• Silas Nyachwani

From Nairobi to Khartoum, Kampala to Addis Ababa, a new digital magazine maps how the interconnected forces of political repression, class exclusion, and patriarchy are shaping artistic life across Africa.

• Somdeep Sen

In today’s India, stories of terrorism and national humiliation are being reworked into fantasies of decisive power — blurring the line between memory, myth, and politics.

• Warbixinta Cidda

As Somalia makes its first appearance at the Venice Biennale, some Somali artists are questioning who gets to represent the nation — and on whose terms.

• Ocean Postman

As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africa’s reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity.

• Cindy Kasanga

Although increasingly celebrated as an asset, Africa’s youth remain locked out of power and decent work.

• Tajla Vale

Paulo Nazareth's latest show in Berlin follows the cunning architecture of power, from Germany to Brazil and across continents and epochs.

• Eglal Hamid

Often in war, language is twisted and used to change meaning, to dehumanize, to invent enemies, and to justify atrocities.

• Bárbara Rousseaux

In revisiting her relationship with her mother, Roy shows how intimacy, violence, and love forged the sensibility behind her uncompromising political life.

• David Goldblatt

Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world’s most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism.

• Abdullahi Mohamed Boru

The withdrawal from the port city of Berbera by regional powers distracted by war, marks the end of an external system that managed the Horn of Africa — and the beginning of a deeper structural collapse.

• Jwan Zreiq

Israel’s campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran are not discrete crises but interconnected fronts in a broader project of regional dominance.

• Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

Between imperial narratives and state propaganda, debates about the war on Iran often erase the diversity of Iranian society and the voices of its marginalized communities.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

Behind the refereeing drama and rising revenues, AFCON 2025 exposed a tournament increasingly shaped by global capital rather than the long-term health of African football.

• Shreya Parikh

France’s mass deportation orders reveal how colonial logics persist in migration policy, turning former subjects into administrative problems to be expelled.

• Ayodele Ibiyemi

Honored in Yorubaland as “one who repairs the world,” Jesse Jackson’s life bridged civil rights, pan-Africanism, empire, and contradiction — leaving behind a legacy as expansive as it was imperfect.

• Ainehi Edoro

What happens when we stop reading African fiction through European literary history and instead trace its worldmaking through indigenous cosmology?

• Ayisha Osori

By placing Kwame Nkrumah at the center of a global Black political network, Howard W. French reveals how the promise of pan-African emancipation was narrowed — and what its failure still costs Africa and the diaspora.

• Lee Nxumalo

iShowSpeed’s Africa tour is widely celebrated as respectful and refreshing, yet it operates within a long tradition of racialized spectacle that turns Africa into content and Blackness into performance.

• Ibrahim Williams

Can a festival meaningfully applaud African creativity while its sponsor profits from African death?

• Rachel Etter-Phoya

From colonial accounting tricks to modern tax havens, Nkrumah understood how capital escapes, and why political independence was never enough.