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For decades, Africa has often been portrayed as the place where Marxism supposedly failed, where class dissolved into ethnicity, religion, or spirituality. But what if the more interesting question is not whether Marxism worked in Africa, but how Africa transformed Marxism itself? Starting from Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa, Naomi Kelechi Di Meo explores the encounter between Marxist thought, …

For decades, the idea of a Soviet-backed Black state in the American South has been dismissed as little more than Cold War conspiracy. Yet behind the propaganda lies a far more complex history, one that reveals how communists, Black radicals, and anti-colonial struggles grappled with questions of race, class, and self-determination in the twentieth century. In this article, Mattia Marzà retraces …

What makes intimacy possible in public? In his latest article for oltreoceano, Michael explores Black nightlife, queer party culture, and the fragile conditions that allow people to feel seen, connected, and at ease with one another. Moving between Looking for Langston, Lovers Rock, and the photographic archive of Liz Johnson Artur’s PDA, the piece reflects on how spaces of belonging are built, …