• Olaoluwa Olowu

In Ghana, women boxers continue to pursue the sport despite the economic hardship and institutional inequalities they face in and out of the ring.

• Maher Mezahi

Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.

• Boima Tucker

On this month's Africa Is a Country Radio, we soundtrack traditional martial arts and combat sports across the African continent.

• Jeanne-Marie Jackson

How do white South African writers confront the country's as well as their own pasts?

• Sisonke Msimang

When your Uber driver has never heard of Muhammad Ali you realize you're not his friend and you and he occupy different worlds.

• Zubair Sayed

The author, also named Muhammad, on what having a black hero meant during his childhood in Apartheid South Africa.

• Orlando Reade

Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.