The Republic V9, N3 An African Manual for Debugging Empire

Our August-October 2025 print issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire, confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI.With writing from Angola to South Sudan, this issue features Republic editor, Wale Lawal, in conversation with Kenyan writer Nanjala Nyabola; Dawn Chinagorom-Abalakam on African and artificial intelligence; Otobong Inieke on the geopolitics of digital technology in Africa; Oyindamola Depo-Oyedokun on the revolutionary rise of Piggyvest. This issue also includes writing by Boluwatife Oyediran on the debates about the acceptability of generative AI in art; Rui Verde on Angola’s inorganic techno-democracy; art, comics, quizzes and much more!

Total pages: 84.

This issue can be ordered now and will be shipped from 15 September 2025. For more details and for all orders 100 and above, please reach out to us directly.
We have also resumed local pickups for readers based in Lagos.
Our pick up address is 18 Palace Road, Oniru, Victoria Island Lagos and we are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during weekdays only. For pick up, email: sales@rpublc.com.

Cover art: Olalekan Jeyifous.