• Brahim El Guabli

In Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity.

• Garhe Osiebe

The Super Eagles don’t suffer from a shortage of talent, but represent a country unwilling to admit that greatness is not a birthright.

• Maher Mezahi

Distanced at club level, and scrutinized at home, there is no player with more to prove at this Africa Cup of Nations than Mohamed Salah.

• Njabulo Ngidi

Bafana Bafana’s resurgence has been forged where South African football always lives—between brilliance and the bizarre.

• Maher Mezahi

An African Cup of Nations at home for red hot Morocco is a chance to put past trauma aside and charge on to the world stage.

• William Shoki

This year, instead of taking a publishing break, we will be covering the African Cup of Nations. To transition, we consider why football still matters in an era of enclosure, mediated presence, and thinning publics.

• Alasdair Howorth

When Cabo Verde qualified for the World Cup, celebrations erupted from Praia to Rotterdam. The Blue Sharks’ rise shows how a scattered people built a global team rooted in home.

• Lee Nxumalo

Delayed, underfunded, and undermined, this year’s Women’s Africa Cup of Nations has exposed not just neglect but active sabotage from CAF and national federations.

• Maher Mezahi

A new season of the African Five-a-side podcast asks, “what is the greatest match in the history of men's African football?”

• Harlem Lamine

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.

• Lee Nxumalo

From trans bans to racial exclusion, the hard-won gains made in women’s football are being rolled back under the guise of protecting women.

• Maher Mezahi

On the eve of the kick off of FIFA's newest major tournament, we wonder, who is the Club World Cup for?

• Bassil Mikdadi

While FIFA swiftly banned Russia from competition, it continues to delay action on Israel—revealing the politics behind football’s so-called neutrality.

• Maher Mezahi

AFCON doesn’t need European validation to be major—it already is. But the real danger lies in how dismissive narratives shape the value of African football and its players.

• Lee Nxumalo

Gianni Infantino isn’t just another corrupt FIFA president—his greed, self-importance, and political alliances are actively ruining football.

• Lee Nxumalo

The #MeToo movement exposed abuses across industries, yet men’s football remains resistant to accountability, protecting predators and sidelining survivors.

• Denise Zaneza

The world is slowly opening its eyes to how Paul Kagame’s regime abuses human rights, suppresses dissent, and exploits neighboring countries.

• Lee Nxumalo

Select success stories obscure the intentional underdevelopment of women’s football in Africa.

• Fiifi Anaman

It happened in 1969. But just how did he world’s greatest, richest and most sought-after footballer at the time, end up in Ghana?

• Maher Mezahi

At the Euros, the French national football team isn’t talking about football, but the threat posed by a resurgent, xenophobic right-wing in Europe.