"The question of whether Bastian Schweinsteiger is a racist or not is not the crucial one ... The key question is rather why these stereotypes are repeatedly expressed in football and why, for many, they seem to reflect reality rather than appear problematic." theconversation.com/racism-at-th...

"The film does more than dramatise crime fighting: it reveals how citizens negotiate legitimacy, justice and political authority when the state struggles to provide security." theconversation.com/issakaba-wha...

"Western society has developed in a context that often seeks to define and establish separate religious and secular aspects of life. But, African knowledge systems generally treat what we might call science, religion, medicine and art as parts of a unified whole." theconversation.com/what-ghanas-...

"How African football transformed itself from a peripheral curiosity into a central force on the global stage." theconversation.com/world-cup-hi...

"The translation demonstrates that African languages are not simply vehicles for local experience; they are capable of engaging the most complex works of world literature while bringing new meanings to them." by Tinashe Mushakavanhu theconversation.com/ulysses-in-i...

"This mixing and matching is locally described as “religious shopping”. According to the hundreds of self-identified religious shoppers I’ve interviewed over the past 15 years, those seeking health and wealth cannot afford to be picky." - Dr Marloes Janson theconversation.com/shopping-for...

"Our analysis argues that jhāna and tongues might be culturally distinct tools acting on the same human mechanism – a spiral of attention, arousal and release that enables renewal." theconversation.com/meditation-a...

Why Jonasi is never fully at home anywhere. theconversation.com/power-pleasu... By Dr Grace Khunou

"As South Africa became remote as a physical presence, however, it gained presence in the poetics of Ibrahim’s sound and discourse. These early years of his absence from South Africa present the lesser known corners of his musical career." theconversation.com/abdullah-ibr...

"Long before the first Phoenician ships sailed the western Mediterranean, communities in what is now Morocco were farming and herding animals. They were also crossing the Strait of Gibraltar and participating in long-distance exchanges." theconversation.com/moroccos-hid...

"According to a study on how AI companionship develops, 68% of AI chatbot users perceive these tools as “somewhat” or “fully” humanlike, 90% believe chatbots are intelligent, 78% believe chatbots are empathetic, and 75% believe they’re conscious." theconversation.com/people-are-m...

"Ma Vesta’s passionate, community-based activism matters because it reveals the importance of “everyday politics” – the small acts of resistance, often outside official politics, that foster personal and collective emancipation." theconversation.com/ma-vesta-smi...

"Focusing only on victimhood or elite stars does no justice to the more common realities, aspirations and challenges of migrants who are reshaping today’s Europe and its football." theconversation.com/world-cup-20...

"Half a century later, the words of the song still have lessons about the events of June 16. The story of its creation teaches too: about a shared African history in which borders did not define humanity." theconversation.com/the-story-be...

"Early European historians and anthropologists often portrayed African rulers as tyrants ruling through fear, superstition and violence." theconversation.com/great-zimbab...

"At 90, when playing this same piece his hands traced notes sporadically and gently on the keyboard, like a ghost, with the tune in his right hand occasionally ahead of the change of chords in the left. Minimal." #RIPAbdullahIbrahim theconversation.com/abdullah-ibr...

Being able to write about you was the only thing that helped this week, Maria www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

"Framing this episode as an embarrassment obscures what needs to be examined. It misses the main point of what is at stake." theconversation.com/south-africa...

"As Congolese philosopher Valentin-Yves Mudimbe famously argued, Africa has often been constructed as an object of knowledge rather than a subject producing it." theconversation.com/6-african-th...

"One of the foundational figures in the European intellectual tradition came from Africa and spent almost his entire life there." theconversation.com/love-grace-a...

"His April 2026 visit reflects both his personal ties to Africa and the rapid rise of Christianity across the continent." theconversation.com/pope-leos-vi...

"We argue that urban transformation today cannot be understood simply as a choice between preserving the past or starting anew. Instead, cities are increasingly shaped by a complex interaction between the two." theconversation.com/designing-ci...

"Ice Shock is an attempt to rethink and rewrite how we inhabit the planet." - Rodwell Makombe theconversation.com/ice-shock-is...

"Makemation as a vital intervention that challenges the dominance of western techno-narratives. It places AI within local histories of inequality, aspiration and improvisation." - Tinashe Mushakavanhu theconversation.com/makemation-a...

