• Sa’eed Husaini

Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?

• Chelsea Stieber

The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.

• Jon Fish Hodgson

The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.

• Abraham T. Zere

An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?

• Joeva Rock
• Jacob M. Grumbach

The involvement of far right and conservative think tanks in developing Trump's Africa agenda.

• Robert Heinze

The connections between technocratic development policies, neocolonialism, colonial denialism and the turn to the right in German public discourse.

• Alex Park

Africa, for Donald Trump and his National Security Advisor John Bolton, is a place to risk a little and chase some glory. US media just parrots it.

• Liz Timbs

South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.

• Ann McDougall

The future looks terrifying for many US-based exiles from Mauritania—facing deportation to Africa's modern "slave nation" under Trump's monstrous ICE.

• Anne Pitcher

In the age of renewed tyranny and illiberalism, diverse political repertoires and modes of struggle from the continent of Africa offer inspiration.

• Marilene Felinto
• Danê Jaheem Sosaba
• Sérgio Alli

What does the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro mean for Brazilians of African descent?

• moshood

In Ghana, political leaders, religious leaders and leading rappers all have one thing in common: internalized anti-blackness.

• Clovis Bergère

Who gets to host future editions of the men's soccer World Cup is not just big business, but also a bargaining chip in international relations.

• Michael Bueckert

South Africa's white nationalists are finally in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump. Nobody likes what they see.

• John Aerni-Flessner
• Charles Fogelman

The rise of populism across the US and Western Europe has been well documented, but it is not only an American or European issue. The case of Lesotho.

• Vito Laterza

Italian politics has taken a sharp turn to the right. Migrants, especially African ones, bear the brunt of their rhetoric. Its ground zero for a new rightwing politics.

• Stephen Coplan

South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history--24 years after the end of Apartheid.

• Ainehi Edoro
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika
• Wilfred Okiche
• Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì
• Fareeda Abdulkareem
• Toyin Ajao
• Dotun Ayobade

A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz's take on Childish Gambino's viral "This Is America."

• Andy Kasrils

Why has Childish Gambino's "This is America" video resonated with so many people around the world?

• Melusi Nkomo

While entertaining, the showy presidential campaign of Zimbabwe's opposition may not amount to much on July 30th.