Brazil is an African country
After marking its first federal National Black Consciousness Day, Brazil confronts its deep African heritage and enduring racial inequalities.
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O Brasil é um país africano
Após marcar seu primeiro Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra como feriado federal, o Brasil reafirma sua profunda herança africana e as persistentes desigualdades raciais.
Americans, after all
End of the year reflections on the United States of America, from the Global South.
Hopium kills but hope seeds
Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory.
When you get under Antony Blinken’s skin
On the deplatforming of 'African Stream.'
Between Harlem and home
African postcolonial cinema serves as a mirror, revealing the limits of escape—whether through migration or personal defiance—and exposing the tensions between dreams and reality.
Between blackout and embargo
In Cuba, new forms of marginalization and racism have surfaced, but the dream of a good society based on the core principles of “buen vivir” for its people has not died.
João Lourenço, seria um fantoche americano?
A aproximação do presidente angolano com as nações ocidentais não ocorre no vácuo, nem deveria ser surpreendente.
João Lourenço’s American pivot
The Angolan president’s overture to the West isn't happening in a vacuum, nor should it be surprising.
Writers for a new world
The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book shows us that no matter a writer's individual acclaim, the liberal media establishment will never tolerate anything that fundamentally challenges its racist edifice.
The mine dumps of Silicon Valley
While it might be cathartic to compare Elon Musk’s tech firms to apartheid-era mines, the connection between ex-South Africans and American capitalism is complicated.
Warring with impunity
Without an immediate halt to US arms to Israel, it’s hard to see why Israel should stop slaughtering civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.
Edson in Accra
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?
I just want the beach
On the island of Fanon’s birth, French colonial violence persists.
Rhetoric is not enough
Although Lula da Silva called Israel’s war against Palestinians a genocide, the Brazilian president is yet to follow that up with concrete action.
Retórica não é suficiente
Embora Lula da Silva tenha chamado a guerra de Israel contra os palestinos de genocídio, o presidente brasileiro deve avançar em ações concretas para enfrentá-lo.
Direct action gets the goods
In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.
Beware of false prophets
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
Writing while black
The film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
Allez Les Grenadières
When Haiti’s national women’s team take to the field for ninety minutes, they allow the Haitian people to dream.