Against the authoritarian futures envisioned by Silicon Valley’s elites, we must expand the scope of our collective imagination and reclaim the power to imagine otherwise.
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Who can make peace hold?
Ethiopia has already shown that an agreement can stop a war and that an army can retake a capital. Whether peace lasts will be decided by the less spectacular work of making promises enforceable.
Artificial Intelligence
Who gets to dream the future?
Against the authoritarian futures envisioned by Silicon Valley’s elites, we must expand the scope of our collective imagination and reclaim the power to imagine otherwise.
The extinction pitch
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.
The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
Culture
How a child inherits care
Across generations of displacement, struggle, and war in Sudan, ordinary acts of care become a form of inheritance that no violence can erase.
TV
From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public.
Politics
Why does Tunisia become African only when Europe needs it to be?
Tunisia is a Mediterranean market when Brussels wants trade, and an African frontier when Brussels wants border control.
The World Cup
Our coverage of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in North America.
