AfricaIs aCountry

Janus Faced

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Janus Faced

By
Sean Jacobs

We’re closing shop from tomorrow, December 24th, until January 4th, 2011.

Thanks for a great year supporting this site.

Meanwhile, follow us on twitter. Because if you don’t, you miss half the good stuff anyway. Some of us–Brett, Herman, Sonja and myself–have a twitterfeed running on the right-hand side of this page. (Just click on the @Twitter text and you’ll be directed to our individual Twitter pages. Others, like Boima, can be reached directly on Twitter.

We’ll update our respective feeds regularly between now and then.

Until 2011.

Further Reading

Empire’s middlemen

From Portuguese Goa to colonial Kampala, Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book shows how India became an instrument of empire, and a scapegoat in its aftermath.

À qui s’adresse la CAN ?

Entre le coût du transport aérien, les régimes de visas, la culture télévisuelle et l’exclusion de classe, le problème de l’affluence à la CAN est structurel — et non le signe d’un manque de passion des supporters.

Lions in the rain

The 2025 AFCON final between Senegal and Morocco was a dramatic spectacle that tested the limits of the match and the crowd, until a defining moment held everything together.