The darlings of the continent
While fans of Ghana’s Black Stars are confident in the 2013 team’s skills, until this team is able to win a major victory, a sense of historical foreboding will weigh on them.
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Ladan Osman
Ladan Osman is the author of Exiles of Eden (2019) and The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony (2015). She lives in Brooklyn.
Afcon 2013 Preview: Bamako expects experienced Mali team to go far
Guest Post by Samira Sawlani* We won’t be surprised if Malians don’t care much for football
A team of quality players
Even if Morrocco does not get pass the first round of the 2013 African Cup of Nations, we should be happy that at least we qualified for the tournament.
Cape Verde’s Blue Sharks make a big splash
The national football team’s oach Lúcio Antunes: “We respect all our opponents but we are not afraid of anyone.”
Friday Bonus Music Break, N°30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4bYGpOWoQ4 Let's start our weekly round-ups of new music videos this year with some bangers. Representing
The Boys are doing it
South Africa’s Bafana Bafana, the hosts, has to make it out of the group stage of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for this tournament to be deemed a success.
Race politics in Ghana
Historian Jemima Pierre argues that Whiteness serves as a reference point for Ghanaians’ notions of beauty, Blackness, and power, but Ghanaians remain blind to this.
When Wikipedia writes Malawi’s national history
John Chilembwe is Malawi’s first great anti-colonial hero. Why do our media outlets mainly rely on Wikipedia to give us “facts” about him?
African Lookbook
This website thinks it can combine ideas about Africa with shopping. Sean Jacobs interviewed one of the founders of African Lookbook, Aaron Kohn.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles are back
The writer is cautiously optimistic (for once) that Nigeria will win its third Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.
Our African Cup of Nations 2013 predictions
So first we gave you the back story. Now here's our official predictions for the African
Yoruba Cool
Africa is everywhere on “Landing on a Hundred,” the new album by American guitarist and singer, Cody ChesnuTT. It’s in the instrumentation, the arrangements and in his voice.
Key and Peele Unchained
Sean has blogged here before about the American sketch comedy duo Key and Peele. Around the same time
A Very Short History of the Africa Cup of Nations
The big kick-off is nearly upon us. Just 11 months after that extraordinary Zambian triumph in
Futbol Is a Country
We want to present a more global, postcolonial (for want for a better word) take on world football.
What kind of home is the “Home Office” anyway?
Why do they call it the Home Office, when that agency dedicates its resources to expelling,
The ‘Promised Land’ in Mozambique
Gregor Zielke’s photos capture a coal mining company’s broken promises to a Mozambican community, but also the communities’ resilience.
To hear musicians breathe
An ode to The Mahogany Room, the pre-eminent live jazz venue in Cape Town, South Africa.
Eggs and omelettes
The existence of African billionaires are not positive evidence of “Africa rising,” but testament to the extreme inequality characterizing economic growth on the continent.
God is a profitable and deadly business in Angola
In post-socialist, growth-oriented Angola, the rich are getting richer and the poor have only their faith.