The Northern Nigeria repping White Nigerian (isn’t he Lebanese Nigerian?), along with JJC, invites us all to a Hausa-Pidgin speaking world of cross-racial national identity. It’s schticky, but the truth is, the world could use a little more exposure to stuff like this.
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Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.
Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.
From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.
On the eve of the kick off of FIFA’s newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?
The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the independence struggle. They are now available in English.
Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.
After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?
Depois de 50 anos de independência em Moçambique: o quê e como celebrar?
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.
Despite the popularity of the Sahel’s military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.
Africa’s biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.
Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria’s national (and international) culture to the center.
A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.
A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.
In Johannesburg, a new generation of Black cyclists is redefining joy, movement, and solidarity—taking over the streets to ride, to reclaim space, and to reimagine freedom.
A lack of reliable statistics and coherent strategy to address femicide in Kenya, has left a culture of everyday insecurity for women in the country.
In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.
On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.