Sunday, May 13th, 2012
Ever since Rupert Murdoch invented football in 1992 (see Fivers passim), African players from all over the continent have lit up the English Premier League and helped turn the competition into a continent-wide obsession. (Just last week, Arsene Wenger said he had been “frightened” by the intensity of Arsenal’s popularity in Nigeria and Kenya.) African
Monday, December 5th, 2011
On January 10 next year FIFA will announce its World XI 2011. The result, they remind us, will be based on voting by over 50,000 professional soccer players from around the world. “Every voting player selects one goalkeeper,...
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
The BBC debuts a new TV series this month, “Welcome to Lagos,” on the “ingenuity” of poor people in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos.The Observer‘s acting arts editor, Akin Ojumu, who is also a fan of David Cameron’s...
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
The trailer for “Football Fables” by English director Baf Akoto about the globalization of Ghanaian football.
Golden Ball
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Found Objects No. 17
8 Nov 2011 at 12:00 pm
Futbol is an African Country?
26 Jun 2010 at 9:00 am
19th New York African Film Festival...
13 Apr 2012 at 5:29 pm
We are all Senegalese
24 Apr 2012 at 11:41 am
When Rick Ross filmed a music video...
21 Sep 2012 at 4:00 am
Stealing into Canada under the cove...
4 Feb 2013 at 12:00 pm
The Branson Biennale for Morocco
19 Mar 2012 at 3:00 am
The Invisible Christians of #Kony20...
13 Mar 2012 at 9:00 am
