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Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.
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Sinners and ancestors
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.
The verdict against womanhood
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.
It’s Gianni’s world (cup)…
On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?
Firearms aren’t the only weapons
The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the independence struggle. They are now available in English.
As armas não só de fogo
Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.
Mozambique’s mid-life crisis
After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?
Moçambique em crise de meia idade
Depois de 50 anos de independência em Moçambique: o quê e como celebrar?
Return the gods
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
The end of AGOA
A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.
Goïta, gift to the insurgents
Despite the popularity of the Sahel's military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.
Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology
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.