
Liberal internationalism after USAID
As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together?
As US aid falters, the crisis of liberal internationalism deepens. What comes next when even its strongest institutions can no longer hold the facade together?
A US-backed infrastructure project in the DRC is framed as development, but history suggests it’s just another pipeline for foreign powers to profit from Congo’s riches.
Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.
As students face repression for protesting genocide, universities must decide: will they defend freedom or enforce silence?
The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled—but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.
Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.
This weekend, Chris Brown will perform two sold-out concerts in South Africa. His relationship to the country reveals the twisted dynamic between a black American artist with a track record of violence and a country happy to receive him.
Tyla’s rise as a global pop star highlights the complexities of race, identity, and cultural representation, challenging how Blackness is perceived across the diaspora.
End of the year reflections on the United States of America, from the Global South.
Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory.
On the deplatforming of 'African Stream.'
African postcolonial cinema serves as a mirror, revealing the limits of escape—whether through migration or personal defiance—and exposing the tensions between dreams and reality.
In Cuba, new forms of marginalization and racism have surfaced, but the dream of a good society based on the core principles of “buen vivir” for its people has not died.
The Angolan president’s overture to the West isn't happening in a vacuum, nor should it be surprising.
The debacle around Ta-Nehisi Coates' latest book shows us that no matter a writer's individual acclaim, the liberal media establishment will never tolerate anything that fundamentally challenges its racist edifice.
Hiking as Kenyans in Kenya is pathbreaking, both literally and metaphorically.
Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.
In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.
There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.