• Jordache Ellapen

South Africa’s visual culture reveals that its racial categories were never fixed, while the history of indenture complicates the terms of solidarity and exclusion.

• Cedric Brown

The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.

• Fezokuhle Mthonti
• Ayanda Charlie

In South Africa, a popular beauty contest is revealing the specter of ultranationalism and anti-blackness.

• Omnia Mustafa
• Ghaida Hamdun

The indifference towards Sudan's suffering can be traced to a disturbing pattern deeply rooted in antiblackness.

• Sobukwe Shukura

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

• Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.

• Mpho Ndaba

South African jazz drummer Tumi Mogorosi’s latest project is a call to black people to share the questions that render our condition one of deep ache.

• Kabengele Munanga

A scholar of Black Brazil discusses the past, present, and future of the antiracist movement, in the run up to this year's presidential elections.

• Chris Vasantkumar

Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.

• Haythem Guesmi

Racism against its black citizens permeates the social, institutional, and political strata of Tunisia.

• Aurore Iradukunda

"White person!," people passing by shout, smiling and waving at me. I am black. I am African. I am Rwandan."

• Boima Tucker

• Zachary Rosen

An interview with Nigerian-American artist, Toyin Odutola.

• Clarissa Cummings

The pianist, Kyle Shepherd, loathes labels, especially of him as the architect or savior of Cape Jazz, the music associated with Cape Town.

• Boima Tucker

What are the cultural implications of the success of individual African artists in particularly U.S. mainstream media and award shows?