How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.
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Moral clarity is not enough
Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease.
Tanzania’s national sound?
What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it?
How to build a just green future
From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.
Who is an Arab?
In the United States, Arabs are rendered white or nonwhite depending on the political needs of empire, war, and racial control.
Now what?
What’s in store for the Congolese national team, now that they’ve reached the World Cup?
The price of survival
South Africa’s municipalities are collapsing under a neoliberal model that treats water, electricity, and sanitation as commodities to be sold rather than rights to be guaranteed.
Art under siege
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.
An unexpected footballing kinship
If the reception the Democratic Republic of the Congo received at the FIFA intercontinental playoffs is anything to go by, visiting African fans can expect a joyful camaraderie in Mexico.
Blood and nation
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.
The inner life of a revolutionary
Drawing on letters to his wives, a decade-long film project seeks to move beyond iconography and return Amílcar Cabral to the realm of the human, the fragile, and the unfinished.
On the Somalia Pavilion
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.