Hisham Aidi offers a compelling account of how Morocco became a key site for competing political and cultural discourses in support of African and Arab pan-African solidarity. He shows that a militant and anti-essentialist vision of this unity emerged in 1966 around the magazine Souffles (Anfas), founded by Moroccan writers influenced by the thought of Frantz Fanon. However, Aidi argues that this early initiative was superseded by the more culturally oriented the Afro-Arab Forum, established in Asilah in 1980 by the Moroccan diplomat Mohammed Benaissa under the auspices of Senegalese President and Poet Lepold Segar Senghor’s. Grounded in Senghor’s vision of civilisational métissage, the Asilah Forum has worked to resist efforts to draw a dividing line between North and Sub-Saharan Africa and continues to do so today.

Brandon Marc Finn and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah argue that in the DR Congo, industrial mining companies and political elites operate under the banner of decarbonization while perpetuating historic injustices.