Mastodawn

"What can the complete civil disobedience of the Sudanese Professionals Association teach us at a moment when belief in the efficacy of nonviolent protest is in decline?"

https://africasacountry.com/2024/11/no-more-business-as-usual

#CivilDisobedience #CompleteCivilDisobedience #strike #Sudan #AfricaIsACountry

No more business as usual

What can the complete civil disobedience of the Sudanese Professionals Association teach us at a moment when belief in the efficacy of nonviolent protest is in decline?

ritimo Oct 29, 2025

Au #Népal, le soulèvement mené par les jeunes a permis de renverser la vieille garde, mais sa pérennité dépend de la capacité à transformer cette colère suscitée par la corruption et les inégalités en un changement politique durable.

Un article signé #AfricaIsACountry, traduit par Ornella Lowe pour ritimo

https://www.ritimo.org/La-nouvelle-realite-au-Nepal

Ian Hunt Mar 25, 2024

'Less visible tracks in the desert lead to water loss and dehydration. More detours along sea routes lead to water leakage and hypothermia. Environmental actants, and their inhospitable climate conditions, are harnessed by border regimes, rendering migrant bodies untraceable and their death and disappearance depoliticized.' Climate as Border by Nabil Ferdaoussi, on the always interesting Africa is a Country is terrific. #migration #borders #climate #AfricaIsACountry https://africasacountry.com/2024/03/climate-as-border

Climate as border

Although little evidence suggests a direct link between climate change and mass migration, Europe is using “climate migration” to militarize its borders.

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Ian Hunt Dec 24, 2023

#WilliamShoki 2 of 2. 'It may be in the world we inhabit right now that what is basic and what should be guaranteed to all is the preserve of few. But the goal remains for all to have it.

And our work remains to politicize this inequality. To rail against the elite consensus that these deprivations are natural or can’t be helped. . . . ' see more at the ever wise and illuminating #AfricaIsACountry https://africasacountry.com/2023/12/on-safari-13

On Safari

On our year-end publishing break, we consider: what is the work and role of little magazines like our own?

Ian Hunt Dec 24, 2023

#WilliamShoki 1 of 2: 'My impulse—as I’m sure many have felt—is to think any kind of respite a privilege. How can we rest, especially now, when that is denied to many? But this is misguided; it is to invert something that is owed to every person by simple dint of their humanity into something that is enjoyed as something special.' #AfricaIsACountry

Jules she/her Jul 30, 2023

Ah, good old journalistic standards, I see #AfricaIsACountry is doing the rounds again 😔

"The fabrics that Bridget uses are all 100% cotton. They are sourced from various regions in Africa, either directly from the country, or from suppliers based in the UK that trade with Africa, which is Bridget’s home country."

https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/womans-colourful-new-stall-plymouth-8637327

Woman's colourful new stall in Plymouth is already a huge hit

New Plymouth business is African-inspired and clothes are all handmade in the city by creative designer, Bridget Bimha

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Ian Hunt Jul 10, 2023

Amber Sweat at #AfricaIsACountry on the question of which children's childhoods are protected and idealised, and which are not. 'The idea of the child as a universally protected figure requires a critical eye, especially as the dimensions of childhood have been ever-plastic and fluid, molded by colonial histories that empires are nowadays seeking to erase.' #France #Racism #colonialism #Literature #NahelM https://africasacountry.com/2023/07/the-lost-promise-of-childhood

The lost promise of childhood

The state-sanctioned violence committed against children such as Nahel M forces us to revisit the very question of childhood, its privileges, and its roots in the French imperialization of Africa.

Bieke Machiels Mar 14, 2023

We hebben, helaas, opnieuw een winnaar voor #africaisacountry

Ian Hunt Feb 4, 2023

William Shoki #AfricaIsACountry making a spirited defence of the #state in an unusual context: #SouthAfrica Tourism Dept's sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur. 'Sooner rather than later, South Africans must accept that confronting our time’s biggest challenges—energy security and climate change especially—requires a bigger, not smaller government [...] What we need to fight for, is the democratization of the South African state, not its rollback.' #AfricanPolitics https://africasacountry.com/2023/02/everything-the-government-does

Everything the government does

On the South African Department of Tourism's pending sponsorship deal with Premier League football club, Tottenham Hotspurs.

Ian Hunt Dec 15, 2022

Tsogo Kupa's video essay on Ousmane Sembène (soon to be 100!) is the first in a series on African filmmakers. #AfricaIsACountry #Sembène https://africasacountry.com/2022/12/sembenes-africa-is-everyones-africa

Sembene’s Africa is everyone’s Africa

If someone had to hold the title of father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembéne would be the most compelling candidate.