• Itamar Dubinsky

Soccer academies in Africa sprang from European club interventions with varied success, but, as examples in Ghana prove, they can be sites of local, entrepreneurial spirit.

• Phokeng Setai
• Alex Richards

Why should people be invested in a football game in a bubble called the art world? “Exhibition Match,” a multifaceted installation, explores responses to this question.

• Mark Deets

The 10th anniversary of the tragedy at Port Said passed without much notice in Egypt. Have Egyptians forgotten, or are they just trying to move on?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Thoughts on the conclusion of the 2021 African Cup of Nations.

• Lilly Havstad

The Afropolitics of one of the characters, Sam Obisanya, makes the second season of TV series "Ted Lasso" even better than the first.

• Ebony Bailey

Reflecting on the 2022 edition of the African Cup of nations, and the successes of small countries.

• William Shoki

On this episode of AIAC Talk, Will Shoki and Sean Jacobs discuss the history and politics of the African Cup of Nations football tournament.

• Matt Robertshaw

In the collective consciousness of global football, Zaire and Haiti—which both qualified for the 1974 World Cup—are remembered for their dismal performance. But is this legacy justified?

• Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara

The mafia-style control of South African football, from the Premier Soccer League on down, means a dearth of development and enduring loss for the national team.

• Mark Fredericks

South Africa failed to qualify for the 2022 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon and has failed to qualify for the World Cup since 2002. What else can their long suffering fans endure?

• William Shoki

AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.

• John Reynolds

For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game.

• Tarminder Kaur

What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.

• Peter Alegi

A new documentary about Liverpool FC striker, Sadio Mane, is watchable, but suffers from the fallacy that sports and politics don’t mix.

• Michael de Vulpillieres

Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city's working class African immigrants.

• Ronnie Close

The author of a book on football and revolution in Egypt gives us a list of must reads on football in the Middle East and North Africa.

• David Goldblatt

Football historian and broadcaster David Goldblatt’s new, encyclopedic book of football opens with a chapter on Africa. Here we republish an excerpt.

• Andrew Novak

Zimbabwe’s national football was under black control decades before independence—but the colonial legacy of racial segregation still haunts.

• Gina Lende

More and more footballers, many from Africa, are openly displaying their religious beliefs on the fields of Europe's top leagues.