• Culture

05.31.2025

Hope after liberation

• Akuol de Mabior

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.

• SPORTS
• Culture

05.30.2025

Sunday service on two wheels

• Kristen L. Miller

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.

• Politics

05.29.2025

What to do about Kenya’s femicide problem?

• Kari Mugo

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.

• Culture

05.27.2025

How to unmake the world

• Noland Oswald Dennis

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.

• Culture

05.26.2025

A migrant’s tale

• Yaw Asare

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.

• Politics

05.23.2025

The global gateway to nowhere

• Alexandra Gerasimcikova
• Paul Okumu

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.

• Politics

05.22.2025

What Portugal forgets

• António Tomás

In the film ‘Tales of Oblivion,’ Dulce Fernandes excavates the buried history of slavery in Portugal, challenging a national mythology built on sea voyages, silence, and selective memory.

• Culture

05.21.2025

Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation

• Milo Gough

Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.

• Politics

05.20.2025

After the digging, who remembers?

• Philile Ntuli

In the aftermath of the Stilfontein mining tragedy, South Africa must confront not just policy failure but a deeper amnesia: the erasure of women, memory, and indigenous ethics from its extractive economy.

• Culture

05.19.2025

Velvet rebellions

• Achille Tenkiang

The oppositional sartorial lens of Congolese sapeurs exposes the limits and frailties of representation work in New York’s Met Gala.

• Politics

05.16.2025

South Africa’s American refugees

• Oliver Layman

Cape Town’s digital nomads chase cheap luxury and scenic backdrops—but behind the matcha lattes and “social impact days” lies a deeper story of economic power, displacement, and global inequality.

• Politics

05.15.2025

The other route to the American dream

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US—via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.

• Politics

05.14.2025

The politics of class from above

• Michaela Collord

In Tanzania and beyond, political elites manage informal workers not by ignoring them—but by shaping their identities, dividing their ranks, and using class to tighten their hold on power.

• Politics

05.13.2025

Green hydrogen, old colonialism

• Saber Ammar

The EU’s hydrogen push in North Africa is sold as climate progress, but beneath the green gloss lies a familiar story of extraction, debt, and dispossession.

• Politics

05.12.2025

Trump tariffs and US Imperialism

• Gillian Hart

Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape—or destroy—American global power.

• Culture

05.09.2025

Cinema against silence

• Fatou Cissé

A new Malian film takes on the tradition of forced marriage with humor, intimacy, and defiance—reimagining African cinema as both tribute and rupture.

• Politics

05.08.2025

The end of US empire is not the end of the world

• Thapelo Tselapedi

As American hegemony unravels, the Global South must resist both nostalgia and passivity. Multipolarity won’t arrive on its own—it must be built through struggle.

• Culture

05.07.2025

Re-writing the rules of Tunisian rap

• Jyhene Kebsi

Blending Tunisian rap with Egyptian mahraganat, Lully Snake defies sexist norms, blurs borders, and opens a new space for feminist rebellion in North African popular culture.

• Politics

05.06.2025

Sanctions as civilizational warfare

• Peiman Salehi

Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare—one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name.

• Politics

05.05.2025

Paul Biya, the last Kaiser

• Shuimo Trust Dohyee

A meditation on the oldest ruler in the world.