‘Any way possible’
A Kenyan football fan reflects on a lifetime of World Cup finals.
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Sheila Adufutse
Sheila Adufutse is a feminist activist and trained as a project manager.
It’s time to end the CFA franc
For France’s former colonies in Africa to enjoy true independence, they need to control over their own money and budgets.
When Cameroon’s players convinced themselves they could not win
The reason why African teams struggle in the World Cup has everything to do with colonialism.
Why hasn’t an African nation won the World Cup
When African football officials stop being corrupt and identify and develop young talent, an African nation would have a real chance of winning the World Cup.
Senegal’s jersey
The Senegalese football jersey is a powerful symbol of nationhood and independence.
Senegalese pitch dreams
Football in Senegal is magic. That the team has qualified for their second World Cup, heightens the joy.
Imagining the South African Indian
How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?
France ’98 and a genuine moment of Maghrebi solidarity
Tunisia played England in France ’98. English hooligans attacked Tunisians in the streets of Marseille. Algerians came to Tunisians’ rescue.
The descent of our fathers
A remembrance for Father’s Day.
Ghana didn’t qualify for the World Cup, so which African team do I support?
One Ghanaian football fan wrestles with which teams to support in this year’s World Cup after the Black Stars failed to qualify.
Giant Russian dolls in Egyptian national team jerseys
Reflections on World Cup fever from Cairo and my Canadian immigrant father’s Egyptian football nationalism.
Game of Chicken
Reliving the epic quarterfinal match between reigning European football champions, France, and 1983 Copa America runners-up, Brazil, at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
The beautiful month
We are exploring the culture and history of the World Cup for the next month while the tournament goes on.
Reconsidering France’s role in the Rwandan genocide
It is worth revisiting the context for the mass killings, how historians have studied it since and casting a revisionist eye.
Who gets to define borders?
What will the renewed land debate in South Africa mean for the border woes of neighbors such as Lesotho?
Cameroon on the brink
Paul Biya’s inability to address the crisis in the country’s Anglophone region is pushing the nation to the brink.
Captain Kolisi
South Africa’s national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history–24 years after the end of Apartheid.
The Ebola refugees
Has migration policy reckoned with epidemics like Ebola?
Apo Six, Forever
A reflection on police brutality in Nigeria on the anniversary of the death of the ‘Apo Six.’
This is Nigeria
A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz’s take on Childish Gambino’s viral “This Is America.”