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This morning, Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora passed away in Mandelo, São Vicente, the island were she was born. One of the many meanings of “Sodade” — that most difficult to translate Creole word — is a feeling of loss.
Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.
‘Funeral for Justice’ is a bracing recording that blends the critical sensibility of Frantz Fanon with the melodies of a genre born from an ongoing liberation struggle.
Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.
Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.
Amid the turmoil of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, a unique group of individuals has emerged as powerful agents of change.
As he loses his grip on power, Kenya’s president is losing the plot.
At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.
Days before mass protests broke out across Kenya, the national government enacted a mass, unjustified forced removal campaign across Nairobi.
It’s no longer just about the finance bill. Kenyans want fundamental change.
It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?
Bolanle Austen-Peters’ new biopic on Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti often feels too simple and safe.
Nigeria’s archives of revolutionary printmaking offers us insights into the dissident voices of the country’s old left, which are surprisingly relevant today.
The results of France’s snap election show that there is an alternative to right-wing nihilism and business-as-usual centrism.
What does it benefit a man to gain a finance bill but lose his country?
A docuseries about the Springbok rugby team invites us to examine the enduring legacy of Rainbowism in South Africa.
Since independence, Botswana has relied on its natural resources. But to secure its future, it needs to turn to its cultural heritage too.
As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams.
In France, the nationalist right wing is ascendant. This week on the AIAC podcast, we discuss the country’s upcoming legislative elections.
Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.
For some years now, the people of Eastlands in Nairobi have been remaking the city in their own image of green development.