The sensation of Amapiano is felt, and the pulse underneath carries something wider as it travels across Africa. Still, both the music and the continent are routinely reduced to party soundtrack or permanent crisis. These surface readings reinforce each other, turning cross-border rhythms into an anomaly instead of evidence. What becomes visible when we refuse them?

Ubuntu’s origins must not be conflated with its theorisation and deployment as anti-imperial resistance. Its obligations concerning personhood and collective life already carry political meaning. Colonial domination intensified their expression through survival and resistance. In this poem, Pheko invites the audience to consider the demands of ubuntu, what ubuntu is and what it is not.

A review of a sorrowful and remarkable account of Janet Alder’s undaunted struggle for justice for her brother, Christopher Alder, who was unlawfully murdered in police custody in Hull and whose body was denied justice in death through body swap.

In this poetic prose, Opicho challenges men, fathers, gatekeepers and beneficiaries of patriarchal structures to release the girl child to unleash her potential through education instead of ongoing restrictions to the kitchen, extraction of dowry, sexual exploitation and gender violence.

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 The poetic historicity of African civilizations and the rupture of the middle passage

Music has long been instrumentalised in the service of colonial, neo-colonial, and geopolitical structures: it remains a vital force for resistance and emancipation across Global Africa, from independence struggles to ongoing quests for African freedom and dignity.

In the struggles for freedom, the ocean became a route through systems of oppression. Freedom Ship highlights the oceanic routes used in journeys to liberation. 

The exhaustion of undoing centuries before you can rebuild. Her story still shadows ours. It is an active lie we would be writing against, not from. 

A review of a book challenging selective restitution that sidelines Global Africa.

A review of Fitz's acclaimed book on Cuba’s Health Care System

A lamentation to those who have been forced by the repressive machinery of the Tanzanian state to pay the ultimate price, and poetic protestations refusing tragic silence.

A review of Community Policing in Nigeria highlights how true safety is people-driven, exposing the failures of state-centered security.

Graversgaard argues that “There is really a great need for hope and inspiration for the youth in the Global South, and Freedom Libraries [in community and workers’ spaces] can be one of the tools…” 

Through reviews of two books, the author reflects on lessons that contemporary protest movements can learn from past anti-systemic revolts in South Africa.

The author posits that from the perspective of African women, it is impossible to ignore racism and sexism while organising against poverty.

Through this piece of art, the artist expresses his views on what he calls “sustainable art”.

Ann Garrison shares her opinion on Judi Rever’s recent book, In-Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a book that has given an audacious account of what happened during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

In this review of the American film Us, the author highlights the movie’s core message that most of the times, we, human beings, are our own enemies. 

Michael D. Yates, in chapter 5 of his recently released book – Can the Working Class Change the World?– conducts an important task of assessing the power of capital. Below is a review of that chapter.