• Derek Pardue

The rap music of Z'Africa Brasil — composed of rappers Gaspar and Funk Biu, DJ Tano and producer Pitchô.

• Boima Tucker

Day nine of our Rio correspondent's World Cup diary wonders who the tournament is for and what the protesters demand.

• Vik Sohonie

The fate of World Cup draws has fostered an unlikely rivalry between Ghana and the United States.

• Karen Attiah

Every four years, this Ghanaian-American writer has to brace herself for the predictable slew of American media reporting about Ghana.

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Boima Tucker

• Africa Is a Country

• Cheta Nwanze

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

• Boima Tucker

• Lolade Adewuyi

Stephen Keshi’s success as Nigeria's national men's soccer team coach, will perhaps encourage more African countries to look closer to home for coaching salvation.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The news that a major studio is bankrolling a film about the Brazilian Pele, contender for greatest player of all time.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How much of Equatorial Guinean's tax money did the Obiangs pay to the Spanish FA for a meaningless match between its national teams?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The book, "Africa’s World Cup," is a valuable source for thinking more deeply about the meanings and legacies of the 2010 edition of the competition hosted in South Africa.

• Laurent Dubois

Preparations for the 2014 World Cup have served as a trigger for what may become a major political and social movement in Brazil.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Black South Africans' concurrent lives of dread and poverty contradicted the commercialism and profits that went with 2010 World Cup.

• Elliot Ross

Tunde Kelani's "Maami," a tale about a former professional footballer, is bold and stylish film-making, and it deserves  a wide audience.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs