• Sonja Sugira

A brand of football trickery and showmanship have only reaped bad results on the field for South African teams, but is also a great dance.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There's a lot of hype around Didier Drogba, including that he stopped a civil war in Cote d'Ivoire. How much truth is there to that story?

• Sonja Sugira

Hugh Masekela and his son, Sal, together explore the people, culture, landscapes and history of South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

If the criteria is the number of African players each team had on the field, you need to root for Inter Milan in the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

FIFA and the South African organizers of the World Cup unveiled the official World Cup tune: It's called "Waka Waka."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Binyavanga Wainaina and Teju Cole are among those on a panel discussing the historic 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa; the first time on the continent.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

For those doubting South African can host a successful World Cup, the country has a long history of successfully hosting big tournaments.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The Senegalese-American crooner's uninspiring "Oh Africa" reminds of bubblegum South African pop from the 1980s.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

No one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feel-good cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Samuel Eto'o is the official face of the 2010 World Cup. He is also the most impressive African footballer of the last decade.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The fantasy that local people - small businesspeople, informal traders, especially black people - will make money or get jobs during the 2010 World Cup.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.