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I am not cool like Theophelius London. I don’t wear nice, patterned shirts. Solange Knowles* doesn’t want to hang out with me. But sometimes I fly overseas.
* Bonus fact: My 5-year old is cool: Solange is her favorite grown-up singer.
The BJP’s surprise underperformance in India’s general elections is a setback for the global right.
La Côte d’Ivoire peut-elle devenir un havre de paix pour les communautés LGBTQI+ en Afrique de l’Ouest?
Could Côte d’Ivoire one day become a safe haven for LGBTQI+ communities in West Africa?
After losing its parliamentary majority for the first time, the African National Congress is scrambling to form a coalition government. The options are bleak.
At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.
The Nigerian Scam podcast returns to discuss the rise and fall of Nigeria’s anti-corruption movement.
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.
Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center.
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action.
Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo.
Women in Sudan have gone from being state subjects to war spoils.
In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.
The Just Us Under A Tree podcast returns to analyze all the legal drama building up to South Africa’s general election.
In ‘Revolutionaries’ House,’ Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.
By centering the African migrant perspective, a new film challenges Western images that cast hundreds of thousands of individuals into the generic role of desperation.
The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras.
What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.
O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.