• 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.

• Brant Roberts

In 1985, black students at the University of Houston led a campaign for divestment from apartheid South Africa.

• Judith Van Allen

There is a particular historical pattern of colonial settler genocide that links Africa to Palestine.

• Boima Tucker

Is the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake really devoid of politics?

• Londiwe Gamedze

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.

• Arthur Musah

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.

• Sobukwe Shukura

Kenya’s plan to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti undermine's the country's fragile sovereignty.