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Dawson McCall is a professor of history at Loyola University, New Orleans, where he teaches courses on the histories of Africa, African sports, and African diasporas.
The refusal of the US government to admit Somali referee Omar Artan is a reminder that the United States has a long history of using sports as a tool of exclusion, especially when it comes to African and African-descended athletes.
From the colonial classroom to today’s exam halls, student strikes in Kenya are less outbursts than acts of political imagination — insisting that schools live up to their promise of justice and transformation.
The successes of elite Kenyan athletes should not distract from the ways ordinary Kenyans are using it to make meaning for themselves.
The positive reactions of Africans to Morocco’s performance at the World Cup are not outliers. Sport has often challenged outsiders' view of Africa's regions as disparate and disconnected.