• Tsogo Kupa

Inspired by a tapestry of Bantu folk stories, the video game 'Tales of Kenzera: Zau' is rich with mythology that many Africans know as our heritage.

• Oyedele Alokan

Nigerian comedians are getting political.

• Mara Kardas-Nelson

How did microfinance become a craze championed by bleeding-heart progressives to Global South economists, American presidents, and business executives?

• Lee Nxumalo

Select success stories obscure the intentional underdevelopment of women’s football in Africa.

• Cedric Brown

The Olympics, with its provocative patriotism, are the perfect forum for using a broader diasporic focus to push back against hypernationalism.

• Maher Mezahi

Removed from the facts, the firestorm around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest attempt by the right-wing in the West to find fodder for its culture war.

• Fezokuhle Mthonti
• Ayanda Charlie

In South Africa, a popular beauty contest is revealing the specter of ultranationalism and anti-blackness.

• Khanya Mtshali

The theft dispute between Onezwa Mbola and Nara Smith reveals the consumerist undertones behind content for women in the online creative economy.

• Dino Knudsen

In a new film, former UN-Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is portrayed as a defender of a fledgling postcolonial state. But his role in the Congo Crisis is more complicated.

• Chepchirchir Tirop

On the tragic death of 24-year-old marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum.

• Christopher J. Lee

'Funeral for Justice' is a bracing recording that blends the critical sensibility of Frantz Fanon with the melodies of a genre born from an ongoing liberation struggle.

• Maher Mezahi

Beneath the image of togetherness, the world’s biggest athletic spectacle is still beset by discrimination and exclusion.

• Smriti Upadhyay

Siddhartha Deb’s latest book asks readers to consider incarceration as both a metaphor and fact of life in India today.

• Shuimo Trust Dohyee

Amid the turmoil of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, a unique group of individuals has emerged as powerful agents of change.

• Alex White

At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.

• Fiifi Anaman

It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?

• Daniel Okechukwu

Bolanle Austen-Peters' new biopic on Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti often feels too simple and safe.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Nigeria's archives of revolutionary printmaking offers us insights into the dissident voices of the country's old left, which are surprisingly relevant today.

• Khanya Mtshali

A docuseries about the Springbok rugby team invites us to examine the enduring legacy of Rainbowism in South Africa.

• Sharon Tshipa

Since independence, Botswana has relied on its natural resources. But to secure its future, it needs to turn to its cultural heritage too.