The evils of these processes are vast, and it is important to remember them: the displacement and death of thousands of people; brutal physical and psychological violence; continuous humiliation; the systematic rape of black women, which also led to racial mixing; the mandatory assimilation into what was considered “superior culture”; internal divisions; attempts to erase and ban the expression of African languages and cultures; economic and epistemological violence; racial hierarchies. This was the case in Angola and other colonized regions. I was born and raised in a country where the marks of the colonial regime endure and its vestiges remain alive.
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22.05.2026 | by Leopoldina Fekayamãle
Algorithmic capitalism proposes an operating scheme that is increasingly defined by circular lines that join the two terms, producing scenarios that do not seem exaggerated to define as apocalyptic. The development of AI strengthens that plot, which becomes increasingly evident through stated strategies and actions taken, where nothing must be disguised. Everything finds an explanation in scientific – or pseudoscientific – statements that bring together absolute confidence in technology, religious beliefs, differences between human beings based on the intelligence quotient.
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21.05.2026 | by Stefano Rota and Rodrigo Magalhães
In a time of fierce competition for historical memory, in which the most extreme forces on the right try to rewrite what fascism was, the film Women of the Revolution, by Raquel Freire, is a moment of truth, a point of order at the table. Who tells our story? Who guesses the joys and the sufferings, the griefs, and the charms? Who knows what was in the heart of a child who was killed along with their family in Gaza? Who hears the birds in the morning feeling what overflows the life that fits us?
Afroscreen
21.05.2026 | by Josina Almeida
What has happened in Venezuela goes beyond the realm of internal political dispute and enters, quite explicitly, the territory of raw imperialism, undisguised, shameless and without any real commitment to democracy. Donald Trump’s speech, in which he announced that the United States would “govern” Venezuela and take control of its oil, laid bare what Latin America has known ever since it was invaded by the Europeans: it has always been about resources, trade and profit. It has never been about freedom, it has never been about human rights, it has never been about democracy.
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19.05.2026 | by Gabriella Florenzano
The goal of this text is not to redefine the selection criteria of Indie — it's like the orthographic agreement, as long as there's a rule, it works. Rather, it serves as a pretext for exploring the origins of a brand-new Portuguese cinema, in search of those lost roots, that movement, that unity, even if fragile. This is despite the fact that, in a globalised world, we are all inevitably influenced on a global scale. Nevertheless, one should not underestimate the potential of one’s immediate neighbour.
Afroscreen
19.05.2026 | by Manuel Halpern
It is thrilling to feel the wave of diverse people “going out into the streets (avenues, I`m sorry) with carnations in their hands at set times”. I am a cell from this mass of water and flesh for decades, and it has been exciting to see the revolution day reactivate, gain pulse and multitude, more cause and watchwords. I recognize the 25th of April on my path, as if I practiced every day, and I have been thinking in our generation’s place: the children of the 25th of April, that came after the end of the dictatorship to put in practice freedom, with so many possibilities to blossom and always so complaining. We went through the analogical to the digital, from heroin to amphetamine, from post-Cold War to global crises, between celebrating and the fear of losing… the social State, the work, the home, the spirit.
Mukanda
19.05.2026 | by Marta Lança
The tendency towards individualisation, the loss of meaning in collective ways of interpreting processes and formulating responses, the dominance of the ideology of success at any cost and of meritocracy – where failure is attributed to individual blame – and the constant undervaluation of physical relationships in favour of virtual ones: all of this points to an anthropological shift that reaches deep levels, including the realm of the unconscious and of dreams.
Body
19.05.2026 | by Stefano Rota
The next day, as usual, the grandmother went to lay flowers in the grave and came across the grandson's body lying on the ground, the servants who were with her manifested themselves and the spirits began to quarrel. His maternal relatives wanted him to be a servant of God, adopting modern practices to represent the family in society. On the other hand, his paternal family wanted him in the hut, serving the family spirits. The shouts reached the village and everyone watched that spectacle of spiritual conflict.
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07.05.2026 | by Edna Matavel
Birthplace of one of the greatest Pan-Africanist thinkers of all time, Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau occupies our collective memory, just like Toussaint’s Haiti, Dessalines, Boukman and Cécile Fatiman, a place reserved for the great luminaries of the history of Pan-African revolutions and struggles. Therefore, we can not be indifferent to the extreme violence that the people of this nation, forged in the struggle, has been facing in the hands of a State ruled by scammers, kleptocrats and murderers, whose Berlin-style agenda has been nothing but the destruction of that ‘broad road of hope’ built by the greatest collective endeavour this people has ever undertaken: the struggle for independence.
