Hope after liberation
A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.
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Sinners and ancestors
Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable — it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.
Return the gods
The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.
The Queering Slavery Working Group
This tumblr focuses on reading, researching, and writing histories of intimacy, sex, and sexuality during Atlantic slave period.
The most interesting bits
Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
When Rex Tillerson toured some of Africa’s “shithole” countries
Right before he was fired, outgoing US Secretary of State visited six African countries. Here's why.
Sex, beer, and ndombolo
A Congolese writer whose work oscillates between gripping dystopia and humanist celebration.
Red and Black
Yunxiang Gao’s new book takes a fresh look at connected lives of African American and Chinese leftist activists, artists and intellectuals after World War II.
A question of color
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's novel "The Theory of Flight" may be the first to take seriously Zimbabwe’s complicated race politics, beyond the obvious black vs whites.
James Barnor, ever young
Riason Naidoo talks to the curator and editor of a book and traveling exhibition about the work of the legendary, 90 year-old Ghanaian photographer.
Boogie Down Nima in the Bronx
Recognition of the contributions to the New York cultural landscape by African immigrants remains strangely absent from the average New Yorker’s frame of reference.
To think through and beyond the nation-state
A conversation on books, borders, and belonging with Somali-American writer, Abdul Adan.
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.
Saturday mornings
Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city's working class African immigrants.
#OccupyNigeria
Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.
Beyond independence
The post-colonial settlement has left Africa vulnerable to conflict, external pressure, and intellectual dependency. What comes next?
The Afropolitan Must Go
Is it a good idea to separate African urbanites from the rest of their cohort? How is that even constructive, wonders the writer of Norwegian and Tanzanian descent.
Transnational African feminisms
What roles have francophone African women played in movements for pan-African liberation, historically and now?