SPORTS
Cricket is big in Nigeria
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
Traffic Report
Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.
Streets is Watching
Shakira should acknowledge "Waka Waka" is a rip off of a Cameroonian song. Everyone knows that. Also pay the original composers.
Simple Football
Belgian photographer captures grassroots football in 30 villages across 10 countries in west and southern Africa.
The Day After
Locals after South Africa successfully hosted a global, mega-event: why can't it tackle its inequalities with the same energy and efficiency?
Everyone Gets a Vuvuzela
This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.
Obrigado, Pelé
A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil's greatest rival.
El Negrito
Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: " . . . a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body."
Who will play George Weah?
A biopic on the life of Liberian football legend George Weah, a star at PSG and AC Milan and Ballon d'Or in 1995. One question is which actor will get to play the lead role. Idris Elba, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Djimon Honsou and Chiwetel Ejiofor are all good candidates.
The World Cup and Pan-Africanism
In soccer tournaments like the World Cup organized around nations, your nationalism expands as your nation gets knocked out.
The Ugly American
US writers about soccer beginning to display the same kinds of sports-commenter crypto racism that has been pretty standard issue in Europe for quite a while.
Pitch Perfect Friday
Africa is not just represented by five nations in the World Cup. Its diaspora is also here courtesy of Euro-American and South American squads.