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@africasacountry.bsky.socialThomas More’s Utopia was not written as a metaphor for paradise, but for those trying to organize. What would an African equivalent look like? africasacountry.com/2026/10/utop...
@70sbachchan.bsky.socialReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.socialGreat interview on Africa is a country.
“Brazilianization” to describe a future of informal work, fortified elites, and hollowed-out states that they see arriving in the global North"
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@africasacountry.bsky.socialAs Bolsonarismo outlives Bolsonaro, what does Brazil reveal about where politics everywhere is heading? africasacountry.com/2026/10/braz...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialNigeria’s biggest filmmakers are ditching cinemas and streamers for YouTube. But what looks like a new era is really a return to an old one. africasacountry.com/2026/10/old-...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialWhat happens after abolition, when control over human movement still has a price? africasacountry.com/2026/10/what...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialJulia Ducournau’s third film places a North African family at the center of a national trauma, but French critics largely missed what that choice makes visible. africasacountry.com/2026/10/the-...
@sohw-n.bsky.socialReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.social"[2.]pillar is political expansion. Sudan is a strategic frontier in the UAE’s broader effort to project political influence across Africa without incurring the costs of formal empire. A subimperial power is not a global imperial force; rather, it acts as an imperial actor within its own regional.."
@africasacountry.bsky.socialInside Cameroon’s most overcrowded prison, a recording studio turned incarcerated men into artists. Its founders spent six years filming what it became. africasacountry.com/2026/10/wher...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialThe UAE shares no border with Sudan and faces no refugee crisis from its war. It has only an interest in the country’s gold, ports, and in making sure a popular revolution doesn’t spread. africasacountry.com/2026/09/the-...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialWhat becomes possible when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is, even briefly, set down? africasacountry.com/2026/09/we-a...
@tylermcbrien.comReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.socialAnd read William Shoki's thoughtful piece on the saga in @africasacountry.bsky.social here: africasacountry.com/list/campaig...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialA diaspora vote won Snit Tewoldemedhin the People’s Choice Award at Miss World. But the freedom to choose is exactly what Eritreans at home don’t have. africasacountry.com/2026/09/who-...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialeLDee’s latest single reignited an old debate about women, money, and dating in Nigeria. But no one really chooses these gendered arrangements shaped by economic insecurity and unequal access to opportunity. africasacountry.com/2026/09/the-...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialWith the return of AFCON qualifiers, @mahermezahi.bsky.social kicks off this season's coverage of African football on the African Five-a-Side podcast youtu.be/blN7VwL4hkQ?...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialA dispute inside a household in N’Djamena becomes a lesson in what money cannot substitute for: recognition, trust, and everyday human dignity. Republished from The Elephant africasacountry.com/2026/09/peop...
@africasacountry.bsky.socialDangote’s refinery ended Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel and became Africa’s most important energy asset overnight when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. But it also became the country’s most powerful monopoly. africasacountry.com/2026/09/too-...
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@jonathanstegall.bsky.socialReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.social“Tech fetishism, the ascription of human agentive powers to machinery, is always a political act. It obscures that the goals, the purposes embodied in any technology, are human purposes.”
@sohw-n.bsky.socialReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.social"What they were rejecting was not African same-sex practice or gender variance. What they were rejecting was a Western political identity organized around a Western sexual ontology. (...) The culture wars of America are now torching the social fabric of Africa."
@jonathanstegall.bsky.socialReposted by @africasacountry.bsky.socialA fascinating read. “What broke was not the regime itself, but rather the impression of its permanence; in a formation of this type, that impression is not merely decorative but an integral part of the power structure.”
