• Basia Cummings

Puma created new kits for African teams ahead of the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At first sight, it looks exciting. Up close, the designers stuck to conservative.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

African football is often depicted with gloom, while European football is either reduced to hooliganism or celebrated through nostalgic 'greatest hits' and childhood wonder on film.

• Elliot Ross

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

South Africa prematurely celebrating qualification to the 2012 African Cup of Nations championship is another case of history repeating itself when it comes to the administration of football in the country.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

What if major sports brands like Nike let local football stars - playing who are not big in Europe, but big in national club leagues on the continent - front a campaign?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Ivorian international and CSKA Moscow footballer, Seydou Doumbia about the hardest thing to secure in the Russian capital: It's hard to get a fade.

• Tom Devriendt

Cote d'Ivoire's newly-appointed commission counts 11 members, with footballer Didier Drogba one of them, representing the country's diaspora.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Cote d'Ivoire is Africa's best team at the moment. FIFA says so. Egypt, the current African champions, are second.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's no record that Hugh Masekela could play football. But he acted like he could kick a ball in a music video.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Laurent Dubois

France today is struggling with race because — unlike its former colonies — it never actually went through its own process of decolonization.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Peter Alegi

Isaiah Stein was a sports activist and father of footballers, Edwin (Luton Town), Brian (Luton Town and England) and Mark (Chelsea).