The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
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The sound of identity
The producer of a BBC podcast on West African identity in Britain discusses her experience making, and the impetus for creating the series.
Pink socialism
Socialist solidarity in postcolonial Angola and Mozambique rendered queer people invisible. Revisiting this erasure helps us imagine liberation anew.
Not only kafala
Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.
More French than Algerian
This week, Kamel Daoud became the first Algerian to receive France’s most prestigious literary honor. Yet, in Algeria, no one seems to care.
How Rashid Vally showed us the way
Rashid Vally, the visionary behind South Africa’s iconic jazz label As-Shams, forged a legacy of revolutionary jazz that defied apartheid and continues to inspire new generations of musicians, activists, and music lovers.
Mining, murder, and the machinery of exploitation
The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession.
The wrong way to end aid
The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled — but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.
Jacob Zuma’s enduring relevance
The former president’s abiding presence in South African politics reveals the undercurrent of cultural populism and what can happen when local beliefs cut against the grain of liberal democracy.
The global gateway to nowhere
Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership — but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.
Imperial belonging and the weaponization of the sea
The legacy of France’s colonial violence in the Indian Ocean is one stone that contemporary mainstream media tends to leave unturned.
Art is a place for rehearsal
What happens when art steps into the gaps left by official history? A conversation on race, memory, and the unfinished work of making meaning.
Sanctions as civilizational warfare
Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare — one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name.
South African journalists have a choice to make
Across South African radio and television, anti-immigration framing has become the norm.
Africa’s last neoliberals
As the pink tide swept through Latin America, Africa’s neoliberal regimes held firm. Where is Africa’s rupture — and what explains the absence of a sustained left challenge?
Afrophobic metamorphosis
Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted — it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.
From Cape To Cairo
When two Africans — one from the south, the other from the north — set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?
A barren sowing
Donato Ndongo’s latest collection of short stories portrays African exile and diaspora in Spain and France.
Djinns in Berlin
At the 13th Berlin Biennale, works from Zambia and beyond summon unseen forces to ask whether solidarity can withstand the gaze of surveillance.
The climate finance crisis
As Mozambique faces escalating climate disasters, it is shut out of the very funds meant to protect it.