5+ hour, 28+ min ago  (1159+ words) Despite commercialization and elite capture, the world's most popular sport still generates forms of collective life that resist the logic of capitalism. However, soccer is even more political today. Not only is the beautiful game a multibillion-dollar industry and the…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1577+ words) After years of heartbreak, Congolese fans are guarding their expectations ahead of a decisive play-off against Jamaica for a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Yet qualification would mean something bigger than sport. DR Congo players celebrate their penalty shootout…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (281+ words) A new history of Mombasa shows how street food, colonial labor migration, and urban capitalism reshaped what'and how'Kenya eats. Street scene in Old Town, Mombasa, Kenya. Image credit Francisco Anzola via Flickr CC BY 2.0. Social reproduction, gender, and the lingering…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (382+ words) An exhibition in Ibadan recovers Nigeria's buried history of activism, raising urgent questions about access, erasure, and whether archives can inspire new political action. Archives are repositories of the past. A way of holding on. Of preserving. In various forms....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (468+ words) Wizkid's dispute with Seun Kuti and the release of his latest EP with Asake highlight the widening gap between Afrobeats' commercial triumph and Fela Kuti's political inheritance Screenshot from Wizkid on Instagram (Fair Use). A few weeks ago, some disturbing…...

1+ mon, 15+ hour ago  (253+ words) The architecture of southeastern Nigeria unsettles the neat binary between "indigenous" and "foreign." To practicalize these reflections, the book's narrative is woven around five key elements of the Bight's culture and architecture. The walled compound, the masquerade, the offshore, the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (249+ words) Pedro Pinho's latest film follows a Portuguese engineer in Guinea-Bissau, exposing how empire survives through bureaucracy, intimacy, and the language of "development." I Only Rest in the Storm extends Pinho's fascination with the afterlives of labor and ideology, themes the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (491+ words) Behind the refereeing drama and rising revenues, AFCON 2025 exposed a tournament increasingly shaped by global capital rather than the long-term health of African football. Fans fill the streets of Dakar as Senegal celebrate their victory parade following their triumph over…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (490+ words) Burna Boy's highly publicized Lagos prison visit looked like generosity, but it also looked like content. Who was it really for? Burna Boy at the Untold Festival in Romania 2024. Image credit Lucian Nu" CC BY-SA 2.0. Videos recently circulated of Burna…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (539+ words) From national redemption and continental dominance to personal legacy and political ambition, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final means everything to Africans. Vieux Ciss" and Marouane Louadni during the CHAN 2024 semi-final between Senegal and Morocco, August 26, 2025, Kampala, Uganda. Image: CAF....