• Achille Tenkiang

Across the continent, music festivals are challenging industry gatekeepers and testing what it means to organize on African terms.

• El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.

• Atiyyah Khan

Jazz bassist Benjamin Jeptha’s latest project interrogates the meaning of Creole identity in South Africa, thirty years after the end of white-minority rule.

• Tsogo Kupa

At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.

• Kikachi Memeh

Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center.

• Priscilla Marques Campos

Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo.

• Nelson Freitas

O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.

• Nelson Freitas

Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.

• Alasdair Howorth

Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest.

• Mariam Ben Slama

To see Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film as condoning the West’s orientalism is to to ignore the agency of the women in it.

• Laura Burocco

The theme for this year’s Venice Biennale, the ‘olympics of the art world’ is ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ But beyond representation, what are the barriers to participation?

• Ron Krabill
• Herman Wasserman

When the the Palestinian Men’s National Team played an exhibition match in Cape Town, South Africa, it might as well have been a home game.

• Zukiswa Wanner

South African writer, publisher and curator Zukiswa Wanner explains why she is surrendering her 2020 Goethe Medaille.

• Alasdair Howorth

The party in Abidjan is one that the whole continent is invited to.

• Makena Maganjo

Kenya is one of Israel’s closest allies in Africa. But the Ruto-led government isn’t alone in silencing pro-Palestinian speech.

• Ezequiel Tedesco

One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

American universities are trying to silence anyone who speaks up against Israel’s occupation and bombardment of Gaza.

• Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing

Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s directorial debut is not only a love story about two star-crossed individuals, but about the whimsical landscapes of the place where they fall in love.

• William Shoki
• Paul Milchick

The horrific violence against civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, are overwhelmingly the product of Israel’s occupation and siege. But we can and must condemn all of it, while steadfastly opposing Israeli apartheid.

• Vishnu Bachani

New films from Mila Turajlić salvages footage from the Yugoslavian news archives to tell a story of non-aligned internationalism against Cold War bipolarity.