Uruguay is playing for you
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The knock came at four in morning on Sunday, April 15, 1984. Dr. Vladimir Roslik of
Uruguay is playing for you
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The knock came at four in morning on Sunday, April 15, 1984. Dr. Vladimir Roslik of
A World Cup for the people
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The Africans, already underrepresented, withered away during the Group stage. Even VAR, invented to clean up the game, could not save Nigeria.
Nigerian players at the end of their team’s 2-1 loss to Argentina.
The FIFA World Cup of neo-liberalism is living up to its expectations What is it that dampened my enthusiasm about the FIFA World Cup? I need more and more time and money to follow the game as it is getting out of reach, being standardized, sanitized, and controlled by a few for global consumption. Tickets and travel cost more; TV the same, with increased fees under the guise of customization. Probably not just one thing. I watch the same players all year round. The media hype them up and raise our (...)
David Goldblatt 1930-2018
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The South African photographer David Goldblatt has left us. Like many others, I’ve paused to mourn
The contradictions of Boko Haram
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The abduction of 276 schoolgirls at Chibok in April 2014 may have struck outsiders as a
The contradictions of Book Haram
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The abduction of 276 schoolgirls at Chibok in April 2014 may have struck outsiders as a
The Football Griot
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In the early 1950s, a Senegalese radio announcer known as Allou developed a style of match
The Language of the Game
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In the early 1950s, a Senegalese radio announcer known as Allou developed a style of match
“Faking” for democracy
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“Fake” gets a bad rep these days and for good reasons. Fake news have been deployed
Bishops, imams, sangomas, pastors and ending abuse
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In the past decade, the role of religious leaders has been publicly challenged by human rights
What Else Is There?
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From the day that Boko Haram decided to attack a prison gate in Maiduguri, Borno State,
Ghetto defendants
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So far, so so: France’s journey to the World Cup was not without worry, and pre-World
The lessons from Zimbabwe’s land reform for its neighbors
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There is a curious relationship between land, politics and elections in southern Africa. There is little
That one time Zambia nearly qualified for the World Cup
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Zambia is not at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, having finished a distant second behind
Of Zambia, Morocco, Diramba and the World Cup
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Zambia is not at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, having finished a distant second behind
Uganda—a culture that puts women at risk of great violence
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Kemiyondo Coutinho, a young Ugandan actress raised in Swaziland, began creating her own roles with “Jabulile,”
Soul brother Krishna
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The Nuyorican Cafe on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has shown all the plays in Ishmael Reed’s
Living for the ball
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I have an interesting relationship with football. With all my passion and love for the game,
Being coloured and Indian in South Africa after apartheid
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Three recent controversies have brought to the attention of many a politics often submerged by the imperatives
‘Any way possible’
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A Kenyan football fan reflects on a lifetime of World Cup finals.
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1986 World Cup Finals I was only 4 years old during the 1986 World Cup finals. I don’t have many memories of this particular World Cup except my dad and my uncle’s animated conversations about the infamous “hand of god” goal by Maradona. My father, a very idealistic young university graduate, had moved with my mother to a rural high school in western Kenya, where he taught history to high school students. My mother taught English. They brought a 14-inch black and white television that would turn our house into a major community sports center during World Cup finals. I would later learn from my father that ours was the only (...)
It’s time to end the CFA franc
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The CFA franc, originally the Franc de la Communauté Financière africaine, is an instrument of monetary and financial domination formally