At Lagos’s Friends and Neighbours Festival, queer Africans came together to imagine a future beyond resilience, repression, and the constant negotiation of safety.
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Picturing the bandits
A peace deal in Katsina, Nigeria, lets one armed group buy biscuits and plan for Hajj, but not lay down its weapons. Photographer Terna Iwar tells the Nigerian Scam what he saw.
Artificial Intelligence
The extinction pitch
Warnings from researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI that their own products could end humanity distract from the real damage AI is already doing.
The grid inside the grid
Africa’s new AI factories promise digital sovereignty. Their electricity deals may instead create private power islands inside public systems.
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
My mother’s buried story
AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalized from literature, academia, and media — it poses the threat of industrial-scale erasure.
Culture
Reading List: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
What if migrant environments, so often cast as scenes of abjection, border transgression, criminality, and placelessness, are instead repositories of knowledge, craft, and refined domesticity?
TV
From IMF history to astrophysics, Nairobi’s Drunken Lectures turn casual drinkers into an engaged public.
Politics
The radical openness of the popular economy
From traders’ credit circles to self-built water networks, Africa’s urban majority keeps finding ways to thicken city life. Can these popular economies still decouple the future from capital’s calculations, even as they open new frontiers for capture?
The World Cup
Our coverage of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in North America.
