*Not the continent with 55 countries
Africa is a Country was founded by Sean Jacobs in 2009, growing out of the blog Leo Africanus (2007-2009). It started as an outlet to challenge the received media wisdoms about Africa from a left perspective, informed by his experiences of resistance movements to Apartheid.
Since then it has grown in size to include a larger geographic scope and, crucially, launched the careers of a number of young African and diaspora writers, scholars and artists to a point where as the South African newspaper Mail & Guardian concluded:
Try as you might, it is hard not to turn an online corner in Africa without bumping into Africa is a Country.”
Today it features online commentary, original writing, media criticism, videos, audio, and photography, becoming one of the leading intellectual voices in the African–particulary from the left–online media sphere.
We are also on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Mixcloud.
Team
Editor and Founder
Managing Editor
Copy Editor
Editorial Board
Marissa Moorman
Dan Magaziner
Dylan Valley
Caitlin Chandler
Zachary Rosen
Oumar Ba
Elliot Ross (2011-2016)
Neelika Jayawardane (2010-2016)
Contributing Editors
Sisonke Msimang
Grieve Chelwa
Samar Al-Bulushi
Anakwa Dwamena
Benjamin Fogel
Lina Benabdullah
Maria Hengeveld
George Kibala Bauer
Sarah al-Saarawi
Noah Tsika
Football is a Country
Elliot Ross
Sean Jacobs
Africa is a Radio
Boima Tucker
Team
- Editor and Founder
- Sean Jacobs
- Managing Editor
- Boima Tucker
- Copy Editor
- Andrea Meeson
- Editorial Board
- Elliot Ross
- Neelika Jayawardane
- Marissa Moorman
- Dan Magaziner
- Dylan Valley
- Caitlin Chandler
- Zachary Rosen
- Contributing Editors
- Sisonke Msimang
- Grieve Chelwa
- Oumar Ba
- Football is a Country
- Elliot Ross
- Sean Jacobs
- Africa is a Radio
- Boima Tucker