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Fatima B. Derby
Fatima B. Derby is a Ghanaian feminist writer and queer activist.

Time and Time again
Alex Perry’s work is Exhibition 1,000,003 of the kind of laziness that’s allowed when you write about Africa.

Leave us alone
Breeze Yoko’s mural highlights three African political icons: Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Kwame Nkrumah.
We are the world
Thank You Ghana Black Stars!

Music Fridays: Tinashe
Esto contigo Brasil

Africa on Film: Out of Africa
Our film critic, Allison Swank, rewatches the 1985 film. Her verdict: “Out of Africa” is a media nostalgia piece for a time when whites ruled in Africa.

Black Star Jam

Obrigado, Pelé
A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil’s greatest rival.

El Negrito
Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: “… a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body.”
Just add some Africa
Hold On To Your Hat

Who will play George Weah?
The Daily Show takes on the World Cup

South African music is more than Graceland
What often gets lost within the narratives of oppression and exile is that the 1960s and 1970s also proved to be an exceptionally vibrant and creative period.
(S)hell in the Niger Delta

The World Cup and Pan-Africanism
Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observes that international soccer allows for “a kind of nationalism that expands as your country loses.”
