Liz Timbs

Nov 28, 2024 | africasacountry.com | William Minter |Liz Timbs |Christopher J. Lee

Like many other people in the Global South, I put my hope in ordinary Americans. Unlike us, Americans have more power and say in almost everything. Any of our countries can suffer under sanctions imposed by the US, or be invaded and occupied for decades with no recourse or justice. Any of our countries can be bombed to dust, and somehow the rest of the world cannot do anything because of the veto that the US enjoys and uses to protect their client states. So, we put hope in Americans.

Aug 2, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Simon Adetona Akindes |Matthew Kirwin |Liz Timbs

As any sports fan knows, the Paris Olympics have arrived. This year’s Games, as with each of these quadrennial festivals of global sport, I’m rooting for everybody Black. Issa Rae said this during the 2017 Emmy Awards, and it is easy to apply this principle to the Olympics, which, with its provocative patriotism and proxy-war-like “nation vs. nation” orientation, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against that hypernationalism.

Jul 24, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Simon Adetona Akindes |Matthew Kirwin |Liz Timbs

On Friday evening, the world’s attention will lock in on the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games as they return to Paris, the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Games. Over its 128-year history, de Coubertin’s Olympiad has experienced some quite radical changes. His inaugural 1896 Games in Athens saw participation from just a dozen nations, while 206 are expected to take part this summer in Paris.

Feb 21, 2024 | africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Liz Timbs

Africa Is a Country is happy to announce our new collaboration with The Nigerian Scam podcast, which focuses on examining how episodic iterations of audacious fraud in Nigerian history and contemporary politics intertwine with the ongoing struggle for African independence in the intricate web of global capitalism.

Sep 15, 2023 | africasacountry.com | Jill Kelly |Liz Timbs |Sean Jacobs

In the days since the passing of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Mntwana wakwaPhindangene, South African government officials and party leaders from across the political spectrum have descended on KwaPhindangane to honor the late leader—and to position themselves among the custodians of Zulu nationalism. Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party organized his memorial service in Ulundi.