Saturday 5 September 2026
Culture
Culture
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From Khartoum to Kampala, Walid Al-Alfi’s Girls’ Theatre project helps Sudanese women turn personal memories of war and Kampala into performances shaped in their own voices onstage today.
From Khartoum to Kampala, Walid Al-Alfi’s Girls’ Theatre project helps Sudanese women turn personal memories of war and Kampala into performances shaped in their own voices onstage today.
Books
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At independence in 1960, Somaliland had produced only two university graduates, not a single qualified doctor or nurse, and just one secondary school for boys in the entire territory.
At independence in 1960, Somaliland had produced only two university graduates, not a single qualified doctor or nurse, and just one secondary school for boys in the entire territory.
Thoughts
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Contemporary anxieties over Somali “Arabisation” frequently reproduce colonial ideas of authenticity, misread Islamic influence as cultural displacement, and overlook the more consequential erosion of language and intergenerational memory.
Contemporary anxieties over Somali “Arabisation” frequently reproduce colonial ideas of authenticity, misread Islamic influence as cultural displacement, and overlook the more consequential erosion of language and intergenerational memory.
Thoughts
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On a rough field inside Kiryandongo refugee settlement, displaced women are building a volleyball community that gives girls room to compete, form friendships and recover a sense of agency after war.
On a rough field inside Kiryandongo refugee settlement, displaced women are building a volleyball community that gives girls room to compete, form friendships and recover a sense of agency after war.
Culture
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Remembering Cali Shucaac, poet, veteran, and witness, whose life carried Somali oral memory through colonial partition, state violence, and the struggle for dignity, self-determination, and lasting collective justice.
Remembering Cali Shucaac, poet, veteran, and witness, whose life carried Somali oral memory through colonial partition, state violence, and the struggle for dignity, self-determination, and lasting collective justice.
Art
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From unity anthems to love songs, Saalax Sanaag is building a musical world rooted in Somalinimo, reminding a divided people that belonging can still be sung into being together.
From unity anthems to love songs, Saalax Sanaag is building a musical world rooted in Somalinimo, reminding a divided people that belonging can still be sung into being together.
Thoughts
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The exclusion of Somali referee Omar Artan hardens the contradiction at the heart of the 2026 World Cup: a global tournament increasingly shaped by the politics of exclusion.
The exclusion of Somali referee Omar Artan hardens the contradiction at the heart of the 2026 World Cup: a global tournament increasingly shaped by the politics of exclusion.
Culture
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The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.
Cinema
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The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.
The film Out of Africa, set in colonial Kenya, explores the tension between romance, empire, and the European imagination of Africa. Beneath its love story lies a meditation on freedom, power, and belonging.
Art
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Teddy Afro’s latest album continues his engagement with Ethiopia’s contested past.
The work highlights how art becomes a space for national debate.
Teddy Afro’s latest album continues his engagement with Ethiopia’s contested past.
The work highlights how art becomes a space for national debate.
