ANARCHISM.AFRICA Studio

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A living index of films, articles, events, sound, books and objects from afro-anarchist practice — Africa & diaspora.

From the library

Essays, interviews, library notes — curated by COOLHUNTPARIS.

Films

Documentary, fiction, field. Tap any film to play.

Library & Magazine

Essays, interviews, library notes.

Events & Expos

In person across Africa & diaspora — and online.

Music

Sound from communes, soundsystems and self-released artists.

Books

A reading list and an open library.

Marketplace

A horizontal octopus: in-house POD, allied shops worldwide, services, seminars, jobs. Punk · pan-african · ecological.

Community

Open to all consumers. Sign in to post.

Ambassadors

Become a local steward. Host events, run reading circles, translate. Apply below.

Crowdfund

Pool resources for projects, expos, soundsystems and zines.

Manifesto

A working creed — drafted in conversation, not handed down.

No gods. No masters. No managers. No warehouse. No waste.

ANARCHISM is older than its name in Africa. In every market women's coop, every susu, every chama, every tontine, every harambee, every commune that runs without a chief — the practice is already there. We did not invent solidarity. We re-membered it.

1 · Sankofa is a strategy, not a souvenir.

To reach back is not nostalgia. The forms work because they are tested. We learn from before what now refuses to teach: how to share land, how to share grief, how to share decisions without a single throat doing the talking.

2 · Pan-African by practice, anti-state by conviction.

The state is not the only way to organise life — and in our histories it has rarely been the kindest. We do not wait for permission, recognition, funding rounds, or the next election to do what mutual aid has always done. We do not romanticise borders our grandmothers crossed before they were drawn.

3 · The diaspora is not a hyphen, it's a circuit.

Lagos · Brixton · Brooklyn · Salvador · Tunis · Marseille · Cape Town · Accra. Sound, paper, code, rumour — they travel together. The platform is one of those vehicles. Use it.

4 · Refuse the warehouse.

Everything we sell is print-on-demand. No stockroom. No deadstock. No unpaid intern packing boxes at 2am. Every object on the shop is carbon-tracked, organic-cotton or recycled paper, made by certified eco-providers. If the planet does not survive, the revolution does not survive.

5 · The library is open.

Walter Rodney free in 14 cities, with marginalia. Translation grants for Twi, Yoruba, Wolof, Lingala, Darija. The reading circle has no entrance fee. The bookshelf is what we organise around — not who curates it.

6 · The soundsystem is the polity.

Dub, polyrhythm, kuduro, kwaito, gnawa, amapiano — sound technologies have always been mutual-aid technologies. The crew that builds the rig is the crew that holds the meeting. Pay what you can. Bring water. Bring a friend. Bring a zine.

7 · Ambassadors, not influencers.

You can become a local steward — host a reading circle, run a screening, translate, organise a soundsystem night. We do not pay you to perform. We pool resources and we share the harvest. Apply on the Ambassadors tab.

8 · Models, not masters.

The AI inside this app is a tool. It speaks Gemini today and Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi or Yi tomorrow — whatever serves. It does not run the room. The room runs the room.

9 · No copyright on liberation.

Articles, music stems, posters, fonts and source code are open where we can make them open. Attribution is mutual aid. Theft from the commons is not.

10 · Build the archive.

The point is not to argue. The point is to leave more behind than we found. If you read something here and it changes how you organise on Tuesday — that is the whole project.

Pan-African · Anti-state · Pro-people.

Drafted in conversation. Edit it with us.

About

A library, a magazine, an expo and a giftshop — held together by mutual aid.

ANARCHISM.AFRICA is stewarded by LUVLAB (admin) and curated by COOLHUNTPARIS (publishers), with merch handled by staff and projects co-created with partners. Consumers can become ambassadors, post in community, and crowdsource projects. Everything we sell is print-on-demand from sustainable certified providers.

Underground · Terminal client

aa --help

A punk, pan-African command-line client. Browse films, read the library, play music through your system player, talk to A.A.AI — all without a browser. Zero dependencies, single Node script.

[anarchist@africa]$ curl -sSL https://anarchism-africa.vercel.app/aa.sh | bash
View source

requires node 18+ · drops to ~/.local/bin/aa or /usr/local/bin/aa

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