• Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

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.

• Hisham Aïdi

Why did North Africans and Middle Easterners almost overnight go from being comrades-in-struggle to racial intruders in Africa and in African American cities?

• Sean Jacobs

David Samaai was the first black (and coloured) South African to play at Wimbledon in 1949. He was 21 years old. He did so before the Americans, Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe.

• Youlendree Appasamy

Xenophobia and questions of belonging haunt Indian South Africans. What does that mean for solidarity with Black South Africans?

• Michael Nassen Smith

South African cricket is currently the subject of TRC-style hearings into the racism and nepotism in the game. It makes for riveting TV, but focuses too much on individual instances of racism and discrimination.

• Leila O. Tayeb

What happens when we take the study of whiteness from settler colonial contexts into the postcolony?

• Siphiwe I. Dube

South African politics remain fertile ground for new orientations: mainly by black conservatives.

• Chris Vasantkumar

Since Stuart Hall wrote critically about race as an analytical category in the 1980s, naturalized accounts of race are back with a vengeance.

• Ayça Çubukçu

The political philosopher Achille Mbembe’s latest book asks us to emerge from the enclosure of race.

• William Shoki

AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.

• Magnus Godvik Ekeland

Why are South African government policies benefiting black mothers still controversial?

• Boima Tucker

Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.

• Fatima-Ezzahra Bendami

En Tunisie, face au déni persistant de l'identité africaine, la communauté noire ne veut plus attendre.

• Fatima-Ezzahra Bendami

Tunisia’s denial of its African identity persists today. Black Tunisians are fighting to change that.

• Gwen Ansell

The system to pay out royalties to musicians in South Africa says a lot about the racial inequalities in the local industry.

• Kiasha Naidoo

If we stop using terms to describe race at all, we risk undermining our struggle to eliminate racism.

• Lindsay Johns

Dennis Brutus described Arthur Nortje as “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.”

• Liam Brickhill

Trevor Madondo achieved a certain immortality in Zimbabwean cricketing lore precisely for the way in which he confronted cricket’s history as an instrument of empire.

• Vik Sohonie

During the COVID-19 pandemic many people who work online were able to set up shop in lands far away from their pre-pandemic homes. But, for whom is the digital nomad lifestyle?

• Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Hip hop and the Black political mainstream more broadly, continues to have hope in the promises of American capitalism.