April Zhu and Mohamed “Izzo” Abdalazez recount the keyboard-and-dance music genre’s floppy-disk origins, viral spread, moral panic, and digital evolution.

How Sudan’s revolutionary generation was dragged into total war

“I was born into Christianity as I was born into America. In my childhood, there was the church and the diaspora, and I could not imagine one without the other.”

Not long ago, I was reading, in a magazine profile, a physical description of a person “who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows.” A photo of the person was inclu...

Namwali Serpell’s study of Toni Morrison – Omari Weekes

A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.

A redevelopment project in Nairobi’s Ngara district promises revival—but raises deeper questions about capital, memory, and who has the right to shape the city.

April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.

Medical institutions are silencing their staff and impeding efforts to build solidarity with medical workers in Gaza.

For the UAE and Saudi Arabia, a divided Sudan is easier to dominate and profit from, writes Joshua Craze.

Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced re...

When the American Dream came to Africa

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Like all great found objects, the butt plug invites questions.” On American waste in Afghanistan....

April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.

April Zhu: Let’s start with the charges. UnHerd columnist Kat Rosenfeld wrote that we editors who resigned in protest had reached with our “hot little hands” for “the censor’s pen.

Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Sudan’s devastating civil war shows what will replace the liberal order: anarchy and greed.

In Dubai.

Alex Haley co-wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X but Haley left out some profound elements of Malcolm’s political thought

The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

We’re thrilled to announce that the construction of the Ghetto Foundation Communit… Naomi Van Stapele needs your support for Building Hope in Mathare, Nairobi

A former diplomat involved in the plot to murder Lumumba may face trial if a magistrate allows the case to proceed

A hitch in the battle against smog

The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman reveals how Christian nationalism can fuel political violence. Vance Boelter, linked to far-right religious networks and inspired by spirit...

Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

Ferocity of Israeli strikes has taken many by surprise, with people rushing to buy petrol and food amid the bombs