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An island nation, everywhere
When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home. Children playing...
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Hospitals versus stadiums
As Morocco prepares to host AFCON and the 2030 World Cup, a decentralized youth movement is demanding real investment in public services over sporting spectacle. People take part in a youth led protest...
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Leapfrogging literacy?
In outsourcing the act of writing to machines trained on Western language and thought, we risk reinforcing the very hierarchies that decolonization sought to undo. Photo by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on...
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Framing otherness
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse. Still from On Becoming a Guinea Fowl© 2024. Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore...
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We must learn to sit in the dark together
At our first workshop from our festival in Nairobi, The Elephant’s Joe Kobuthi, reflected on a year since #EndFinanceBill. Image credit Onesmus Karanja for Africa Is a Country. In June 2025, Africa Is...
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Entries, exits, permits
A reflection on traveling through the globalized walled city. Las Vegas. Image credit Bert Kaufmann via Flickr. Doha had an eerie unnaturalness to it. Like existing in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. I had...
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Zoë Wicomb’s local universalisms
The passing of the pioneering South African writer and critic leaves behind a body of work that challenged racial mythologies, unsettled identity politics, and grounded transhistorical vision in the...
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Reading List: Brooks Marmon
The writings of Edson Sithole, Zimbabwe’s forgotten nationalist thinker, reveal both the promise and perils of pan-African politics in the independence era. Jameson Ave. (now Samora Machel Ave.) in...
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Repoliticizing a generation
Thirty-eight years after Thomas Sankara’s assassination, the struggle for justice and self-determination endures—from stalled archives and unfulfilled verdicts to new calls for pan-African renewal and...
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The king of Kinshasa
Across five decades, Chéri Samba has chronicled the politics and poetry of everyday Congolese life, insisting that art belongs to the people who live it. Hommage aux anciens créateurs, 2000. (A tribute...
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Drip is temporary
The apparel brand Drip was meant to prove that South Africa’s townships could inspire global style. Instead, it revealed how easily black success stories are consumed and undone by the contradictions...
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Making space for the ordinary
MADEYOULOOK’s 'Dinokana' debuted at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Now back home, Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho reflect on sound, place, and why their work is always meant for South African audiences...
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Cameroon’s last election
The outcome of the October 12 elections may make or break the resource-rich Central African nation. Yaounde, Cameroon, 2022. Image © Noyan Yalcin via Shutterstock. In July 2025, President Paul Biya...
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Armed with October
From Sudan to Toronto, a revolutionary poem echoes across time, showing how people’s movements confront militarism, mining, and imperial order with the enduring force of collective struggle. The first...
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Rethinking the boundaries of blackness
South Africa’s visual culture reveals that its racial categories were never fixed, while the history of indenture complicates the terms of solidarity and exclusion. Jordache Ellapen. Image via...
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Reading List: Olufemi Terry
What does it mean to imagine a city with no fixed essence, only shifting histories and unstable forms of power? Photo by Pieter van Noorden on UnsplashMy novel, Wilderness of Mirrors, follows Emil, a...
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Energy for whom?
Behind the fanfare of the Africa Climate Summit, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline shows how neocolonial extraction still drives Africa’s energy future. Lake Albert, Uganda. A site for prospective...
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When the victim isn’t perfect
Rungano Nyoni’s latest film challenges audiences to confront the collective complicity that sustains abuse. Still from On Becoming a Guinea Fowl© 2024. Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s sophomore...
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The mourning of a man, the mirror of a nation
Charlie Kirk was not a household name in South Africa. Yet, as evidenced by the local outpouring of grief that followed his death, South Africans must confront the truth: his ideas were already at...
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Who pays for Africa’s food future?
A new movement is challenging the financial stranglehold of agribusiness and foreign lenders, arguing that Africa’s future lies not in extractive monocultures but in agroecology, sovereignty, and...
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