• Michael Nassen Smith

South African cricket is currently the subject of TRC-style hearings into the racism and nepotism in the game. It makes for riveting TV, but focuses too much on individual instances of racism and discrimination.

• Matt Robertshaw

In the collective consciousness of global football, Zaire and Haiti—which both qualified for the 1974 World Cup—are remembered for their dismal performance. But is this legacy justified?

• Alex Park

The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?

• Howard French

Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For all the grief Afropunk gets, including its commercialization and appetite for expansion, it still manages to bring people, mostly black, together over two days for a pretty great party.

• Liam Brickhill

Kyle Shepherd’s new music blooms brightly from out of the shadow of pandemic and considers what it means to be South African, African, and human.

• Panashe Chigumadzi

Poet Mongane Wally Serote’s 40-year lament, still haunts Black South Africans: “it is only in our memory that this is our land.” The land haunts our memory, and, in turn, we haunt the land’s memory.

• Nicole Rizzuto

Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels offer a skepticism against the cultural politics of packaging African stories for global circulation and consumption.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature win raises questions about the role of the LitNobel and how they construct what we think of and buy as African literature.

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Wọle Ṣoyinka's new novel examines a country caught in the crosshairs of unimaginable events.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

This #ThrowbackThursday piece from 2007 on Vanity Fair's famous "Africa" issue, makes for fun, at times depressing, reading of the debates we hopefully left behind.

• Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Lagos. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.

• William Shoki

This week on AIAC Talk, we speak with Leswin Laubscher and Derek Hook about the phenomenology of Franz Fanon and the ways he is understood throughout different eras of time.

• Wandia Njoya

Colonial and post-colonial governments in Kenya have worked to separate education from access to culture and information. It is an outdated model.

• Wangui Kimari

The Mathare Social Justice Centre mounts a photography exhibition on police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya’s capital.

• Sara Hanaburgh

In the era of market-driven streaming, what are the pitfalls and potentials for African cinema?

• Nomi Dave

Fashion creates spectacle. What can we learn from the images from Guinea's recent coup d’état?

• Tolulope Itegboje

Filmmaker Tolulope Itegboje humanizes the maligned area boys of Nigeria's commercial capital; presenting them with an opportunity to share their stories.

• Carol Thompson

More than 500 indigenous and farmer organizations across the continents have raised their voices to expose the UN’s Food Systems Summit as only advocating one food system—so they’re being silenced.

• Noah Tsika

King of Boys: The Return of the King, a seven-part limited series of Netflix, is a sustained—if ultimately pessimistic—critique of Nigerian corruption.