• Stephen Coplan

South Africa's national rugby team, the Springboks, gets a black captain for the first time in its history--24 years after the end of Apartheid.

• Sarah El-Shaarawi
• Sean Henry Jacobs

Sergio Ramos' injury to Mohamed Salah in the 2018 UEFA Champion's League final set him up for a world of insults from Egyptian football fans.

• Stephen Coplan

Why would a group of black, mostly coloured, South African rugby supporters openly root for New Zealand teams over their own.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

AC Milan, who wants to build an academy in occupied Western Sahara, is not alone in legitimizing Morocco’s occupation.

• Chika Unigwe

For the Star Boys, a West-African performance collective based in Antwerp, Belgium, the dream of playing professional football in Europe found its revival in theatre.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Aubrey Bloomfield

A film about the separate, and often connected, journeys of two Somali footballers, also refugees, to make it as footballers.

• Shaista Amod
• Tim Fish Hodgson

The systemic challenges faced by black South Africans in even getting onto the field to play cricket in the first place.

• Harry Stopes

The story of Algeria's brilliant, and heroic, footballers who played for independence.

• Ashwin Desai

First class cricket in South Africa, once a white man's preserve, is now technically open to all, but it is a game of money, dazzle, dancing girls and quick results.

• Uri Levy

The image of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, descending alone from the field after Gabon was knocked out of AFCON 2017 game, tells the whole story of Gabon's malaise.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

An Australian sports apparel company makes shirts for low profile national soccer teams, including a number of African ones.

• Aubrey Bloomfield

Diego Maradona makes excuses for Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara.

• Laurent Dubois

Drogba became one of the most famous footballers of his generation thanks to his time at Chelsea, but he never won a major tournament for his national team.

• Chris Bolsmann

Next time 'Die Stem' part of the South African anthem plays, the appropriate reaction is to sit down or take a knee.

• Todd Cleveland

With the passing of the legendary Mozambican-born Eusébio in 2014, Ronaldo is now the undisputed face of Portuguese soccer.

• Oumar Ba

The highlights of the 2016 Rio Olympics, including why Kenyan athletes were not wearing matching outfits at the opening ceremony.

• Todd Cleveland

Or how Africa won Euro 2016 for Portugal.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Muhammad Ali's political life was like his boxing career: as frustrating and contradictory as it was principled and selfless.

• Archie Birch

Imagine the exposed position black players were in English football in the 1960s: the only black man in the stadium, never mind on the field.

• Africa Is a Country

The story of Africa's long-distance love affair with English football, told by fans in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya & DR Congo.