• Todd Cleveland

Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.

• Archie Birch

Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.

• Africa Is a Country

The story of Africa's long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Aubrey Bloomfield

In South Africa activists and sports people campaigning to isolate apartheid, declared: “No normal sport in an abnormal society.” That idea has rattled Israeli diplomats.

• Federico Arango

Football in Colombia has been, especially since the introduction of pro soccer in 1948, an uncontested panic button for those in power.

• Akin Omotoso

The filmmaker, Akin Omotoso, traveled to the 2016 NBA All Star Weekend in Toronto, Canada. This is his diary.

• Matthew Joseph Greene

Moghreb Tetouan, now back in Morocco, remains the only African club ever to hold a spot in a top-flight European football league.

• Laurent Dubois

The recent explosions in the Stade de France was one of the most surreal things to ever take place in a stadium built nearly two decades ago specifically to house history.

• Tim Fish Hodgson

White South African cricket writers should stop commenting on cricket as if the game is apolitical or the national team is still as all-white as when the country was first allowed back into international cricket.

• Olaojo Aiyegbayo

From July 1967 to January 1970, Nigeria was engaged in civil war. Apparently, one person could make the war pause: The G.O.A.T., Pelé.

• Ed Pavlić

One key to black style is the fact that, relative to white Americans, black people don’t have much room “for make believe.”

• Olaojo Aiyegbayo

In 1976, the American tennis star, Arthur Ashe, went to play in a tennis tournament in Lagos and promptly found himself in the middle of a coup by Nigeria's military.

• Akwaeke Emezi

The author writes about a fleeting encounter with the former captain of Nigeria's national football team, Sunday Oliseh.

• Akin Omotoso

A documentary film follows basketball Serge Ibaka on his return to the country of his birth, The Republic of Congo.

• Pablo Medina Uribe

Chile's 2015 Copa America win won’t heal any of the political or social issues Chile is dealing with. But that's fine.

• Mary Serumaga

Is the Confederation of African Football's president advancing the continent's football or entangling it in geopolitics that could backfire and have lasting consequences?

• Renuka Mendis

• Abraham T. Zere

The only safe thing to talk about in Eritrea, is football. Even the President watches football and is a public Arsenal fan.

• Africa Is a Country