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Sodade

Meaning is elusive in Cape Verde, but it does result in an existential limbo conducive to creeping, fretful madness.

Olympic medallists Tommie Smith, Peter Norman, and John Carlos stand on the podium after the 200 metres at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Smith and Carlos bow their heads and raise black-gloved fists in protest against racial discrimination.

Continuities in exclusion

The refusal of the US government to admit Somali referee Omar Artan is a reminder that the United States has a long history of using sports as a tool of exclusion, especially when it comes to African and African-descended athletes.

A man wearing light shorts walks hand in hand with two young boys on a sandy beach, facing the ocean waves and distant ships under a bright, cloudy sky, with a small pile of clothes and sandals lying on the sand to the right.

The shadow of the fatherland

Akinola Davies Jr’s feature-length debut traces how Nigeria’s military rule collapsed the boundary between political crisis and intimate life, leaving families to bear the cost of authoritarian power.

Match officials and team staff pose on a football field before a local match in Somalia, with referees in yellow kits standing around a ball at midfield.

The meaning of Omar Artan

The World Cup was meant to be the culmination of Omar Artan’s remarkable rise. His exclusion from it revealed something equally striking: the magnitude of the admiration he had earned at home and globally.

Blood and nation

In today’s India, stories of terrorism and national humiliation are being reworked into fantasies of decisive power — blurring the line between memory, myth, and politics.

Performers play hand drums around a masked figure wearing an elaborate green feathered costume during a crowded cultural procession, as onlookers gather and take photographs outside a building.

Frames of reference

At the 61st Venice Biennale, the late Koyo Kouoh’s decolonial vision shaped a landmark exhibition, even as questions of representation, solidarity, and cultural authority continued to haunt the African pavilions.