• Sonja Sugira

Shakira should acknowledge "Waka Waka" is a rip off of a Cameroonian song. Everyone knows that. Also pay the original composers.

• Sonja Sugira

Belgian photographer captures grassroots football in 30 villages across 10 countries in west and southern Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Locals after South Africa successfully hosted a global, mega-event: why can't it tackle its inequalities with the same energy and efficiency?

• Achille Mbembe
• Laurent Dubois

This plastic instrument will generate controversy where it will sound, carrying along to the new continents the singular experience that was the World Cup in South Africa.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sonja Sugira

A short film imagines what if Pele, who can claim to be the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time), scored his final international goal against Argentina, Brazil's greatest rival.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: "... a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observes that international soccer allows for “a kind of nationalism that expands as your country loses.”

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sonja Sugira

US writers about soccer beginning to display the same kinds of sports-commenter crypto racism that has been pretty standard issue in Europe for quite a while.

• Sonja Sugira

Africa is not just represented by five nations in the World Cup. Its diaspora is also here courtesy of Euro-American and South American squads.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

I am in South Africa for two weeks to see some games and soak up the atmosphere of the 2010 World Cup. I hope to keep a diary of sorts.