"The Ghana declaration sets a precedent. It seeks to redefine the moral language of the international order. Elevating it as the gravest crime underscores slavery’s scale and duration." - Kwasi Konadu theconversation.com/the-transatl...

"Afcon is not just a football tournament. It is a continental sports brand. Its value does not rest solely on the quality of the play or its audience reach. It is also about story." theconversation.com/senegal-stri...

"At one of her last public performances, in 2025, she declared: “Hulle het nog by die hek gestaan om my uit te hou, toe staan ek al op die dak!” (They were still standing at the gate to keep me out, when I was already standing on the roof!)" theconversation.com/diana-ferrus...

"Muholi’s work never shies away from pain and loss. But, like all the best forms of visual activism, it shows us the darkness to take us to the light." theconversation.com/zanele-muhol...

"Victims are lured with promises of football trials, academy placements or opportunities in Europe, only to end up in exploitative conditions in Nigeria. " theconversation.com/human-traffi...

"Nostalgia poisons your ability to understand your place in your own narrative, therefore in history too" theconversation.com/memory-is-no...

"The deal raises a difficult question: what does it mean to sell your digital self in a world where Black and African bodies have been used and profited from for centuries without consent and fair compensation?" theconversation.com/khaby-lame-i...

"The songs in our study all contain explicit references to online fraud. All were performed by male artists. And all were globally available. What we found goes well beyond glorification. Afrobeats, we argue, is functioning as a moral text ." theconversation.com/afrobeats-ce...

"We have to understand the impossibility of this work under occupation by design; how occupation makes their lives impossible and literally makes this little girl’s life impossible." theconversation.com/the-voice-of...

"Boncana Maïga was never especially interested in the traditional instruments, his real passion was composing and arranging for dance bands. This skill was to have a major impact on the popular music of Mali." theconversation.com/malis-maestr...

"She challenged the assumption that African philosophy was merely folklore. To her it was a rigorous intellectual tradition." theconversation.com/sophie-oluwo...

"IThe people who truly understood the extent of the rape and violence against women were not the police or other authorities. Rather, it was the quiet presence of the church pastors and the wives of the imams that the women confided in." theconversation.com/faith-leader...

"We often chase the extraordinary, forgetting the power of the ordinary, the mundane, and the everyday." theconversation.com/zimbabwean-a...

"I argue in my study that this affirmation of life allows for a happiness that can include and respond to unhappiness and chance." theconversation.com/what-is-happ...

"Digital religion is not only about spreading faith. It is also about expanding influence and, in some cases, monetising belief." theconversation.com/prophets-and...

"In aiming for zero tolerance, the state has policed intimacy instead of teaching consent." theconversation.com/sierra-leone...

"The film moves between personal memory and historical reckoning, asking how lives shaped by political struggle are remembered and who gets to do the remembering." theconversation.com/south-africa...

The levels of subterfuge involved in attempts to sabotage Gabrielle Goliath's work hints at the expansive nature of contemporary warfare - where borders are made conveniently permeable if and when a powerful state suppresses dissent @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/gabrielle-go...

"This matters because being represented is not only about being visible. It’s also about producing audiences. More than depicting queer lives, films like Rafiki shape new viewing communities and new forms of recognition." theconversation.com/rafiki-unban...

"The business model that made street food work in Mombasa’s economy also brought these vendors into regular conflict with the city’s administration." theconversation.com/street-food-...

"My study found that night running as understood in modern times is a duality: the ritual of persons running naked at night and causing havoc, and a symbol of navigating the nocturnal city against the grain." theconversation.com/kenyas-night...

"Apongo’s story offers an opportunity to better understand the complexities of west African identity and to put a more human face on those enslaved." theconversation.com/apongo-was-a...

"Many VJs are celebrities in Uganda and possess loyal fans who regularly turn out to watch them perform. In fact, the VJ is often more of a draw for audiences than the film they are voicing over." theconversation.com/inside-ugand...

"For over a decade now, Falz has been marrying musical skills and social activism with digital savvy and comedy." theconversation.com/revolutionar...

The impact of labour migration on women in Botswana - when men return home. "From what they told me, it became apparent that most marriages did not work out for the best." theconversation.com/marriage-and...

"The increasing ability of regimes to narrowly target shutdowns on specific areas is of great concern as it allows the state to punish opposition areas while privileging others." theconversation.com/internet-shu...