• 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?

• Bentley Brown

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

• William Shoki

When our political parties only have recourse to the realm of identity and culture, it is a smokescreen for their lack of political legitimacy and programmatic content. It is cynically unpolitical, and it’s all bullshit.

• Zachariah Mampilly

Kamala Harris should be critiqued or celebrated not according to a faulty and disingenuous understanding of her lineage, but on the basis of her actual policy positions and future governing vision.

• Debbie Onuoha

A new film by Aiwan Obinyan explores the origins and "ownership" of a now-famous cloth.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.