• Kieran Dodds

A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.

• Lolade Adewuyi

Stephen Keshi’s success as Nigeria's national men's soccer team coach, will perhaps encourage more African countries to look closer to home for coaching salvation.

• Kieran Dodds

The Newcastle United defender, Steven Taylor, is another no-nonsense (racist) English centre-half.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The news that a major studio is bankrolling a film about the Brazilian Pele, contender for greatest player of all time.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The decision by Spain's national football team to go play a football friendly in its former colony, Equatorial Guinea, has spotlighted how the latter country is run.

• Pablo Mediavilla Costa

Eqatorial Guinea in West Africa was a Spanish colony. Few Spanish football fans know where it is or how the rulers continue the violent politics inherited from Spain.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How much of Equatorial Guinean's tax money did the Obiangs pay to the Spanish FA for a meaningless match between its national teams?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Elliot Ross

European football officials may have missed it, but Palestine already scored several goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League.

• Lloyd Gedye

The writer, Lloyd Gedye, can handle most things, but the mischaracterization of attempts to deracialize the Springbok rugby team, made his blood boil.

• Elliot Ross

• Africa Is a Country

Bob Hewitt migrated from Australia to apartheid South Africa. There he became a champion in white tennis. He is also accused of abusing children whose families trusted him as their tennis coach.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Elliot Ross

The first of our weekly posts on football’s goings-on, focusing on the politics of money, identity, and the power struggles shaping the game.

• Niren Tolsi

Hashim Amla’s appearances on the cricket pitch and its meaning, reflects similarly on South Africa’s own, ongoing, liberation struggle.

• Davy Lane

S'manga Khumalo is the first black jockey to win South Africa's richest horse race.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The book, "Africa’s World Cup," is a valuable source for thinking more deeply about the meanings and legacies of the 2010 edition of the competition hosted in South Africa.

• Laurent Dubois

Preparations for the 2014 World Cup have served as a trigger for what may become a major political and social movement in Brazil.

• Percy Zvomuya

A meditation on left footed footballers, especially wingers, given the conventional wisdom that lefties are always useful to have in a match.

• Tom Devriendt