• 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.

• Margot Tudor

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?

• Dean Clay

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.

• William Shoki

Musk’s outrage over land reform in South Africa isn’t about fairness—it’s about fueling right-wing paranoia and preserving economic privilege.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

As students face repression for protesting genocide, universities must decide: will they defend freedom or enforce silence?

• Kathryn Mathers

The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled—but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.

• Steven Friedman

Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.

• Khanya Mtshali

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.

• Tshiamo Ramela

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.

• Fikri Haikal Panggabean

End of the year reflections on the United States of America, from the Global South.

• Dan Magaziner

Reflections on Trump’s 2024 US presidential victory.

• Ahmed Kaballo

On the deplatforming of 'African Stream.'

• Fatoumata Bah

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.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

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.

• Cláudio Silva

The Angolan president’s overture to the West isn't happening in a vacuum, nor should it be surprising.

• Fezokuhle Mthonti

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.

• Elizabeth Cooper
• Gitonga Wandai

Hiking as Kenyans in Kenya is pathbreaking, both literally and metaphorically.

• Elizabeth Schmidt

Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?

• Tsogo Kupa

At the 31st New York African Film Festival, young filmmakers set the stage with adventurous and varied experiments in African cinema.