discourse."
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The coup kids are in charge now
Across the continent’s new coup belt, young officers are stepping into power, casting themselves as guardians against corrupt civilian elites.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-coup-kids-are-in-charge-now/“praetorian plebeianism”
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Whose transition is it anyway?
https://africasacountry.com/2025/11/whose-transition-is-it-anyway"It feels as if the die is already cast for Africa’s first G20 presidency to become another performance where leaders proclaim sovereignty while signing deals that deepen dependency, and Ramaphosa styling himself as a champion of the continent while mining elites carve up the spoils."
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From Africa Is a Country Weekend Special, Oct 20: Doubling down on despair
See also: The gaming industry is turning every smartphone into a casino — and it’s destroying more lives than ever.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/the-house-always-wins"The globalization of gambling thus expresses a broader collapse of the work-reward compact. For most people, the future no longer arrives through labor, education, or politics, but through luck."
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From the vault: 2020
Roti and roses
Interview with Zohran Kwame Mamdani -
After the coronation
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
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The myth of Christian genocide
Far-right and pro-Israel actors are recasting Nigeria’s insecurity as sectarian extermination to distract from Palestine.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/the-myth-of-christian-genocide
"Israeli lobby groups are operating in Nigeria, some under the cover of the strength of the diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and the US."
#Africa #Nigeria #AIAC #Imperialism #Palestine #Israel #USPol
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Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo.https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/leapfrogging-literacy
"27% people in Kenya use Open AI platforms daily." Where does this stat come from? Seems fake to me... How many users are gig workers?
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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.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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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.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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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.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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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.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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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.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/10/energy-for-whom
Oh, look, Total Energies in full (neo)colonial mode, with the support of France, ofc...
#Africa #Uganda #Tanzania #AIAC #ACS2 #EACOP #StopEACOP #France #ClimateCrisis
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Afrophobic metamorphosis
Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/07/afrophobic-metamorphosis
"sporadic xenophobic 'attacks' morphed into a formalized paramilitaristic 'civil movement,' and the phantasm of the African immigrant was crystallized."
#Africa #SouthAfrica #AIAC #AfroPhobia #Immigration #Capitalism #Poverty
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Long / #MustRead
"The convergence of Trump’s tariff nationalism and Musk’s corporate-driven agenda lays bare a hard truth: Africa’s economic fortunes are still far too subject to decisions made elsewhere, for interests other than Africa’s own."
https://africasacountry.com/2025/06/between-washington-and-beijing