• Azhar Sholgami

As catastrophe unfolds in Sudan, most of the world continues to turn a blind eye.

• William Shoki

On our year-end publishing break, we consider: what is the work and role of little magazines like our own?

• Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

The little-known history of Iranian cinema uncovers its overlooked history of slavery and anti-blackness.

• Vincent Bevins

The last decade saw the most protests in human history. But how is it that so many uprisings led to the opposite of what they asked for?

• Job Tapera

From the enormously influential megachurches of Walter Magaya and Emmanuel Makandiwa to smaller ‘startups,’ the church in Zimbabwe has frightening, nearly despotic authority.

• Horace Campbell
• Mahder Serekberhan

Since 2019’s revolution, the Sudanese elite and its international backers suppressed popular democratic energies. Although military in-fighting rages on, the accumulated experiences over the past three years has ensured that the resistance cannot be easily broken.

• Nargol Aran

As Iran withstands one of its greatest existential challenges, its men's national team would be forced to carry the weight of a nation’s despair on the field.

• Mona Hakimi

It’s not common knowledge that there is Iran in Africa and there is Africa in Iran. But there are commonplace signs of this connection.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Where do African countries fall in the threatened invasion of Ukraine by Russia? Will African states side with the US or their European allies or with Russia?

• Mohammad Shabangu

A Black South African academic in the United States on breaking the silence on Israeli apartheid in US classrooms and on campuses.

• Michela Wrong

In this interview with Rasna Warah, journalist Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid.

• Rasna Warah

Women say it is their turn to lead the United Nations. But can a female head of the UN change the organization’s work culture and correct the power imbalances among UN member states?

• Alfred Tembo
• Jochen Lingelbach

While World War II was ravaging Europe, thousands of Polish people found a safe haven in British colonial Africa.

• John Reynolds

For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Lessons on radical politics from a 1970s political-cultural icon. Rawlings also dominated and shaped Ghanaian politics through the 1980s and 1990s.

• Hamza Hamouchene
• Selma Oumari

COVID-19 has been a blessing to the ruling classes in Algeria. However, the popular Hirak movement has not said its last word yet.

• Hisham Aïdi

Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter.

• Alex Park

In his new book of his time in the Trump White House, former US National Security Adviser John Bolton shares Trump’s very few thoughts on Africa.

• Yotam Gidron

A new book explores the rationale of Israel’s efforts to expand its influence on the African continent.

• James M. Dorsey

Algeria reached the African Cup final for the first time in 29 years after defeating Nigeria. It can't be divorced from politics back home.