An African team in the World Cup semi-finals?
African champions, Nigeria, go into the 2014 World Cup with the best chance of making a big impression.
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Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #3
Episode 3 of Africa is a Country Radio is live on Groovalizacion and the AIAC Mixcloud
A brief history of Nigeria’s Super Eagles
There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.
Friendship Forever
China is building new football stadiums in Africa. If its “agenda” of stadium diplomacy has been concealed, it hasn’t really been hidden very far from view.
Boxing lesson
Our video department went to train at the Hillbrow Boxing Club in downtown Johannesburg.
Cricket in America
The chance to place cricket fully in its poco setting – beyond its boundary – and to understand it as a form of political contestation.
Ruud Gullit and the Struggle for South African Freedom
When Gullit won the Ballon d’Or in 1987, he dedicated the award to the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; then made a reggae song about Apartheid.
Finding the Afro- in Brazil
Last week I wrote a post about my excitement around the African musical permutations I was
The Tragedy of Justin Fashanu
An insight into the openly racist and homophobic atmosphere that passed for public life in Margaret Thatcher's England.
Give that man a Bells
There’s a commercial for Bell’s, a popular South African whisky (“Give that man a Bells”), that
The “Apartheid-era Robin Hood”
I wrote a long piece on Zola Mahobe, a Soweto businessman who died last December (two
Boss Player
The Newscaster Komla Dumor loved sports, basketball (he had skills), and, above all, the beautiful game. He especially loved his Ghana's Black Stars.
Somalis on Ice
"Unlikely Sports Heroes" partially serves to reinforce the image of inferiority. They never actually win anything.
The Black Manager
Can you name at least ten at least 10 black football managers who are in charge of club teams in the top leagues; and by top, we mean Europe.
The Black Panther
Before Eusebio, it was unthinkable for a European national team to be dominated by or build around players of African origin.
Lilian Thuram’s burden
Why should black players have the burden of calling out racism, while white players don't feel compelled to do the same?
Nkrumah’s team is going to the World Cup
A short history of football, nation building and the consolidation of pan-African solidarity in 1960s Ghana.
The Big Boss
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.
If This Is Banter
The Newcastle United defender, Steven Taylor, is another no-nonsense (racist) English centre-half.
Hollywood Pelé
The news that a major studio is bankrolling a film about the Brazilian Pele, contender for greatest player of all time.