Where do just ideas come from
Exploring Senegal’s early post-colonial history, to make sense of the unhappiness with the government of incumbent president Macky Sall.
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Who gets to define borders?
What will the renewed land debate in South Africa mean for the border woes of neighbors such as Lesotho?
Imagining the South African Indian
How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?
Brazil is Haiti’s national football team
Most national teams have 12 starting players — 11 on the field, and their fans in the stands. Brazil’s has a 13th player: Haitains.
Equatorial Guinea’s ‘American Dirt’
A novel and Netflix film about Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea raises questions about appropriation and storytelling.
#TousEnsemble
The success of Belgium's national football team as a key site for political struggles over identity, race and immigration.
Everything ends with a song
The author, French: "When the game is over in Russia, I’ll go play another at the field down the street. I’ll find a song to sing on the way."
The Redemption Trope in South African Cinema
The politics of three prominent South African films: the classics 'Come Back Africa,' late-1980s 'Mapantsula' and Oscar winner 'Tsotsi.'
This is Congo
The state of politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and those working to build a new future there.
Africa and World War I
The story of Africans' involvement in World War I is largely unheard of outside of academia.
Mutual Entanglements
The complex, and at times strained, relations between African-Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
The Sheck Wes story
Harlem rapper Sheck Wes's star rises in the shadow of Dapper Dan and Cheikh Amadou Bamba.
Intimacy in Africa, on film
Bringing attention to African filmmakers who challenge prevalent cinematic depictions of the continent.
The silences about capitalism in Africa
Many African countries are by now capitalist societies and analytically need to be treated as such when we talk about or study them.
Buying back our things
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.