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Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
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Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.
…teams in Algeria, Nigeria (to an African Nations Cup championship and World Cup qualification), Zimbabwe and

South Africa's Bafana Bafana, the hosts, has to make it out of the group stage of the 2013 African Cup of Nations for this tournament to be deemed a success.

What we learned from the third day, still deep in the first round, of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.

South Africa is hosting the African Cup of Nations, but few locals go to the stadiums. People have more important things to do than watch football?

Africa's men's national football teams have failed to improve under foreign coaches and there is nothing to suggest that this state of affairs will ever improve.

…next signing. Jesse Shipley: My favorite live player — and I write this as I watch

A political scientist, Zolberg wrote two ground breaking books on West Africa politics in the 1960s and was key to formation of African Studies.

The American public radio network, NPR, asked me, in anticipation of Nelson Mandela's birthday, to recommend 3 books its listeners could read on his life and legacy.

Only five African or African-born writers have been awarded the prize since it was first awarded in 1901: Soyinka, Mahfouz, Gordimer, Coetzee and Lessing.
…that what was happening to my brothers in Algeria and the United States had its repercussions

It is not hard to understand the iconic status of Nelson Mandela and the overflow of emotion his death has provoked in the Pan-African world.

There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.

African champions, Nigeria, go into the 2014 World Cup with the best chance of making a big impression.

The story of Africans' involvement in World War I is largely unheard of outside of academia.

Israel's arms exports to African countries has more than doubled in the last four years: African countries spent $223m on Israeli arms in 2013 compared to $107m in 2012.

The “Arab Spring” has become our reference point for revolutions in this digital age, including in Africa south of the Sahara. It's ahistorical.

Why at this late hour would The New York Times want to recycle Paul Bowles’ racist fantasies of Morocco?
…de Pacification du Cameroun (ZOPAC), and began implementing the counter-revolutionary measures, which had been theorized in

The unexpected popularity of British rock band, Dire Straits, among North Africa's Tuareg communities.