• Simon Adetona Akindes

In Cuba, new forms of marginalization and racism have surfaced, but the dream of a good society based on the core principles of “buen vivir” for its people has not died.

• Marame Gueye

Maky Madiba Sylla is a militant filmmaker excavating iconic Africans whose legacies he believes need to be known widely—like the singer Laba Sosseh.

• Ryan Skinner

The film "Africa Mia” (2019), directed by Richard Minier and Edouard Salier, explores the musical connections between Cuba and Mali.

• Luna Olavarría Gallegos
• Boima Tucker

A new project from Cuban rapper El Individuo humanizes the Cuban perspective, inadvertently flying in the face of the United States Republican Party's agenda.

• Boima Tucker

How socialist Cuba's foreign policy of solidarity with Africans, midwifed a new genre of music on the island.

• Esteban Morales Dominguez

Cuba achieved more for Afro-Cubans in 50 odd years than in the 400 years before that. However, socialism did not resolve the question of racism on the island.

• Aliyah Blackmore

Thanks in part to the internet, Black women in Cuba are now able to forge space and create visibility for themselves.

• Boima Tucker

A deeper look at the contemporary Cuban Hip Hop scene with Luna Olavarria Gallegos, one of the producers of the Afro Razones project.

• Francisco Perez

Cubans are far better prepared than most for public health and climate emergencies. African countries should emulate the island nation in this regard.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

On 25 November 2016, Fidel Castro passed away. To many Africans Fidel was a hero, playing a central role in their liberation from colonialism.

• Christabelle Peters

Was it ever in doubt that the first African American president of the United States would wish to crown his legacy by normalizing relations with the most African island in the Americas?

• Kwesi Shaddai

The Black American activist's relevance for today's generation following the killing of Mike Brown by police, and the suppression of protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

• Tom Devriendt