• John Edwin Mason

The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.

• Fati Abubakar

The author grapples with how to photograph the lives of her neighbors in a part of North East Nigeria, where Boko Haram is on a reign of terror.

• Keith Hamusute

In 1994, Zambia was on the cusp of qualifying for the World Cup. After a tragedy wiped out the national team it lost to bad refereeing.

• Kampire Bahana

A new film and how to change minds about who is at fault for Uganda’s endemic violence against women.

• Rishi Nath

Ishmael Reed explores the future of race in America in new work, focusing in on black-South Asian solidarities.

• Steven Friedman

The reason why African teams struggle in the World Cup has everything to do with colonialism.

• Sebastian Abbot

When African football officials stop being corrupt and identify and develop young talent, an African nation would have a real chance of winning the World Cup.

• Camalita Naicker

How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?

• Haythem Guesmi

Tunisia played England in France '98. English hooligans attacked Tunisians in the streets of Marseille. Algerians came to Tunisians' rescue.

• Ashwin Desai

A remembrance for Father's Day.

• Kwesi Foli

One Ghanaian football fan wrestles with which teams to support in this year's World Cup after the Black Stars failed to qualify.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi

Reflections on World Cup fever from Cairo and my Canadian immigrant father's Egyptian football nationalism.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.

• Rene Lemarchand

It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.

• Stephen Coplan

South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history — 24 years after the end of Apartheid.

• Ainehi Edoro
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika
• Wilfred Okiche
• Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì
• Fareeda Abdulkareem
• Toyin Ajao
• Dotun Ayobade
• Sean Henry Jacobs

A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz's take on Childish Gambino's viral "This Is America."

• Andy Kasrils

Why has Childish Gambino's "This is America" video resonated with so many people around the world?

• Boima Tucker

Chief Boima and Francesca Harding on race and cultural difference in Latin America through the lens of trap music.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi
• Sean Henry Jacobs

Sergio Ramos' injury to Mohamed Salah in the 2018 UEFA Champion's League final set him up for a world of insults from Egyptian football fans.

• Issa Shivji

History will reward those thinkers whose ideals and actions remained aligned with the people.