• Laurent Dubois

Is France's World Cup championship team a bellwether for France's political future?

• Elliot Ross

The Juventus team of Ghana's Kwadwo Asamoah, Italy's Angelo Ogbonna and the French pair Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba.

• Kieran Dodds

A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.

• Sean Jacobs

Our latest Weekend Special includes a lot of football (soccer) and that the United States is “the most Africanized nation in the Western world.”