• SPORTS
• Culture

06.18.2025

Critical mass

• Mejah Mbuya

Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.

• Culture

06.17.2025

Sinners and ancestors

• Alexanderia Haidara

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.

• SPORTS
• Culture

06.16.2025

The verdict against womanhood

• Lee Nxumalo

From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.

• SPORTS
• Culture

06.13.2025

It’s Gianni’s world (cup)…

• Maher Mezahi

On the eve of the kick off of FIFA’s newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?

• Politics

06.12.2025

Firearms aren’t the only weapons

• Priscilla Marques Campos

The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the independence struggle. They are now available in English.

• Culture

06.12.2025

As armas não só de fogo

• Priscilla Marques Campos

Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.

• Politics

06.11.2025

Mozambique’s mid-life crisis

• Marílio Wane

After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?

• Politics

06.11.2025

Moçambique em crise de meia idade

• Marílio Wane

Depois de 50 anos de independência em Moçambique: o quê e como celebrar?

• Culture

06.10.2025

Return the gods

• Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi

The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.

• Politics

06.09.2025

The end of AGOA

• Makena Maganjo

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

• Politics

06.06.2025

Goïta, gift to the insurgents

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Despite the popularity of the Sahel’s military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.

• Culture

06.05.2025

Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology

• Fatoumata Bah

Africa’s biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.

• Politics

06.04.2025

Between Washington and Beijing

• Mebratu Kelecha

Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.

• Culture

06.03.2025

The resurgence of Benin sound

• Timothy Edaki

Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria’s national (and international) culture to the center.

• Culture

06.02.2025

Fighting for the waste commons

• Rosalind Fredericks

A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.

• Culture

05.31.2025

Hope after liberation

• Akuol de Mabior

A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.

• SPORTS
• Culture

05.30.2025

Sunday service on two wheels

• Kristen L. Miller

In Johannesburg, a new generation of Black cyclists is redefining joy, movement, and solidarity—taking over the streets to ride, to reclaim space, and to reimagine freedom.

• Politics

05.29.2025

What to do about Kenya’s femicide problem?

• Kari Mugo

A lack of reliable statistics and coherent strategy to address femicide in Kenya, has left a culture of everyday insecurity for women in the country.

• Culture

05.27.2025

How to unmake the world

• Noland Oswald Dennis

In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.

• Culture

05.26.2025

A migrant’s tale

• Yaw Asare

On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.