What happens to football dreams when they die
For the Star Boys, a West-African performance collective based in Antwerp, Belgium, the dream of playing professional football in Europe found its revival in theatre.
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The Gambia Gambit
There is a long-standing Norwegian tradition of externalizing racism, so that anti-black racism is always and inevitably located elsewhere.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Mothers and mothering
Director Alice Diop’s 'Saint Omer' is preoccupied with what binds women together, the traumas that are inherited, shared and possibly overcome.
The Africanness of North Africa
As xenophobic attacks and anti-black rhetoric ramp up in North Africa, it is useful to highlight (or remember) the fluid, intertwined histories of the Saharan region.
Equatorial Guinea’s ‘American Dirt’
A novel and Netflix film about Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea raises questions about appropriation and storytelling.
Border politics
Right-wing populists in South Africa have started copying their American counterparts by calling for a border wall.
Xenophobia and party politics in South Africa
All political parties in South Africa try to mobilize voters based on their and voters' xenophobia and they're outdoing each other with an election scheduled for 2019.
Two trips to Juba
Youth activism and the politics of violence in South Sudan.
Trump tariffs and US Imperialism
Trump’s April 2025 tariff blitz ignited market chaos and deepened rifts within his own coalition. Beneath the turmoil lies a battle between technocrats, ultranationalists, and anti-imperial populists, all vying to reshape — or destroy — American global power.
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.
Davido’s jacket
Davido’s appearance at 'Amapiano’s biggest concert' turned a night of celebration into a study in Afrophobia, fandom, and the fragile borders of South African cultural nationalism.
What is home?
For immigrants — especially African and black immigrants to Western countries — the question of home is complex.
Have a Nice Trip
How does it feel to be an African asylum seeker in Europe.
Waiting to be local
The writer, in graduate school in Britain, writes about the various roadblocks in the way of Africans, in his case Ugandans, to travel to Europe.
A ditch to climb
In South Africa, the political class use foreign nationals as scapegoats to obfuscate their role in reproducing inequality. But immigrants are part of the excluded.
Two Men, Two Countries
Who are the real victims of crime and violence in South Africa?
United by football?
At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.
Under Nelson Mandela Blvd, Part Four
A Story About Cape Town’s Tanzanian Stowaways — Summer 2012.