The beach of São Francisco was half-empty when we arrived. The morning light had a metallic edge, slicing through the mist that hung low over the Atlantic. The beach smelled faintly of salt, diesel, ...

Building on the previous Collective Futures edition and reflecting on the afro Asian experiences, Part Two: the Sino-African relationship continues to evolve across history, culture, politics, ...

Kate Qiyu Chen is currently Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She earned her dual-title PhD in Comparative Literature and African Studies from ...

Geothermal development in Kenya is widely welcomed as green, clean and good for the country. But behind the glowing publicity is a hidden story of forced relocation, human rights abuses, land loss, ...

Four years into his stint as a senior technician at the now-defunct Kenya Posts & Telecommunications, in 1971, a young Francis Atwoli took on the role of branch secretary for the parastatal’s ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had guests from a neighbouring East African country that had just gone through a bruising presidential electioneering campaign period. They couldn’t fail to notice that even ...

Baptism by the Atlantic: Ethnographic Field Notes on Faith and Renjianshi of Chinese Migration in Cape Verde Shams Wang Xin September 16, 2026September 15, 2026 ...

Shams Wang Xin is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Universidade de Lisboa. His primary research interests lie in the intersections of transnationalism, gender, family, and education within the ...

Dutch growers who dominate the flower sector in Kenya were already in the news because of environmental violations and poor employment conditions. Now, as investigative journalists Romy van der Burgh ...

After finishing a long journey of studies in language and literature, the first shock I got on returning home to start my academic career was from the concept of “practical subjects” that are ...

On January 14, the UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) exposed a wide-ranging black-hat image-laundering scheme that implicated government and philanthropic leaders. Among the culprits, ...