• Farrah Elatty

In the United States, Arabs are rendered white or nonwhite depending on the political needs of empire, war, and racial control.

• Harrison Stetler

Backed by the Trump administration, US mining firms, financiers, and tech investors are mounting an aggressive push into the DRC’s mineral sector, reviving an old imperial logic under the language of strategic competition.

• Nanre Nafziger
• Adam Khalid Muhammad

Why does the anti-Black racism of the US president have defenders in Africa’s largest Black nation?

• A. Kayum Ahmed

A year after ICE detained Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil, pro-Palestinian organizers in the United States are living under the threat of arrest, detention, and deportation.

• Elizabeth Schmidt

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern — one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.

• Omole Ibukun

Nigeria’s insecurity cannot be solved by foreign airstrikes or a failing state, but by rebuilding democratic, community-rooted systems of collective self-defense.

• Faisal Ali

Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling.

• Amatallah Saulawa

As the White House hypes “Christian genocide” and floats military action, northern Nigerians are responding with satire.

• Yusuf Bangura

Trump’s threats of military action against Nigeria are not about Christian genocide, but are about rare earths, China, and the scramble to control Africa’s mineral future.

• Shobana Shankar

Trump’s aid cuts have gutted HIV programs across Nigeria — forcing local women-led groups to rebuild health and dignity from below.

• Jonathan Ort

Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic.

• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Trump’s Congo-Rwanda deal is hailed as diplomatic triumph. But behind the photo ops lies a familiar exchange: African resources for Western power.

• Zaheer Ally

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

• Makena Maganjo

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

• Mebratu Kelecha

Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.

• Gillian Hart

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.

• Thapelo Tselapedi

As American hegemony unravels, the Global South must resist both nostalgia and passivity. Multipolarity won’t arrive on its own — it must be built through struggle.

• Abdoulaye Ndiaye

Trump’s trade war is framed as a battle with China — but its fallout is exposing just how little power African economies have in a rigged global system.

• Elena Sala

Javier Milei rose to power promising freedom — but his government is unleashing economic violence, criminalizing dissent, and testing the limits of Argentina’s democracy.