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The success of Belgium's national football team as a key site for political struggles over identity, race and immigration.
The success of Belgium's national football team as a key site for political struggles over identity, race and immigration.
Soccer came to Ghana with “a Jamaican educationist." That's the popular version. It's not entirely correct.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: colonial and neocolonial rule cannot survive without the work that prisons perform.
At Italia 1990, Cameroon pulled off the greatest upsets in football in the history of the World Cup--against Maradona's Argentina.
One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.
Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.
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.
In Jamaica, which is always in need of healthy distraction, football is king and everyone at heart is a Brazilian.
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.
The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, "The Poets."
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.
Collecting football stories that highlight the world – the African world, in this case – and making the Seattle game global in the process.
Argentina crashed out of the 2018 World Cup. It's not Messi's fault.
The author relives his greatest World Cup moment.
Despite what happened at the 2010 World Cup, Africans have more in common with Uruguayans.
Even VAR could not save the Africans who withered away in the first round of Russia 2018.
The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.
The author grapples with how to photograph the lives of her neighbors in a part of North East Nigeria, where Boko Haram is on a reign of terror.
In 1994, Zambia was on the cusp of qualifying for the World Cup. After a tragedy wiped out the national team it lost to bad refereeing.
A new film and how to change minds about who is at fault for Uganda’s endemic violence against women.