'Slavery, The Game'
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJMzeQicAh8&w=600&=369] While watching out for Fifa 12, I got distracted by this Youtube “commercial” for another
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Hugh Masekela’s Football Skills
There's no record that Hugh Masekela could play football. But he acted like he could kick a ball in a music video.
Magnificent
Earlier this week ESPN won seven Sports Emmy Awards, including one for music during the 2010
The Whites-Only French
France today is struggling with race because — unlike its former colonies — it never actually went through its own process of decolonization.
No Comment
There’s a labor dispute between the NFL, which runs American football, and players (the fight is
The Beautiful Game
Correction: You don’t have to be a football fanatic, be a supporter of the English Premier
'Africa's First World Cup' Revisited
We’re allowed to talk about the 2010 World Cup until 2014. Later today our man, historian
Photography: Yamandú Roos
Security Guard, World Cup, 2010, Soweto, South Africa.
Black Diamond(s)
[vodpod id=Video.5523753&w=500&h=411&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Ffr.player-feed.previewnetworks.com%2Fv3.1%2Fcinema%2F5444%2F331100125-1%2F] Director Pascale Lamche’s got some help from Peter Mukurube (that’s him putting Sepp Blatter
A Lion in Winter
Isaiah Stein was a sports activist and father of footballers, Edwin (Luton Town), Brian (Luton Town and England) and Mark (Chelsea).
South Africa’s Glorious Moment
it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.
Shameless Self Promotion: World Cup edition
Look out for a a special issue of African Journalism Studies on “The Fifa World Cup 2010
Giant Killers
[The wealthy Congolese club and current African Champions League cup holders] TP Mazembe Englebert have produced
Moçambique Popular
Long before football blogging became commonplace and banal, Davy Lane wrote about football politics as a fan. Brilliantly.
Own Goal
By Peter Alegi In a few hours WikiLeaks will release thousands of secret FIFA documents detailing
'Afropolis'
This photograph of Soccer City, the venue for the opening and closing games of the 2010
In My Country
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKLxfP3xju0&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Since we’re on the topic of Cote d’Ivoire, here’s Ivoirian veteran underground rapper Manusa’s “Dans
Cricket is big in Nigeria
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
Traffic Report
Ahead of every World Cup or Olympics, sensational media reports of sex trafficking and prostitution are never borne out by facts.
G'day Mate
“The thing that overwhelms most is the level of professionalism of native Africans in knowing how