DJM (freelance for hire)My mother’s buried story
AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalised from literature, academia, and media — it poses the threat of industrial-scale erasure.
Anticolonialism in the age of fragmentation
The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse: how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism.
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/anticolonialism-in-the-age-of-fragmentation
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
African Music Forum (AMF)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?
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/tanzanias-national-sound
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/
SILAS NYANCHWANI - How Not to Go to Jail for Making Art - The Elephant
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
