• Sean Henry Jacobs

Under Arsène Wenger, Arsenal FC transformed English football’s relationship to African players, becoming a symbol of diaspora identity, Black internationalism, and global modernity.

• Lina Abushouk

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.

• Matías Vernengo

Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease.

• Thea Riofrancos

From Latin America to Africa, the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy.

• Farrah Elatty

In the United States, Arabs are rendered white or nonwhite depending on the political needs of empire, war, and racial control.

• Silas Nyachwani

From Nairobi to Khartoum, Kampala to Addis Ababa, a new digital magazine maps how the interconnected forces of political repression, class exclusion, and patriarchy are shaping artistic life across Africa.

• Ocean Postman

As the US-Israel war on Iran disrupts fertilizer supply, Africa’s reliance on imported inputs exposes the deeper political economy driving food insecurity.