• 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.

• Kristen Harding

By centering the African migrant perspective, a new film challenges Western images that cast hundreds of thousands of individuals into the generic role of desperation.

• Maher Mezahi

The CAF Champions League final and the politics of North-African football ultras.

• Palesa Nqambaza

What an amapiano song tells us about post-apartheid South Africa.

• Nelson Freitas

O cantor holandês e cabo-verdiano Nelson Freitas sobre o crescimento e a popularidade da cultura africana em todo o mundo.

• Nelson Freitas

Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Thandi Gamedze

Christian theology was appropriated to play an integral role in the justifying apartheid’s racist ideology. Black theologians resisted through a theology of the oppressed.