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What do They Know of Football?: The world's game returns to the New World

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Timed to coincide with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, our second special issue explores the world’s most popular sport as a window into power, belonging, empire, nationalism, labor, and collective desire. Featuring twelve essays and features from across Africa and beyond, it asks what football can tell us about the modern world—and what the modern world can tell us about football.

(Available Monday June 8th)

  1. Football unites the world?

  2. What is the World Cup for?

  3. The last ritual

  4. The globalization of African football

  5. Kenya’s sportswashing playbook

  6. The indelible African superfan

  7. What’s in the crate?

  8. Football won’t rescue the nation

  9. Dancing in the shadows of empire

  10. Soccer and nothingness

  11. A city of games, a world out of reach

  12. How much is an athlete’s life worth?

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Revolution Deferred: 15 years of mass protest in Africa

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Africa Is a Country’s first-ever print edition explores the long cycle of mass protest over the last 15 years, using African cases not as footnotes to a global narrative, but as starting points for understanding the contradictions, ambitions, and limits of mass politics today.

  1. Africa’s last neoliberals

  2. The politics of the football terrace

  3. Somewhere over the rainbow: After Rhodes fell

  4. More loss, more damages: Africa in the Green Transition

  5. Discourse on French Colonialism in the 21st Century

  6. Madaniaao: Answering the wrong question of the Sudanese revolution

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Simon Nkoli Poster

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19 x 13 inch print of the South African gay and AIDS rights activist. Designed by Adam Cooper (aka Foreigner).

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Funmilayo Ransome Kuti Poster

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19 x 13 inch print of the Nigerian independence and women's rights activist and mother of Fela Kuti. Designed by Adam Cooper (aka Foreigner).

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Chris Hani Poster

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19 x 13 inch print of the prominent South African anti-apartheid activist and freedom fighter, who was assassinated in 1993. Designed by Adam Cooper (aka Foreigner).

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Miriam Makeba Poster

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19 x 13 inch print of the South African singer and freedom fighter. Designed by Adam Cooper (aka Foreigner).

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Thomas Sankara Poster

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19 x 13 inch print of the former revolutionary president of Burkina Faso. Designed by Adam Cooper (aka Foreigner).

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