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Africa is a Country’s Twitter World Cup

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Africa is a Country’s Twitter World Cup

By
Sean Henry Jacobs

You can follow us as well as some of our writers - particularly Sonja, Sean and Herman - on Twitter.

Ronaldo scores for Brazil vs Germany in the final of the 2002 World Cup.

The World Cup is three days away, so everybody is writing, blogging, speaking, filming, and broadcasting from or about Africa (well, specifically South Africa, but that does not stop them from making generalizations about 53 countries and territories). Of course, things will calm down—we know this — in a few days when the media realizes that hosting a World Cup is a day’s work for Africans. But until then, they’re relentless.

We can try but can’t keep up with them by giving you long, nuanced, detailed posts. We have things to do, day jobs to attend, World Cup matches to watch (especially this), and sometimes we have small children to put to bed.

Ghana, who has qualified for the World Cup in South Africa, playing the Czech Republic in the 2006 World Cup in Germany (Wiki Commons).

But we can do a lot more on the fly in 140 characters.

You can follow us or Sonja, Sean and Herman on Twitter.

 

Further Reading

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.