AFRICA IS A COUNTRY

JUNE 18. 2025

Critical mass

Cycling as community in Dar es Salaam.

JUNE 17. 2025

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.

JUNE 16. 2025

The verdict against womanhood

From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.

JUNE 13. 2025

It’s Gianni’s world …

On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?

JUNE 12. 2025

Firearms aren’t the only weapons

The writings of revolutionary Angolan leader and intellectual Mário Pinto de Andrade helped galvanize the Angolan independence struggle. They are now available in a new English volume.

JUNE 11. 2025

Mozambique’s mid-life crisis

After 50 Years of independence in Mozambique, what and how to celebrate?

JUNE 10. 2025

Return the gods

The founder of a digital archive of African deities explains the motivation behind its creation.

JUNE 9. 2025

The end of AGOA

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

JUNE 6. 2025

Goïta, gift to the insurgents

Despite the popularity of the Sahel's military leaders internationally, most Malians have yet to see improvement to their material conditions at home.

JUNE 5. 2025

Hollywood gloss and cinematic Afropology

Africa's biggest filmmakers are rejecting Western demands for resolution and containment in cinema—instead embracing ambiguity, rupture, and silence as tools for historical reckoning of African stories.

JUNE 4. 2025

Between Washington and Beijing

Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny.

JUNE 3. 2025

The resurgence of Benin sound

Musical traditions and language from Edo State have moved from the margins of Nigeria's national culture to the center.

JUNE 2. 2025

Fighting for the waste commons

A new documentary film examines the politics of waste work and discard infrastructures in Dakar.

MAY 31. 2025

Hope after liberation

A portrait of South Sudan’s unfinished journey, where political sacrifice meets everyday survival, and the burden of memory contends with the quiet power of continuity.