• 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.

• Danê Jaheem Sosaba

Black Brazilians have to fight official and popular narratives hiding the country's brutal and violent legacy of slavery.

• Sam Broadway

Ghana's government likes to advertise its "Year of Return" to welcome members of the African diaspora back to the country, but the first returnees, Ratafarians, are still fighting for their rights.

• Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Sudanese living abroad are key to the uprising: raising awareness and support for political and social transformation back home.

• Zoé Samudzi

The legacies of colonialism and the African slave trade on religious practices in the African diaspora.

• Wangui Kimari

Is emigrating to Africa an option for Black Brazilians in the time of Jair Bolsonaro's toxic, racist, rightwing regime?

• Noah Tsika

The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.

• Aurore Iradukunda

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