Eleven Named People
Sean Jacobs, Griffith Swidler, Johanna Mellis, Ivan Pech, Mpho M Matheolane, Neo Maditla, Maher Mezahi, Marame GueyeDedicated to exploring the history, culture, and politics that shape—and are shaped by—the teams and players we follow.
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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...
Serve the Music
Kesivan Naidoo performing at Jazzwerkstatt Bern in 2018. (Image: Palma Fiacco, via Wikimedia Commons.)
Kesivan Naidoo grew up in a township in East London, now KuGompo City, in the 1980s and early 1990s, surrounded by his mother, uncles, a...
11 Questions for Priyansh
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The academic, writer, and podcaster Priyansh is a doctoral candidate in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada. This week, he answers my 11 Questions. His writing focuses on the interse...
Culture Club: Olympia
In February 2020, Emmanuel Adebayor became the highest-paid player in the history of Paraguayan football when he signed for Club Olimpia. He stayed for five months, played just four matches, and scored no goals before he and the club agreed...
How cisgender men rig the women’s game
Still from “Ladybugs.”
I was finishing up a social media post to analyze my rewatch of the 1992 sports comedy film “Ladybugs,” starring Rodney Dangerfield, when cisgender male former professional basketball players Enes Kanter Freedom and...
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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.
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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.
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Neo is a writer, researcher and editor from South Africa working at the intersection of art, architecture and design.
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.
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