When a black viking meets a black slave trader
What do computer generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era?
What do computer generated images tell us about the evolution of coloniality and racialization in the AI era?
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Robert Sobukwe is often understood as a black nationalist. So what should we make of his close friendship with a white liberal?
A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.
The indifference towards Sudan's suffering can be traced to a disturbing pattern deeply rooted in antiblackness.
Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.
Cabo Verde’s success at the Africa Cup of Nations temporarily suspended the debate on the identity of the island nation's people.
O sucesso de Cabo Verde no campeonato africano das nações suspendeu temporariamente o debate sobre a identidade do povo.
The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.
A new film about American civil rights icon Bayard Rustin overlooks his later conservative turn, evident in his attitudes to anticolonial resistance in Africa.
What does Javier Milei’s presidential victory mean for Argentina’s black and indigenous minorities?
One bandleader's quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.
In South Africa, white climate groups are detached from broader struggles for economic justice and equality.
In France, Black and Arab minorities are excluded from the country’s liberal values—and then treated as threats to them.
In their debut EP, the Johannesburg-based experimental jazz group iPhupho L’ka Biko offer a message of hope, resilience and solidarity while drawing from South Africa’s black jazz heritage.
The pathologization of ‘migrants’ in Tunisia and France shows how race and poverty shape our understanding of belonging.
The reaction to Nahel Merzouk’s murder by the French state showcases its tactic of depoliticizing the suburban uprising and diverting attention away from state violence.
The state-sanctioned violence committed against children such as Nahel M forces us to revisit the very question of childhood, its privileges, and its roots in the French imperialization of Africa.
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.
Who is the black John Kennedy? A Brazilian footballer.