The world isn’t watching
As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.
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Full circle
Dutch and Cape-Verdean singer Nelson Freitas on the growth and popularity of African culture across the world.
How to defeat the right
The results of France's snap election show that there is an alternative to right-wing nihilism and business-as-usual centrism.
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.
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.
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.
Brazil is an African country
After marking its first federal National Black Consciousness Day, Brazil confronts its deep African heritage and enduring racial inequalities.
Feeding fear and prejudice
In South Africa, a spate of food poisoning incidents has ignited another round of xenophobic scaremongering.
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.
A Postmodern Bricolage
What we learn from the film “Concerning Violence,” about Franz Fanon’s writings and ideas
Why I’m not an Afropolitan
The problem with Afropolitism is that the insights on race, modernity and identity appear to be increasingly sidelined in sacrifice to consumerism above all else.
Elon Musk and the hypocrisy of the West
Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.
An Afropean Journey
Johny Pitts could not find a sense of self in his corner of black Britain, so he started to wonder if there was a collective black consciousness on the European continent.
Old Money’s mothership is here to save us all
The musical groups perhaps setting the pace for a new idea of liberation for people of African descent in the Americas.
Africa and the Future
An interview with Achille Mbembe, including on the consequences of global capitalism on the continent.
Pogbacité
Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?
Kemi Badenoch and the politics of assimilation
The UK Tory leader distances herself from Nigeria, embracing colonial narratives while rejecting solidarity with a nation grappling with neocolonial realities.