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Hosted by Will Shoki, the Africa Is a Country Podcast is a weekly destination for analysis of current events, culture, and sports on the African continent and its diaspora, from the left.
Our most recent recording features the celebrated Nigerian poet, psychiatrist, and music critic Dami Ajayi. The major thread of discussion c...
In June 2025, Africa Is a Country held its inaugural Festival of Ideas in Nairobi—a week of screenings, workshops, panels, and long, searchi...
In September 2025, Nepal experienced one of the most significant waves of political unrest in its recent history. Led largely by Gen Z prote...
On June 25, 2024, Kenya entered a new political era. Sparked by opposition to the Finance Bill—a package of regressive taxes pushed by Presi...
Discussions about ongoing attempts to move beyond the US dollar as the hegemonic currency of world trade often focus on the official policie...
This episode was recorded in the wake of the recent public controversy surrounding the suspension of Nigerian Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagha...
Recorded on the anniversary of the coup that removed Kwame Nkrumah on February 24, 1966, and in the wake of Ghana’s recent presidential inau...
Recorded as Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived for bilateral talks with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, this episode ex...
In an unprecedented election year, more voters than ever in recorded history will have headed to the polls by the end of 2024—in at least 64...
Despite being one of the world's major crude oil producers, Nigeria has depended for decades on imports of refined petroleum products to mee...
On September 7, 2024, Algeria’s incumbent president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, was re-elected for a second five-year presidential term with 94.6...
On July 7, France heads to the polls in the second round of a legislative election widely viewed as a referendum on the country's future. Th...
Over the last two weeks, Kenya has been rocked by widespread protests against a controversial law that aims to raise taxes. The 2024 Finance...
Nigeria has a corruption problem—this is hardly breaking news. Less often acknowledged, however, is the fact that Nigeria has long had a vib...
On this episode of Just Us Under A Tree, Dan Mafora, Elisha Kunene, and Tanveer Jeewa discuss the recent slew of litigation and controversia...
Africa is a Country is happy to announce our new collaboration with The Nigerian Scam podcast , which focuses on examining how episodic iter...
Africa Is a Country is proud to present a new collaboration with the South African podcast Just Us Under a Tree. Once a month we will host a...
In late September, Egypt’s Electoral Commission announced that the country will hold presidential elections in mid-December of this year. On...
Last week, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the hosts for the 2025 and 2027 African Cup of Nations. Morocco won the rig...
Sierra Leone will elect a president and parliament on June 24, its fifth election since a devastating 10-year civil war ended in 2002. Incum...
For nearly two months, fighting has continued in Sudan between two factions of the country’s military government—the Sudanese Armed Forces,...
Across the world, renewed social unrest—from public sector wage strikes in the United Kingdom, to protests against pension reform in France—...
In December, one of the most right-wing governments in Israeli history came to power. Led by Benjamin Netenyahu—who serves as Prime Minister...
South Africa is currently being gripped by a devastating energy crisis with homes and businesses suffering blackouts for up to sixteen hours...
On February 25, Africa’s largest democracy and economy will elect its president and parliamentary representatives. This will be Nigeria’s se...
Last year, left-wing veteran Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated right-wing Jair Bolsonaro in an historic election for Brazil. The victory wa...
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a multi-polar order started taking shape. Determined to impose economic costs on Putin’s regime for its...
On December 7, 2022, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was impeached. Castillo ascended to the job in a watershed election in 2021, carrying...
This year’s FIFA Men’s World Cup is now in its business end. So far, it’s exceeded expectations in terms of spectacle. From Vincent Aboubaka...
Need we say more? Thirty-two teams have converged in the tiny Middle-Eastern nation of Qatar to fight for their national pride, and so far,...
In 2019, legendary African writer and public intellectual, Binyavanga Wainaina, passed away. A few weeks ago, a collection of Wainana’s earl...
The legacy of apartheid displacement and dispossession was meant to be remedied in democratic South Africa. Although the government has deli...
August marked 10 years since the Marikana massacre, when police in South Africa shot down 34 striking mineworkers at a platinum mine in the...
It goes without saying that the climate crisis is the problem of our time. Yet, despite rhetoric from governments and big corporations that...
Will is joined by returning guest, Nihal El Aaser, to discuss the roots of Egypt’s ongoing economic crisis. In The New Arab , Nihal argues t...
Will is joined by Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, to discuss her latest book, Disorder, Hard Times i...
Will chats to Professor Vivek Chibber about his latest book, The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn . Why, despite the powe...
Organized through the Academics Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), academics at Nigeria's public universities are on strike. They're seekin...
Earlier this week, AIAC editor Sean Jacobs asked : “Where do African countries fall in the threatened invasion of Ukraine by Russia? Will Af...
Senegal’s victory at the African Cup of Nations caused jubilation across the continent. The Lions of Taranga’s triumph was long seen as over...
In 2019, South African dairy giant Clover was taken over by Milco, a consortium led by Israel’s Central Bottling Company – which also operat...
Pio Gama Pinto was a Kenyan socialist activist and intellectual who was assassinated in 1965, shortly after Kenya won independence two years...
In the last year and a half, military takeovers have occurred in Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan, and last week, in Burkina Faso. It happens that...
Are South Africa’s unions relevant? Are they still too closely connected to the politics of the country’s ruling party, the African National...
China’s involvement in Africa is typically viewed with skepticism. Many think its development initiatives seek to trap African states in exp...
The 33rd edition of the African Cup of Nations football tournament began today, Sunday, 9 January, in Cameroon. AIAC founder and editor Sean...
In the final episode of AIAC Talk for the year, Will is joined by AIAC founder and editor Sean Jacobs for a conversation with Steven Friedma...
The arrest in July of former president Jacob Zuma in connection with an investigation into widespread corruption sparked an eruption of unre...
2021 is being roundly pronounced as “a great year for African writing.” From Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel award to South African...
Haiti is going through hard times. From the assassination of a sitting president to an earthquake soon after, preceded by years of economic...