Mukanda
01.05.2026 | by Apolo de Carvalho, Alexssandro Robalo, Sumaila Jaló and Yussef Marta
For many in Libya, the Jamahiriya remains a reference point of lost sovereignty and stability. Such views are reinforced with every new revelation about Libya’s subjugation to outside forces. One of the latest insights into this subjugation came when the US Department of Justice released documents revealing that, during NATO’s intervention in Libya, Jeffrey Epstein worked with former British and Israeli intelligence officers in an effort to access billions in Libyan state assets frozen in Western countries.
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30.04.2026 | by Owen Schalk
It needs to address the fluid religious imagination of many African Christians who easily migrate from mainline Christian groups like Catholicism to Pentecostalism and African traditional religion. This means the Catholic church needs a moment of self-introspection to ask if it is really meeting the people at their points of need. Is it a church that bears the narratives and wounds of the people?
I'll visit
24.04.2026 | by Stan Chu Ilo
Violence such as sexual assault continue to be a factor that inhibits women's full participation in public life and access to employment. But there is also the matter of denial of their existence as citizens of Angola, which manifests itself in the difficulty of accessing civil registry records. Recently, within our women's movement, We conducted a project in the municipality of Cubal where, out of a group of about 300 women, only two or three had identification cards.
Body
24.04.2026 | by Sizaltina Cutaia
By prioritizing an approach centered on people’s experiences, it presents itself as a humanising discipline that seeks to capture the nuances of everyday life, beyond the statistical cut-outs and social determinisms. Of course, there are structures, tendencies and politics that go beyond people’s will and that must be analysed (consider the processes of racialisation and precarisation), but a closer look at their strategies, dreams and aspirations allows us to understand the choices available to them within socially defined boundaries, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. For this reason, this study takes specific localities in order to gain an understanding of the situation of Muslims in Sintra and does not claim to represent the Muslim population as a whole.
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23.04.2026 | by Raquel Carvalheira and José Mapril
How to embrace these unstable forms, breaking out of other times? To conclude, it is worth returning to the concept of “critical hospitality” mentioned by Brandstetter in the preface. Alexandra Balona puts this concept into practice through the creation of an essayistic methodology and a critical writing that works by approximation and through engagement with the artwork, seeking to remain hospitable to its intensity.
Stages
21.04.2026 | by Liliana Coutinho
Renewed uncertainty around US engagement, including signals of potential funding reductions, institutional disengagement, and a second withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, has reintroduced questions about the durability of global climate commitments.
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21.04.2026 | by Nelly Madegwa
Modern-day slavery is the lot reserved for Kenya’s youth by a government once invested in the education of the country’s young but now content to send them to foreign lands as labour exports.
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21.04.2026 | by Keith Ang'ana
There was also a clear intention of appropriation of the archives, especially the written sources. As Saidiya Hartman points out, for enslaved people, the archive is always an encounter with violence: they appear in the records only when they are bought, shipped or landed. It is never they who leave behind their own writings or their version of the story. It is always the oppressor, the enslaver, who writes. Therefore, this file is inevitably contaminated by this historical violence, and still existing on the present day. But I felt that I had the right to make it my own, to take from it whatever served the film’s purpose: to tell this story in a free, expanded and contemplative way.
Face to face
20.04.2026 | by Marta Lança
Africa also has the potential to position itself as a hub for renewable energy and sustainable finance. With vast solar and wind resources, expanding urban centres, and an increasingly digital financial sector, the continent could leapfrog towards a greener future if investment and regulation advance together.
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07.04.2026 | by Paola D'Orazio
In this continuous movement, between emergence and disappearance, the sea becomes cyclical memory: it brings fragments back to shore, smooths them, disperses them again. Nothing is ever truly lost; everything returns transformed. So too the stories of the island, Taíno, African, Haitian, Dominican, are not erased, but rewritten in a rhythm that is not linear, but circular. Like the waves, advancing and retreating without ever ceasing, history persists. And in their coming and going, they hold what has been, what is, and what has yet to emerge.
I'll visit
23.03.2026 | by Carlotta Pisano
These practices were serious enough for the newly independent African nation of Ghana to lodge a legal complaint against Portugal before the International Labour Organisation in 1962, helping to expose the fallacy of Portuguese benevolence towards its black population (Wolfson et al., 2009). As such, Eusébio, falsely made into a symbol of a non-racist past, functions to soften colonial realities and to silence the everyday racism experienced by African and Afro-Portuguese figures, who could not speak up at the time, in contrast to the anti-racist activism of Vinícius Jr. today.
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11.03.2026 | by Andrew Nunes
