• Ebony Bailey

Reflecting on the 2022 edition of the African Cup of nations, and the successes of small countries.

• Paul Veart

What if the social media conditions of 2021 existed in 1981? A group of New Zealand writers tweeted the damned 1981 Springbok rugby tour as if it was happening now.

• William Shoki

On this episode of AIAC Talk, Will Shoki and Sean Jacobs discuss the history and politics of the African Cup of Nations football tournament.

• Liam Brickhill

In November 2017, Robert Mugabe was toppled in a coup. Amid this epochal change, life—and cricket—simply went on for Zimbabweans, who are still in search of a better future.

• Michael Nassen Smith

South African cricket is currently the subject of TRC-style hearings into the racism and nepotism in the game. It makes for riveting TV, but focuses too much on individual instances of racism and discrimination.

• Matt Robertshaw

In the collective consciousness of global football, Zaire and Haiti—which both qualified for the 1974 World Cup—are remembered for their dismal performance. But is this legacy justified?

• Oliver Layman

Springbok rugby projects itself as progress, but preserves the way things are in the popular consciousness of South Africans.

• Simon Adetona Akindes
• Matthew Kirwin

A homage to a true pan-African athlete-activist, Lee Evans, who at the Olympics Games in 1968 broke the 400-meter world record and embarked on a life of political activism.

• Mark Fredericks

The British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa, in the middle of a pandemic, exposes the professional sports system for what it is.

• Mark Fredericks

Eric “Bucs” Damons existed beyond the frame of the narrow scope of the elite South African sporting narrative.

• Mark Fredericks

South Africa failed to qualify for the 2022 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon and has failed to qualify for the World Cup since 2002. What else can their long suffering fans endure?

• William Shoki

AIAC Talk this week: the historical entanglement of South African football with English football, and what that tells us about politics and sport. Watch it on our YouTube channel.

• Liam Brickhill

Trevor Madondo achieved a certain immortality in Zimbabwean cricketing lore precisely for the way in which he confronted cricket’s history as an instrument of empire.

• John Reynolds

For the peripheries and proletarians of the world—most of the world—Maradona is a symbol of defiance against the football aristocracy, corporate bosses and empire itself.

• Sean Jacobs

We discuss the legacy of Diego Maradona on this week's AIAC Talk. Tune in today at 19:00 SAST, 17:00 GMT, and 12:00 EST on Youtube, Facebook, or Twitter.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

The Liverpool striker, Sadio Mane, carries the values of his boyhood home, Bambali, with him. But his football is a product of the European professional game.

• Tarminder Kaur

What can the Senegalese Sadio Mane’s story tell us about the marketing of dreams.

• Peter Alegi

A new documentary about Liverpool FC striker, Sadio Mane, is watchable, but suffers from the fallacy that sports and politics don’t mix.

• Austin Corona

Raja Casablanca's fan clubs are well organized, politically active and occasionally violent.

• Michael de Vulpillieres

Recreational soccer in New York City offers significant social, cultural, and sometimes economic support for the city's working class African immigrants.