SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics is an independent, Pan-African, post-disciplinary, global, multimedia platform founded in 2015. The word “sunu” comes from the Senegalese dialect Wolof, and it means “our.”

SUNU Journal publishes original, transtemporal works of various themes, forms and ideas dealing with Africa and the Diaspora. These works are created by a diverse collective of young and emerging artists, writers, and thought leaders who are known as SUNU Contributors.

SUNU Contributors engage critically with African and Afro-diasporic themes and topics at continental, regional, national and international levels. SUNU Journal delves beneath the surface to identify theories, practices and representations at the nexus of (but not limited to) politics, society, visual culture, post-colonial theory, literature, history, Black + African studies, art, and cultural theories + practices.

To better underscore the centrality of collectivity to the work of SUNU Journal and to ensure accessibility, our content is translated from English and made available in two other lingua francas of Africa and the Diaspora: French and Portuguese. SUNU Journal aims to include additional languages in the future. Please see our note about translations here.*

*Our translated pages are currently undergoing maintenance and will be back up soon.