• Lyn Kouadio

This year’s AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire showed that it’s not just the politics of the football that matters, but the politics of the vibe as well.

• Arthur Musah

A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.

• AfroWave

Africa Is a Country is partnering with AfroWave Echoes to present their quarterly playlist of African music.

• Robyn d'Avignon

If savanna West Africa is a new corporate mining frontier in the 21st century, it's because it is also home to the world’s longest-standing indigenous gold mining economy.

• Bonginkosi Ndadane

If South Africa’s Premier Soccer league matters, it is because it’s the country’s most successful pan-Africanist project.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

For Nigeria to return to the peak of African football, it needs deeper introspection about how the country functions today.

• Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Tadiwa Madenga’s latest book offers us a biographical portrait of Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera written through her love of plants, gardens and nature.

• Alasdair Howorth

Just two weeks on from Les Elephants greatest ever triumph, the Ivorian women’s national team is at its lowest point.

• Fouad Mami

A new book argues for the centrality of Congolese elites and regional powers in perpetuating domestic conflict, but it too easily lets the West off the hook.

• Sakhile Phiri
• Savo Heleta

Burna Boy’s ‘Monsters You Made’ takes the debate about the need for material decolonization outside the ivory tower and into the public sphere.

• Omole Ibukun

BBC’s new documentary about T.B. Joshua’s human rights abuses has stirred debate about the British broadcaster’s intentions.

• Joaquim Arena

Cabo Verde’s success at the Africa Cup of Nations temporarily suspended the debate on the identity of the island nation's people.

• Joaquim Arena

O sucesso de Cabo Verde no campeonato africano das nações suspendeu temporariamente o debate sobre a identidade do povo.

• Mquzama

What does it mean to be Malawian?

• William Shoki

Between the Grammys and AFCON semi-final, it's been a big week for the rivalry between Nigeria and South Africa.

• Maher Mezahi

Palestine solidarity was widespread at the 2023 AFCON in Côte d'Ivoire, but the tournament's security apparatus quietly suppressed it.

• Njuki Githethwa

Recognizing and appreciating creative writers in Kiswahili de-centers the use of imperial and borrowed languages in African literatures.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

Nigeria’s Men's football team does best when no one expects them to.

• Alasdair Howorth

'Les Éléphants' quarterfinal match against Mali is happening in Cote d’Ivoire’s second largest city. Can the place once ravaged by war be a site of national redemption once again?

• Uroš Kovač

African football is often maligned as steeped in superstition. But rather than endemic to the continent, debates about football 'sorcery' reflect global dynamics.