• Makena Maganjo

A postmortem on the African Growth and Opportunities Act.

• Fatoumata Bah

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.

• Mebratu Kelecha

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

• Alexandra Gerasimcikova
• Paul Okumu

Europe’s flagship development plan promises investment and partnership—but delivers debt, displacement, and old colonial patterns dressed up in green.

• Milo Gough

Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.

• Abdelkader Abderrahmane

With Europe increasingly closed, West African migrants are turning to the US—via Latin America. But the journey is long, dangerous, and brutally expensive, raising urgent questions about global responsibility.

• Peiman Salehi

Framed as hard diplomacy, economic sanctions are a subtler form of warfare—one that erodes sovereignty, punishes civilians, and extends colonial power under a new name.

• Naila Aroni

Recent celebrity investments in the continent raises the question: Who is it really for?

• Marjorie Namara Rugunda

Western donors are cutting budgets, but the aid model they built—rooted in control, dependency, and depoliticization—still shapes Africa’s development.

• Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

Anti-queer laws in Africa are often framed as cultural defense—but their roots lie in colonial legacies, religious nationalism, and global reactionary alliances.

• Daniel Ekonde

At summits and in speeches, African leaders promise to harness AI for development. But without investment in power, connectivity, and people, the continent risks replaying old failures in new code.

• Joeva Rock
• Ann Kingiri
• Matthew A. Schnurr

What will we eat in the future—and who gets to decide? From lab-grown meat to agroecology, the politics of food in Africa are being shaped by tech dreams, corporate agendas, and grassroots resistance.

• 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.

• Naila Aroni

In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. What does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile?

• Achille Tenkiang

Across the continent, music festivals are challenging industry gatekeepers and testing what it means to organize on African terms.

• Muriithi Kariuki

Homophobia doesn’t start with violence—it begins with silence, erasure, and everyday destruction. But straight people only seem to notice when it’s too late.

• Bassil Mikdadi

While FIFA swiftly banned Russia from competition, it continues to delay action on Israel—revealing the politics behind football’s so-called neutrality.

• Faisal Ali

France’s president can’t stop talking, but his condescending remarks on Africa are only accelerating the collapse of French influence on the continent.

• Maher Mezahi

AFCON doesn’t need European validation to be major—it already is. But the real danger lies in how dismissive narratives shape the value of African football and its players.

• Jennifer D. Daniel

Touted as a path to empowerment, Africa’s gig economy is a digital twist on old patterns of labor exploitation—but workers are fighting back.