Diomaye’s first weeks
The challenge for the new Senegalese government is how to translate promises into policy.
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The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
Taking the Lagos train
The arrival of mass rapid transit in the city offers a new metaphor for Nigeria’s social stratification.
Beware of false prophets
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
Reaching for life
In Sudan, the focus must remain on supporting the Sudanese people’s aspirations for peace, stability, and democratic governance.
An unfinished project
Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.
Mosque diplomacy
In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.
A sojourn in Sharjah
Reflections on the 16th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual March meeting.
Between woman and nation
The government of the youngest president in Senegal’s history already seems to embody retrograde views about women.
Untangling the roots of Empire
The coterie of billionaires and foreign aid agencies intent on transforming African agriculture have mostly upturned people’s lives.
Writing while black
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.
The aesthetics of nostalgia
Looking back at 20 years of research-based practice in Ghana, Jesse Weaver Shipley’s latest exhibition blurs the distinction between political rebels and artists.