• Brahim El Guabli

In Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity.

• Joy Odondi Mala

In Najaax Harun’s paintings, the self confronts its own reflection—haunted, tender, and unafraid to transform.

• Jordache Ellapen

South Africa’s visual culture reveals that its racial categories were never fixed, while the history of indenture complicates the terms of solidarity and exclusion.

• Frank Edong'a

The 2025 Kenyan protests once again declared themselves “tribeless, leaderless, partyless.” But what does the idiom of unity hide?

• Tsogo Kupa

Inspired by a tapestry of Bantu folk stories, the video game 'Tales of Kenzera: Zau' is rich with mythology that many Africans know as our heritage.

• Joaquim Arena

Cabo Verde’s success at the Africa Cup of Nations temporarily suspended the debate on the identity of the island nation's people.

• Joaquim Arena

O sucesso de Cabo Verde no campeonato africano das nações suspendeu temporariamente o debate sobre a identidade do povo.

• Mquzama

What does it mean to be Malawian?

• Faisal Ali
• Jethro Norman

Somalia’s political landscape is increasingly fragmented due to regional and clan differences. Is this the end of the centralized state and a unified, national identity?

• Haythem Guesmi

In the latest controversies about race and ancient Egypt, both the warring ‘North Africans as white’ and ‘black Africans as Afrocentrists’ camps find refuge in the empty-yet-powerful discourse of precolonial excellence.

• Brahim El Guabli

It is burgeoning field that intersects with Arabic, Francophone, Middle Eastern and African studies. But why is Amazigh Studies absent in Anglophone academia?

• Selorm Quist

For many African immigrants in the United States, being seen as Black doesn’t necessarily equate to seeing oneself as Black.

• Shreya Parikh

Tunisia had sought to Arabize itself since independence and failed. It's relation to France still very much defines the country's character.

• Rafael Verbuyst

Khoisan Consciousness is sweeping across South Africa. Exploring multiple perspectives is vital to make sense of it.

• Hisham Aïdi

Morocco’s World Cup heroics are forging a new, dissident Third-World solidarity, reflecting the multifaceted nature of Moroccan identity itself: simultaneously Arab, African, and Amazigh.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

In the third installment on Afrobeat in South America, political scientist Simon A. Akindes writes about Newen Afrobeat from Chile’s capital.

• Leila O. Tayeb

What happens when we take the study of whiteness from settler colonial contexts into the postcolony?

• Siphiwe I. Dube

South African politics remain fertile ground for new orientations: mainly by black conservatives.

• Lindsay Johns

Dennis Brutus described Arthur Nortje as “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.”

• Dami Adebayo

Could the enduring effects of #EndSARS be the beginning of a broad alliance against an irresponsible political elite that has shirked all pretensions of being responsible to the people?