• Michael Ugarte

A novel and Netflix film about Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea raises questions about appropriation and storytelling.

• Vishnu Bachani

A new documentary about Equatorial Guinea and the exiled writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel provides an honest, critical examination of the country's political, social, and cultural issues.

• Duane Jethro

A post-colonial visual meditation on archive, memory, and colonial violence.

• Joseph Mangarella

How does the world's longest serving autocrat remain in power?

• Dan Magaziner

Dan Magaziner gets to shake the hand of Paul Kagame, a man many consider a dictator at best and a war criminal at worst.

• Boima Tucker

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.

• Shireen Ahmed

Football officials are supposed to be advocates for the beautiful game and for footballers - irrespective of gender.  But the treatment of female players with regard to gender testing is deplorable.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The decision by Spain's national football team to go play a football friendly in its former colony, Equatorial Guinea, has spotlighted how the latter country is run.

• Pablo Mediavilla Costa

Eqatorial Guinea in West Africa was a Spanish colony. Few Spanish football fans know where it is or how the rulers continue the violent politics inherited from Spain.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How much of Equatorial Guinean's tax money did the Obiangs pay to the Spanish FA for a meaningless match between its national teams?

• Elliot Ross

Both Africa's infamous pastors as well as our staff predicted Zambia would win the African Cup of Nations Final. We're not sure who had the closer relationship to the gods.

• Elliot Ross

The fortunes of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea at AFCON 2012. The latter especially, a squad cobbled together by naturalizing players from Brazil and Spain.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Elliot Ross

• Tom Devriendt

Equatoguineans may not have much to celebrate on independence day: They've been free from colonialism since 1968, but the current ruler has been in power since 1979.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Equatorial Guinea's longtime head of state, Teodoro Obiang, wants to buy legitimacy internationally. Will he succeed?