• Fiifi Anaman

It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?

• Soni Brown

On the island of Fanon’s birth, French colonial violence persists.

• Priscilla Marques Campos

Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action.

• Priscilla Marques Campos

Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo.

• Brant Roberts

In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Londiwe Gamedze

The film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

• Magdala Louis

When Haiti’s national women’s team take to the field for ninety minutes, they allow the Haitian people to dream.

• Arthur Musah

A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.

• Sobukwe Shukura

Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.

• Ignacia Cortés Rojas
• Simon Adetona Akindes

Chile’s march to a progressive constitution and egalitarian transformation has stalled. What can movements in the Global South learn?

• Brooks Marmon

A new film about American civil rights icon Bayard Rustin overlooks his later conservative turn, evident in his attitudes to anticolonial resistance in Africa.

• Rachel Dubale

What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?

• Ezequiel Tedesco

One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In Colombia, doing straightforward political music carries many risks, including confronting state repression, political armed rebellions, and organized crime.

• Timothy Kumfer

Two miles from the White House, 'Black Land News' forwarded a bold vision of political, economic, and cultural autonomy inspired by African decolonization struggles.

• Alex Park

The ultra-conservative American televangelist Pat Robertson has died. As poisonous as his influence on American politics was, Robertson’s legacy in Africa is even more cynical.

• Ayomide Bayowa

Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.

• Marilene Felinto

Who is the black John Kennedy? A Brazilian footballer.

• David Tonghou Ngong

A new Brazilian film shows the role memory plays in African spirituality and dreams of liberation.