Old Nollywood 2.0
Some of Nigeria’s biggest filmmakers now look to YouTube for opportunity instead of cinemas and streamers. But is what looks like a new era really a return to an old one?
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The country they never left
Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football.
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.
The limits of France’s racial memory
The French narrative of the Enlightenment still struggles to contend with the country’s racialized hierarchy in its cultural artifacts.
A certain Israeli psyche
Israel's Interior Minister, Eli Yishai basically says Israel was a white country in a debate about African immigrants and refugees.
How do you write about a flawed film?
The vivid cinematography of "Waithira," a film about Kenya, aside, the author would have preferred more knots to be tied and a little less untethering.
Chop Cassava
Five filmmaking collectives from the African continent that are reinterpreting and reinvigorating notions of collaboration and distribution.
Reading List: Olufemi Terry
What does it mean to imagine a city with no fixed essence, only shifting histories and unstable forms of power?
Armed with October
From Sudan to Toronto, a revolutionary poem echoes across time, showing how people’s movements confront militarism, mining, and imperial order with the enduring force of collective struggle.
Next time you see the Mediterranean
The number of African migrants who have lost their lives in the Mediterranean is a tragedy, shamefully under-analyzed over the past 20 years.
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat
As the commodity super-cycle’s denouement now makes obvious the need for change, at least it is clear to all that Africans are not lying down.