• 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.

• Tsogo Kupa

As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams.

• El Hadji Malick Ndiaye

Senegalese art historian El Hadji Malick Ndiaye on curating one of the two longest-serving biennales on the African continent.

• Atiyyah Khan

Jazz bassist Benjamin Jeptha’s latest project interrogates the meaning of Creole identity in South Africa, thirty years after the end of white-minority rule.

• Maher Mezahi

At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.

• Talitha Pam

Nigerians should reject both a song that conjures colonial memories and a tune that evokes years of military rule.

• Dengiyefa Angalapu

Nigeria’s anthem change comes at a time when citizens need to interrogate Tinubu’s first year in office and ask critical questions about what democracy means to them.

• Chérif Keïta

How a Senegalese trade unionist inspired one of the continent’s greatest filmmakers.

• Tsogo Kupa

At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.

• Seun Matiluko

The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.

• Kikachi Memeh

Nigeria is so much more than its cultural and economic center.

• Khanya Mtshali

In 'Revolutionaries’ House,' Nthikeng Mohlele explores the moral decay within South African politics through a disaffected politician tortured by his personal indiscretions.