Derek Pardue

The rap music of Z'Africa Brasil — composed of rappers Gaspar and Funk Biu, DJ Tano and producer Pitchô.

Boima Tucker

Day nine of our Rio correspondent's World Cup diary wonders who the tournament is for and what the protesters demand.

Vik Sohonie

The fate of World Cup draws has fostered an unlikely rivalry between Ghana and the United States.

Achal Prabhala

Why did Neymar — the one time he was asked about discrimination — respond: “Never, neither inside nor outside the field. Because, I’m not black, right?”

Karen Attiah

Every four years, this Ghanaian-American writer has to brace herself for the predictable slew of American media reporting about Ghana.

Boima Tucker

Boima Tucker

Boima Tucker

Africa Is a Country

African champions, Nigeria, go into the 2014 World Cup with the best chance of making a big impression.

Africa Is a Country

Cheta Nwanze

There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.

Elliot Ross

China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.

Leila Dee Dougan

Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.

Jeremy Weate

The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.

Kieran Dodds

When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.

Boima Tucker

Elliot Ross

An insight into the openly racist and homophobic atmosphere that passed for public life in Margaret Thatcher's England.

Sean Henry Jacobs

Sean Henry Jacobs

Sean Henry Jacobs

The Newscaster Komla Dumor loved sports, basketball (he had skills), and, above all, the beautiful game. He especially loved his Ghana's Black Stars.