Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
Acting on a tip from an Ivorian diplomat on the best location to watch Les Éléphants play in NYC, we headed up to Harlem to catch the Côte d’Ivoire–Tunisia match early Saturday morning. New Ivoire is a 17-year-old, 24-hour restaurant on 119th street in a growing West African area of Harlem that is both frequented and owned
Friday, January 25th, 2013
On a recent trip to Johannesburg (which is in Gauteng Province), a couple of friends decided to invade a Congolese restaurant in Yeoville; Kin Malebo on 31 Raleigh Street in Yeoville. The game was between DR Congo...
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Ethiopia’s wily head coach Sewnet Bishaw turned this game with a substitution on 64′, bringing on Addis Hintsa in central midfield. It was Hintsa’s through-ball that opened up the Zambian defence, which four minutes earlier had been...
Monday, November 19th, 2012
Last week, before a rugby test match between France and Australia in Marseille, as the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” began playing, Kinshasa-born rugby player Yannick Nyanga began sobbing uncontrollably. It went viral. Nyanga then...
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
We British like nothing more than a nice inquiry. The exorbitant jail terms meted out to last year’s rioters (whether actual or merely theoretical) are commonly supposed to have been a great disappointment to us all, a sad sign of...
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
“Why the f**k did he not do that at West Ham!!!” reads a YouTube comment in response to the video clip above featuring Benni McCarthy’s superb free kick in the 2011 Telkom Cup quarterfinal between Orlando Pirates...
‘White Music for Black People’*
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These People Have Been Contacted
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Postcard from Jo’burg
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Bono’s Big Ideas (for Africa of cou...
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Why France doesn’t want to let Amin...
30 Apr 2013 at 3:00 am
Here’s what some South African arti...
15 Feb 2013 at 3:00 am
France in Mali: the End of the Fair...
14 Jan 2013 at 2:00 pm
Mali’s coup — ‘Politics is bad’
27 Mar 2012 at 12:00 am
