• James M. Dorsey

Algeria reached the African Cup final for the first time in 29 years after defeating Nigeria. It can't be divorced from politics back home.

• Peter Cole

What happens when ike's, a legendary bookstore in Durban, South Africa, creates a literary festival? For one, synergy.

• Niall Reddy
• Michael Nassen Smith

One of South Africa's leading universities, UCT, released a curriculum change framework post-#RhodeMustFall. This is a critique by two alum.

• Hisham Aïdi

The long and wondrous life of Hassan Ouakrim, the "Cultural Ambassador" of the Maghreb to the United States.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

How do queer women in Senegal navigate the simultaneous desires of same-sex intimacies, family life, societal expectations, and urban success?

• Chérif Keita

A long awaited recognition comes for the two American founders of social work in South Africa.

• Abderrahim Bourkia

The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt and football’s peculiar hold on national identity.

• Sam Broadway

What social media activism gets wrong about the #SudanUprising: Sometimes it may be appropriate to leave the hashtags alone and say nothing.

• Richard Vokes
• Derek R. Peterson
• Edgar Taylor
• Nelson Abiti

A trove of unprinted photographs and other media from the Idi Amin years in Uganda is now available for public view giving us insight to the concerns of the regime and realities of living under his rule.

• James M. Dorsey

Egypt got knocked out in the Round of 16, but the hosts have been hamstrung by multiple events, including the military's control.

• Loes Oudenhuijsen

Queer identities, widely accepted on the pitch in women's football, may be the way to challenge gender norms in some societies.

• Kuukuwa Manful

The last time Ghana's men's national football team won a tournament was thirty-seven years ago. The team is beginning to feel like yet another failing state institution.

• Bulelani Jili

Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?

• Alexander Dawson

The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.

• Aliyah Blackmore

Thanks in part to the internet, Black women in Cuba are now able to forge space and create visibility for themselves.

• Liz Timbs

The story of Surya Bonaly, and her unwillingness to yield to racist demands and expectations in the sport of figure skating.

• Kamau Muiga

Turn any homophobic corner in Africa and you're guaranteed to run into a delirious celebration of "African culture," but there's nothing African about homophobia.

• Godefroid Muzalia
• Koen Vlassenroot
• Aymar Nyenyezi
• An Ansoms
• Emery Mudinga

In the Bukavu Series, researchers from two Congolese and two European universities explore how they interrogate violence in the DRC.

• Vik Sohonie

It's time to return Africa's vinyl records.

• Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire
• Isaac Ssemakadde
• Kuukuwa Manful
• Margaret Namulyanga

The charge is "misusing a computer." Dr. Stella Nyanzi remains incarcerated to this day in Luzira Women’s Prison.