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
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.
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/
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.
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
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-yours
2 - 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
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
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
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."
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/
DJM (freelance for hire)
African Music Forum (AMF)
