• Alexanderia Haidara

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.

• Naila Aroni

Recent celebrity investments in the continent raises the question: Who is it really for?

• Kelechi Anabaraonye

The Fanti Carnival transforms Lagos’s Brazilian Quarters into a vibrant celebration of history, culture, and Afro-Brazilian identity.

• Ana Lucia Araujo

After marking its first federal National Black Consciousness Day, Brazil confronts its deep African heritage and enduring racial inequalities.

• Kim M. Reynolds

While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?

• Maher Mezahi

At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.

• Seun Matiluko

The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.

• Rachel Dubale

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

• David Tonghou Ngong

A new Brazilian film shows the role memory plays in African spirituality and dreams of liberation.

• Unifier Dyer

The film 'Neptune Frost' reduces the gulf between Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism by connecting their shared vision against violent systems of domination.

• Wayne Marshall

Does Afrobeats come from the continent or the diaspora. This reviewer of a new book on the genre's history and rapid takeover of our airwaves and playlists, argues we need to center Africa more.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the second of five articles on Afrobeat music in South America, political scientist Simon Akindes writes about the all women and nonbinary Brazilian band, Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra.

• Ryan Skinner

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

• Steven W. Thomas

The women filmmakers in the Ethiopian diaspora who have taken the risk of dedicating their lives to documenting their homeland.

• Kathryn Mara

A film about young Rwandan-Canadian creates more questions than it answers, particularly about identification, belonging, and memory.

• Sakiru Adebayo

In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

• Bentley Brown

A new film explores the perspectives of Sudanese-American artists navigating their relationships and responsibilities to the revolution back home.

• Robtel Neajai Pailey

The Liberian academic and writer talks about citizenship, belonging, and what unites her fragmented nation.

• Tunde Wey

Reflections from New Orleans, Louisiana—the US's most African city—on the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.