• Nabil Ferdaoussi

When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial history behind it.

• Eoghan Gilmartin

Backed by Moroccan state subsidies, Christopher Nolan’s decision to film The Odyssey in occupied Western Sahara is the latest and highest-profile chapter in a five-decade campaign to normalize colonial rule.

• Aomar Boum
• Brahim El Guabli

When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.

• Maher Mezahi

The 2025 AFCON final between Senegal and Morocco was a dramatic spectacle that tested the limits of the match and the crowd, until a defining moment held everything together.

• Maher Mezahi

From national redemption and continental dominance to personal legacy and political ambition, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final means everything to Africans.

• Harlem Lamine

Why focusing on attendance figures at the 2025 AFCON is the wrong way to measure the tournament.

• Maher Mezahi

Does the development of African football necessitate a trade off in vibes at continental tournaments?

• Brahim El Guabli

In Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity.

• Maher Mezahi

An African Cup of Nations at home for red hot Morocco is a chance to put past trauma aside and charge on to the world stage.

• Zahra Rahmouni

At the UN’s annual Western Sahara debate, everyone gets heard except the Sahrawis themselves.

• Omar Kabbadj

As Morocco prepares to host AFCON and the 2030 World Cup, a decentralized youth movement is demanding real investment in public services over sporting spectacle.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

Emmanuel Macron’s recognition of Morocco’s claim to Western Sahara is a calculated pivot in a decades-old plan to reassert French influence across the Sahel.

• M’barek Bouhchichi

What happens when art steps into the gaps left by official history? A conversation on race, memory, and the unfinished work of making meaning.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

The conflict over Western Sahara is just one layer of the deep-rooted geopolitical battle for regional leadership between Morocco and Algeria.

• Zahra Rahmouni

In North Africa, religion is being used to spread political and cultural influence.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

Morocco is one of the United States’ oldest allies, so when it occupied Western Sahara in 1975, the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people mattered little.

• Chems Eddoha Boraki

African women en route to Europe often land up stuck in Morocco, taking on precarious work as hairdressers and beauticians.

• Imane El Fakkaoui

For African women passing through Morocco en route to Europe, begging on the streets becomes a way to support themselves, but also reinforces humiliation and shame.

• Charlotte Morlie

The reality of any society, any nation, and of our world, is much messier than picking a soccer team.

• Dawson McCall

The positive reactions of Africans to Morocco’s performance at the World Cup are not outliers. Sport has often challenged outsiders' view of Africa's regions as disparate and disconnected.