Eleven Named People
Sean Jacobs, Tony Karon, Ivan Pech, Anna Olimpia de Moura Leite, Emma Jehle, Abubakar Muhammad, Gerard A. Akindes, Abraham Zere, Jules BoykoffDedicated to exploring the history, culture, and politics that shape—and are shaped by—the teams and players we follow.
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Temporary Autonomy
In the realm of formal politics, many Egyptians have long felt uncertain and disillusioned. Political leadership has often been characterized by limited options for meaningful representation, with state actors prioritizing their own power o...
If you know where you're coming from
The Cape Town director and writer Adrian van Wyk, now studying cultural politics at a Brazilian university, makes decolonial films that listen closely to history and let the archive speak. His debut feature, “What The Soil Remembers,” a col...
Arsenal FC: The Premier League’s Black and African Club
The English Premier League and British football hardly featured notable African players before Arsene Wenger arrived as manager of Arsenal F.C. in 1996. The few high-profile exceptions were Tony Yeboah and Lucas Radebe at Leeds United F.C....
Take Me to Your Leader, No. 1: Kylian Mbappe
On May 14th, the French Football Federation announced its 2026 World Cup squad. Despite turmoil at Kylian Mbappé’s club, Real Madrid, where he is blamed for the dysfunction on the field and behind the scenes, he retained the French captain’...
Category Four
Unlike previous editions, the 2026 World Cup will unfold amid millions of immigrants from countries where football is woven into daily life. The irony is bitter: the World Cup has never been so close, yet never so inaccessible.
Hours spent...
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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.
Pessimist of the intellect, optimist of the will. Editorial lead at AJ+. Views are my own, not those of my employer.
Ivan Pech is a recent graduate from The New School For Social Research. His work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, Public Seminar, among others.
Anna is a PhD student at The New School for Social Research and a Director at LCA Consultores in Brazil. She is interested about the intersection of economics, culture, and football.
gender. sports. politics.
Graduate student at the department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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.
US-based writer and journalist whose work has been published in Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, Index on Censorship Magazine, Dissent Magazine, among others.
Jules Boykoff is the author of "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine" (OR Books, 2026) and "Kicking," a memoir (Duke University Press, 2026). He teaches political science at Pacific University.
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