Africa Is a Country

There is something undeniably strange about seeing an artist’s solo exhibition in a land he refuses

James Baldwin once wrote that he loved the US more than any other country in the

In one of Sudan’s largest agricultural regions, where vast fields sustain millions of livelihoods, a woman

In Mother Mary Comes To Me we learn that Arundhati Roy, the very same woman who

Last year, in one of those overly fun Nairobi evenings that tricks you into thinking the

There are few things that have been so consistently political as football. This is true of

“Olé! Olé! Olé! Congooo Congooo!” In the bowels of the Guadalajara stadium, Congolese and Mexican fans

‘‘Olé ! Olé ! Olé ! Congooo Congooo’!’ Dans les coursives du stade de Guadalajara, supporters

For years, a Nigerian Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, in interviews and on social media, has

In Guinea’s mountainous forest region lies the world’s largest untapped reserve of iron ore. The $24

A decade ago, nearly two-thirds of the African continent’s natural world heritage sites—recognized by the United

Whenever I visit Kinshasa, getting a haircut is part of the ritual. There’s something about the

Trump’s posting of racist images of the Obamas provoked condemnation across the world, though few outside

There is a port on the Gulf of Aden that empires keep finding indispensable. Berbera, on

Mombasa is a tapestry of rich history, vibrant culture, and renowned cuisine. The latter draws notably

Archives are repositories of the past. A way of holding on. Of preserving. In various forms.

On February 28,  the US and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran. Among the first sites

Let us be precise about what happened on March 11, 2026. Senegal’s National Assembly voted to

Comrades, friends, and the younger generation to whom the future belongs, what I present here are

Milkah, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), arrived in Nairobi in 2021,