BaGhana BaGhana
One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.
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Miguna Miguna
Miguna Miguna is a Kenyan activist and lawyer.
Not Socrates’ Brazil
Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.
#MeToo, Africa and the politics of transnational activism
Would white women in the US have supported #MeToo in the same way if it had been started by women elsewhere in the world?
The search for football talent in Africa
Two of Africa’s standout talents at Russia 2018–Moussa Wague and Francis Uzoho–were shaped by a football academy in Qatar. A new book tells that story.
Brazil is an Island
In Jamaica, which is always in need of healthy distraction, football is king and everyone at heart is a Brazilian.
When the War is Over
What are the fates of ex combatants from Cote d’Ivoire’s 2002-2011 civil war and would they go back to fighting?
Can the private sector deliver quality public education in Nigeria?
Nigeria is a fresh target of Bridge International, a global chain, whose schools have been shut down in Kenya and Uganda for violating their national laws.
Northern European Soccer Politics
Watching the World Cup in Finland and Estonia. Sample: “Finns just aren’t very good at, nor are they voracious consumers of the game.” As for Estonians, read on.
African poets get their own documentary
The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, “The Poets.”
Rio sur Seine
When Germany played Brazil in the 2002 World Cup final, who would French fans in Paris root for?
Brazil is Haiti’s national football team
Most national teams have 12 starting players — 11 on the field, and their fans in the stands. Brazil’s has a 13th player: Haitains.
Algeria and the Black Panthers
In the 1970s, Algiers served as refuge to African Americans who confronted US racism with force and had to flee the country. Some Panthers hijacked planes.
The Seattle Afrikan Premier League
Collecting football stories that highlight the world – the African world, in this case – and making the Seattle game global in the process.
Why Argentineans blame Messi when they lose
Argentina crashed out of the 2018 World Cup. It’s not Messi’s fault.
How I met your mother
The author relives his greatest World Cup moment.
Uruguay is playing for you
Despite what happened at the 2010 World Cup, Africans have more in common with Uruguayans.