Sean Jacobs and William Shoki IRL

Just over a year ago, the first episode of AIAC Talk went live. Africa Is A Country founder and editor, Sean Jacobs, and staff writer, William Shoki, got together virtually to host a show on politics and culture from an African perspective.

Beginning during the first wave of COVID-19 transmission in 2020 which saw lockdowns imposed and citizens around the world compelled to remain indoors, it sought to take advantage of the migration of life online to reach captive audiences. It was shortly after when BlackLivesMatter swept the United States and conversations about, and protests against, racial injustice and inequality spread internationally, that the project developed a sense of urgency. It wasn’t like Africa had never experienced its own, horrific incidents of police brutality, which only increased during lockdown – and yet, the frameworks and terms of discussions on this continent felt profoundly American.

AIAC Talk then, aimed to intervene in the discourse so as to “occupy an important space to talk about the world from an African perspective.” A year later, and many of the social fractures exacerbated and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, remain.

In this episode co-hosts Sean Jacobs and Will Shoki meet in person for the very first time and get to livestream Episode 46 of their weekly talk show together.

Catch the new season of AIAC Talk every Tuesday at 6pm SAST / 12pm EST from mid-September on our Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel.

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