The Full-Back
I am still on my pre-World Cup binge. Brazil remains odds on favorites to win Africa’s
SPORTS
Chiskop
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUe83JKeXAI&w=480&h=295] In his book, “Murder in Amsterdam,” about the death of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van
The Messiah
There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.
Akon’s Africa
The Senegalese-American crooner's uninspiring "Oh Africa" reminds of bubblegum South African pop from the 1980s.
Kehinde Wiley paints African football
Wiley, known for painting black men as figures from Renaissance art, now does the same with Africa's best football talents.
The Transformation of K’naan
How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.
Rhythm like you’ve never seen
No one mixes nationalism, tourism and sport in a feel-good cocktail quite like the South African advertising industry.
The Indominable Lion
Samuel Eto'o is the official face of the 2010 World Cup. He is also the most impressive African footballer of the last decade.
You Never Walk Alone
It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.
Manufacturing controversy
The mass support for Caster Semenya among South Africans is paradoxical: of a country deeply divided, yet at certain moments strangely united around a common cause.