• Mejah Mbuya

Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.

• Alexanderia Haidara

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.

• Lee Nxumalo

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.

• Maher Mezahi

On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?

• Priscilla Marques Campos

Os escritos do líder e intelectual revolucionário angolano Mário Pinto de Andrade ajudaram a galvanizar a luta pela independência. Estão agora disponíveis em inglês.

• Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi

The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.

• Fatoumata Bah

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.

• Timothy Edaki

Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national (and international) culture to the center.

• Rosalind Fredericks

A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• António Tomás

Em 'Contos do Esquecimento,' Dulce Fernandes desenterrou histórias esquecidas da escravidão em Portugal, desafiando uma mitologia nacional construída sobre viagens marítimas, silêncio e memória seletiva.

• 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.

• Achille Tenkiang

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

• 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.

• 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.

• M’barek Bouhchichi

What happens when art steps into the gaps left by official history? A conversation on race, memory, and the unfinished work of making meaning.