Fear of a Black France
You want to troll French fascists? Tell them the truth: the most French man in the world right now is a black kid called Kylian Mbappé.
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The hubris of western science
The tendency of science and research in the Western world to treat issues in isolation, as if one part has no relationship to larger webs of complex interconnection.
The collapse of oil for insecurity
Why Venezuela’s turmoil and the Khashoggi crisis portend an even darker geopolitics of oil.
Longing for freedom in Morocco
A discussion with Nabil Ayouch, the French-Moroccan filmmaker, who captures the struggle for outsiders who exist in an oppressive society.
Yes We Can—Football and Nationalism
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt and football’s peculiar hold on national identity.
On safari
We are not just marking the end of 2019, but also the end of a momentous, if frustrating decade for building a more humane, caring future for Africans.
Talking back: African feminisms in dialogue
How young, African feminist scholars are using their life experiences as sources and resources for theorizing their feminism.
What is whiteness in North Africa?
What happens when we take the study of whiteness from settler colonial contexts into the postcolony?
Mo Ibrahim does not have all the answers
The Mo Ibrahim Prize rewards African presidents for promoting democracy. But there's no proof the prize has had any effect or that it is needed.
A man of the people
Robert Vinson's biography of Albert Luthuli hints at how liberation histories might be reframed to better address the problems of the present.
The art of football
Why should people be invested in a football game in a bubble called the art world? “Exhibition Match,” a multifaceted installation, explores responses to this question.
Hope and optimism howled at full volume
A people’s history of Zimbabwe’s first mbira punk band, Chikwata 263, who wanted a soundtrack for the country’s post-post colonial blues.
Mandela’s Black Marxism
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
Tariffs, Trump, and the Global South
Trump’s trade war is framed as a battle with China—but its fallout is exposing just how little power African economies have in a rigged global system.
How to unmake the world
In this wide-ranging conversation, para-disciplinary artist Nolan Oswald Dennis reflects on space, time, Blackness, and the limits of Western knowledge—offering a strategy for imagining grounded in African and anti-colonial traditions.
Repoliticizing a generation
Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and a 21st-century anti-imperialist front.
We must learn to sit in the dark together
At our first workshop from our festival in Nairobi, The Elephant’s Joe Kobuthi, reflected on a year since #EndFinanceBill.