Time traveling with Manu Dibango
Manu Dibango has been here for centuries, and he ain’t goin’ away any time soon.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
Bring Back Our History
Everyone but the Chibok girls–subjects of #BringBackOurGirls–and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.
Expropriation without compensation? Ask the British.
On the eve of Zimbabwe’s elections, it’s worth reflecting on the British government’s expropriation of Southern Rhodesia, and the mark that act left on the country 100 years later.
A Black queen in the Seattle Reign
Organized US Soccer is perceived as middle class and white. Seattle, Washington wants to break with that via its professional women’s team.
Back in the USSR
In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, critical annotated edition is out now.
This is Congo
The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.
Thirty years after Cuito Cuanavale
A series of photos documenting the contemporary state of the site of perhaps the most decisive battle in the liberation of Southern Africa.
Pogbacité
Is France’s World Cup championship team a bellwether for France’s political future?
In Langa with Louis Moholo-Moholo
Free jazz drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo comes home to his childhood home in Cape Town, carrying the spirit of his generation.
The Story of Priya Ramrakha
Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.
All you need to know about Ethiopia and Eritrea’s rapprochement
The pace of rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, longtime foes who have been in deadlock for the last 20 years, changes quickly. It is hard to keep up.
Everything ends with a song
The author, French: “When the game is over in Russia, I’ll go play another at the field down the street. I’ll find a song to sing on the way.”
The Respectable French
The 2010 World Cup was tumultuous for France; both an athletic failure and a site of social conflict. The French Football Federation doesn’t want to repeat it.
Karim Benzema vs France
Fascists love Kylian Mbappé and hate Karim Benzema. Between these two lies the problem of romanticizing the French team as an African team.
What Would a World Cup Win for France Mean in the French Caribbean?
A possible French victory hovers like a thin layer of hope that barely veils the simmering anger at France’s neglect of the islands and pessimism about the future.
Nigeria’s World Cup Adventure is Over: Do We Still Love Her?
Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.
The new anti-migrant national consensus
Italian politics has taken a sharp turn to the right. Migrants, especially African ones, bear the brunt of their rhetoric. Its ground zero for a new rightwing politics.
The masters of the improbable
In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil’s World Cup squad.
Ibrahim Usman’s road to Qatar
Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.