• Razan Idris

The notion that black people were kings in Ancient Egypt is generating a social media backlash. Understanding the racialized legacy of Egyptology can explain why.

• J.S. Arndt

Why languages, particularly black African languages, have become a battleground in postapartheid power and identity politics in South Africa.

• Hisham Aïdi

Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?

• Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
• Simidele Dosekun

To have—or, at least, claim—a sense of self that is “already empowered” or happily unencumbered by power relations, requires a fair bit of material privilege.

• Sohela Surajpal

Adidas and other private, for-profit companies that are embracing corporate queerness are never going to contribute to our liberation.

• Tsogo Kupa

For this group, politics is often framed as a series of never-ending discussions about social justice: The experience from South Africa.

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Marta Tveit

Comics have power, especially over the young, and perhaps more than we care to acknowledge.

• Ghazouane Arslane

The peaceful nature of the massive protests against Algeria's undemocratic regime signals the universal reclamation of the people's right to perform who they are and who they want to be.

• Sean Jacobs

Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.

• Adam Aboobaker

Postcolonial and intersectional theories, the dominant tendencies in student movements, suffer from an absence of economic analysis.

• Dayo Adeneye

The issues faced by people of dual heritage who are torn between two different cultures and are confused about their identity.

• Sean Jacobs

• Sean Jacobs