
A locally-driven vision of African identity and space
Using Instagram, photographer Fati Abubakar wants to take us beyond Boko Haram in Nigeria's Borno State.

Using Instagram, photographer Fati Abubakar wants to take us beyond Boko Haram in Nigeria's Borno State.

Before Columbus’ arrival, there were already millions of people living in America, who we could say had “discovered it."


The global impact of the exchanges and experiences between China and Africa.


Every month, Hipsters Don't Dance send us their "Top World Carnival Tunes." This is September 2015's chart.

Igiaba Scego is one of the most prominent voices of a new cohort of Black writers in Italy.

The relevance of Mauritius in the flows and exchanges between global superpowers, especially Britain and the United States.

Given this history of Black dispersal and displacement, what might a liberatory mobility look like?


The digitization of oral histories of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and its aftermath.

It will be Moroccans overseas that will give Gnawa music and culture an extra push towards the center of Morocco’s cultural identity.


An interview with Richard Pakleppa, director of 'Paths To Freedom', a film on Namibian liberation.

Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.



Ishtiyaq Shukri writes about his deportation from London’s Heathrow airport in July 2015.
