Fictions of freedom
K. Sello Duiker’s 'The Quiet Violence of Dreams' still haunts Cape Town, a city whose beauty masks its brutal exclusions. Two decades later, in the shadow of Amazon’s new development, its truths are more urgent than ever.
Culture
When things fall apart
Against a backdrop of global collapse, one exhibition used Chinua Achebe’s classic to hold space for voices from the Global South—and asked who gets to imagine the future.
Enemies of progress
Delayed, underfunded, and undermined, this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations has exposed not just neglect but active sabotage from CAF and national federations.
Matchday 2: The Battle of Omdurman
A new season of the African Five-a-side podcast asks, “what is the greatest match in the history of men's African football?”
Whose game is remembered?
The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.
The sound of black identity
A landmark documentary uncovers the radical soul scene that electrified 1970s Rio, inspired Black consciousness, and terrified Brazil’s military dictatorship.
No ritmo da identidade black
Um documentário marcante revela a cena soul radical que eletrificou o Rio dos anos 1970, inspirou a consciência negra e aterrorizou a ditadura militar brasileira.
Struggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge Albie Sachs is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger project of legacy-making.
A barren sowing
Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.
Critical mass
Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.
Sinners and ancestors
Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.
The verdict against womanhood
From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.
It’s Gianni’s world (cup)…
On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?
Firearms aren’t the only weapons
The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the independence struggle. They are now available in English.
As armas não só de fogo
Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.
Return the gods
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology
Africa's biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
The resurgence of Benin sound
Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national (and international) culture to the center.
Fighting for the waste commons
A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.
Hope after liberation
A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.