Eleven Named People
Sean Jacobs, Griffith Swidler, Johanna Mellis, Ivan Pech, Maher Mezahi, Marame Gueye, Chris Bolsmann, Oliver. L, Ngima MuraguriDedicated to exploring the history, culture, and politics that shape—and are shaped by—the teams and players we follow.
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Phambili
Teboho Mokoena of Bafana Bafana.
At the end of the northern spring, I left my tenured position as a full professor at The New School. I took voluntary severance. Many of my colleagues couldn’t afford to do that or decided to fight on; some...
We’re in Baltimore, Lamar
The South African men’s national rugby team, the Springboks, are in Baltimore this week for the finale of “The Greatest Rivalry” — their four-match test series against the All Blacks. The Springboks lead the series 2-1, and the decider is s...
An Embarrassment of Riches
All images by Benjamin Rasmussen’s series “Rain on Dry Earth,” 2025. Published with permission from the artist.
A few days after the final of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, the website Business of Sport reported that Cameroon’s women’...
What Kevin Keegan knew about South Africa
In July 1976, FIFA expelled the white Football Association of South Africa from the global body. Consequently, South African sides could not participate in FIFA tournaments, and teams from FIFA affiliates could not tour the country or host...
Surfing is Jazz
A fellow South African living in New York City, Stephen Coplan, alerted me to director Sandra Winther’s “A New Wave,” a short film (called an “op-doc” by the New York Times, where it first premiered on YouTube) about South African surfer Mi...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Sean Jacobs is on the faculty of The New School and is Founder-Editor of Africa is a Country. He has written about football culture for Al Jazeera, Africa Is a Country, The New York Times, The Guardian and Roads and Kingdoms, among others.
New York, NY
former D1 athlete, historian, critical sport studies scholar, podcaster, disabled, lover of colorful and patterned second-hand things.
Ivan Pech is a recent graduate from The New School For Social Research. His work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, Michigan Quarterly Review,Public Seminar, among others.
Maher Mezahi is a football journalist and host of the Africa Five-a-side podcast. Based in Algiers, he is a contributing editor for Africa Is a Country.
Marame Gueye is a soccer aficionado who teaches and researches African literary traditions, women, and migration.
South African academic based in Los Angeles. Writes on the social history of football. https://academics.csun.edu/faculty/chris.bolsmann
politics, theory, and culture.
Student, researcher and writer interested in African history, human rights and the ways political histories are preserved through everyday life.
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