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11 Questions for Franca Roibal
Franca Roibal in her Uruguay and Knicks kits (Images Supplied).
I first met Franca Roibal as a co-panelist at a Democratic Socialists of America forum on the 2026 World Cup at the People’s Forum in Midtown Manhattan in June. As it became c...
Baseball’s “Affordability Crisis”
In 1984, the National Basketball League became the first major professional sports league in the United States to introduce a salary cap. The salary cap limited NBA teams to spending only $3.6 million on players for that given year. The sal...
Culture Club: Colo-Colo
Few people outside Chile and the Southern Cone of South America would care about Colo-Colo, a club based in Chile’s capital, Santiago. That is, until Josimar José Évora Días, better known as Vozinha, goalkeeper for the Cape Verde national t...
11 Questions for Peter Alegi
Peter Alegi sporting a makarapa, which originated among mine workers.
Peter Alegi’s social media handle is “futbolprof.” He helped midwife African Sports Studies, particularly the study of African football, in his two books: one on the ve...
The Stadium Project
Mmabatho Stadium, All images by Mpho Moshe Matheolane
This edited excerpt is republished with the permission of The Funambulist. The full version appeared in Issue No. 65, “Fifty Years After Soweto.”
On 27 April 1994, Bophuthatswan...
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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 athlete, historian, critical sport studies scholar, podcaster, love 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.
Gerard Akindes is an international sports management faculty and consultant. He is adjunct faculty at Northwestern University, Qatar, and New York University in New York.
Ron Krabill is Director of the Global Sport Lab at UW Seattle and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at UW Bothell. He is a scholar of media, politics, cultural studies, global football, international education, and human rights.
Lucas Souza is a Fulbright Scholar doing research and teaching English in Maputo, Mozambique and was a Boren Scholar in Senegal. Lucas earned a B.A. at GWU and has experience in Africa-focused roles, with aspirations to work in diplomacy.
Interested in people...especially their inconsistencies and contradictions.
Matthew Kirwin is a Professorial Lecturer at the Elliott School at George Washington University. He has a PhD in Political Science from Michigan State University, was a Fulbright Fellow in Burkina Faso. He is a member of SportsAfrica.
Leo Jacobs is a high school student who plays football, also enjoys writing and long walks on the beach.
Pavandeep is the managing editor of World Cup: The Syllabus. He completed an MA degree at the University of Washington in 2026 as a Fulbright Scholar.
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Neo is a writer, researcher and editor from South Africa working at the intersection of art, architecture and related topics.
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