What Would a World Cup Win for France Mean in the French Caribbean?
A possible French victory hovers like a thin layer of hope that barely veils the simmering anger at France’s neglect of the islands and pessimism about the future.
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Nathan Chiume
Nathan Chiume is an Africa analyst and consultant.
Nigeria’s World Cup Adventure is Over: Do We Still Love Her?
Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.
The new anti-migrant national consensus
Italian politics has taken a sharp turn to the right. Migrants, especially African ones, bear the brunt of their rhetoric. Its ground zero for a new rightwing politics.
The masters of the improbable
In 1982, Reinaldo, a striker prone to making black power salutes, was left out out of Brazil’s World Cup squad.
Ibrahim Usman’s road to Qatar
Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.
Dambisa Moyo is wrong about the global economy – here’s why
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe.
The Coming-Out of the African Same-Sex Novel
Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we’re witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.
#TousEnsemble
The success of Belgium’s national football team as a key site for political struggles over identity, race and immigration.
Cette équipe tue les fascistes
en ce moment, le plus français de tous les français est un gamin noir d’origine algérienne et camerounaise nommé Kylian Mbappé.
The Pan-Africanist roots of football in Ghana
Soccer came to Ghana with “a Jamaican educationist.” That’s the popular version. It’s not entirely correct.
The Rise Neoliberalism in Ghana
To address high unemployment in Ghana, “labor experts” foolishly present volunteerism as the way out of poverty and joblessness.
No Country for Yes Men
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: colonial and neocolonial rule cannot survive without the work that prisons perform.
The Gall of the West–On State Visits to Nigeria
Emmanuel Macron’s Lagos visit came and went in a long tradition of diversionary state visits by Western politicians who condescend to Nigerians.
Fear of a Black France
You want to troll French fascists? Tell them the truth: the most French man in the world right now is a black kid called Kylian Mbappé.
The Header that Rocked the World
At Italia 1990, Cameroon pulled off the greatest upsets in football in the history of the World Cup–against Maradona’s Argentina.
BaGhana BaGhana
One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.
Not Socrates’ Brazil
Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.
#MeToo, Africa and the politics of transnational activism
Would white women in the US have supported #MeToo in the same way if it had been started by women elsewhere in the world?
The search for football talent in Africa
Two of Africa’s standout talents at Russia 2018–Moussa Wague and Francis Uzoho–were shaped by a football academy in Qatar. A new book tells that story.
Brazil is an Island
In Jamaica, which is always in need of healthy distraction, football is king and everyone at heart is a Brazilian.