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.
Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?
The film adaptation of Percival Everett's novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.
A new film follows the lives of four African students at MIT, where youthful idealism gets tested by the realities of American racism and inequality.
Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.
The struggle of the Palestinian people has become central in the global movement against US imperialism.
Henry Kissinger was convinced that Africans were incapable of responsible government—so he fought against the national liberation movements fighting for independence.