Cabo Verde’s national team is at the World Cup for the first time in their history. To understand why they might surprise everyone, you need to understand morabeza. africasacountry.com/2026/06/no-s...

The refusal of the US government to admit Somali referee Omar Artan is a reminder that the United States has a long history of using sports as a tool of exclusion, especially when it comes to African and African-descended athletes. africasacountry.com/2026/06/cont...

The leaders of South Africa’s anti-migrant movement claim that Black African migrants are primarily responsible for unemployment, crime, and failing public services. None of these claims is supported by evidence. africasacountry.com/2026/06/kick...

Lawrence is such an interesting space of contradiction, the all white free state capital defended by John Brown, Haskell as boarding school turned Indian Nation college...I am not at all shocked that the Algerian Natl team found such a good space there during this insanely contradictory WC.

Between the visa bond, the digital surveillance requirements, and the 74 percent rejection rate, the Trump administration has made it nearly impossible for Senegalese fans and journalists to attend the World Cup. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

Against a tournament shadowed by visa refusals and bureaucratic hostility, the unexpected love affair between the Algerian national team and the city of Lawrence, Kansas, is a welcome reminder of what the World Cup is actually supposed to be about. africasacountry.com/2026/06/rock...

While I do love many people listed here, it is also very white. Let's not forget @africasacountry.bsky.social @theplantainshow.bsky.social @diasporautdpod.bsky.social @okwonga.bsky.social @burnitalldownpod.com @sheabutterfc.com @zeets.bsky.social among others who will be writing/talking about the WC

Bosnia’s World Cup squad is built on the descendants of war and displacement, players raised across Europe and North America who are finding their way back through football. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

Across South African radio and television, anti-immigration framing has become the norm. africasacountry.com/2026/06/sout...

Why are the religious practices of African footballers treated as strange when athletes around the world turn to faith and superstition to navigate the game’s uncertainty? africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

We’re live at Africa Center for our World Cup Salon. Room 1 is live! www.youtube.com/live/Oa3qbTu...

We’re live at our World Cup Salon at the Africa Center, Room 2 is streaming! www.youtube.com/live/LhRVIaM...

Come join us tomorrow to imagine a better way to do this World Cup thing! @africasacountry.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-...

Essa é a maneira da política americana de tratar estrangeiros: sejam autoridades ou não (humilhação midiática; ignorar Direitos humanos); eles bem que deveriam experimentar a reciprocidade desses atos;ao adentrarem o solo das outras nações.🤮💩

»Mohamed Salad, a Somali football journalist, recalls that, “His first match at AFCON was Namibia vs Tunisia in 2024. Thousands of us tuned in just to watch him. We were checking the refereeing schedules to see when his next game was—who does that?”«

For decades, Bafana Bafana embodied the disappointments of the democratic era. As the team recovers, South Africans are once again projecting their political aspirations and fears onto the national side. africasacountry.com/2026/06/what...

Although the UAE doesn’t occupy territory, it arms militias, controls ports, and launders violence through the language of development. Sudan is paying the price. africasacountry.com/2026/06/not-...

The exclusion of Somali referee Omar Artan hardens the contradiction at the heart of the 2026 World Cup: a global tournament increasingly shaped by the politics of exclusion. The latest from @MezahiMaher africasacountry.com/2026/06/a-wo...

Our special issue no. 2 is on the World Cup and is now available for purchase! africasacountry.com/store/produc...

If the South African left cannot engage the messy, contradictory spaces where working class politics are actually happening, then it cannot lead. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

Very good explanation of where the left is in South Africa, doesn't help that you have some right wing parties masquerading as left wing who are only in it to enrich themselves. Good read.

A much-anticipated “Conference of the Left” was supposed to unite South Africa’s progressive forces. Instead, it confirmed the harder truth: the left doesn’t need unity, it needs rebuilding. africasacountry.com/2026/06/noth...

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Fantastic piece. Make this one of your first reads about the soon upon us Men's World Cup.

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The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry and nationalist aspiration. Almost a century later, it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle. africasacountry.com/2026/06/what...

AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalized from literature, academia, and media — it poses the threat of industrial-scale erasure. africasacountry.com/2026/06/my-m...

Coming Monday …

In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...

At the 61st Venice Biennale, the late Koyo Kouoh’s decolonial vision shaped a landmark exhibition, even as questions of representation, solidarity, and cultural authority continued to haunt the African pavilions. africasacountry.com/2026/06/fram...

"The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him." -- Sherry Zane for @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/06/whos...

The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him. africasacountry.com/2026/06/whos...

A new documentary revisits how Mongo Beti used literature and political writing to confront the suppressed history of French colonial violence in Cameroon. africasacountry.com/2026/05/walk...

The violence unfolding in Mali reflects a deeper political impasse: how to sustain popular aspirations for emancipation without collapsing into military authoritarianism. africasacountry.com/2026/05/anti...

Really looking forward to participating in this event sponsored by @africasacountry.bsky.social on the eve of the #WorldCup www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-...

The Western left, which in principle should be the loudest voices against any normalization of imperialism, has shown that they themselves are not immune to this way of thinking. ...

Across Africa, governments are elevating STEM education while sidelining the humanities. But science and technology are never neutral, and technical expertise alone cannot transform society. africasacountry.com/2026/05/bran...

In Ghana, women boxers continue to pursue the sport despite the economic hardship and institutional inequalities they face in and out of the ring. africasacountry.com/2026/05/agai...

Under Arsène Wenger, Arsenal FC transformed English football’s relationship to African players, becoming a symbol of diaspora identity, Black internationalism, and global modernity. africasacountry.com/2026/05/arse...

Under the leadership of the president of the Ghana Football Association, the country’s football has become a study in contradiction, combining administrative modernization with competitive decline. africasacountry.com/2026/05/do-g...

This is an article that needed to be written and now needs to be read. 👇

Tune in for a lecture on Kenya's Finance Bill 2026 on our new podcast collaboration, Bunge Le Mayut www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOO...

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” speaks to real crises. But without a rigorous political economy behind it, progressive movements risk mistaking the symptoms for the disease. africasacountry.com/2026/05/mora...

The lyrics (loaded with amazing social consciousness/commentary) and the genre blending that is singeli music is not only the most Swahili thing, but the closest to embodying what the energy is like living in Dar es Salaam! 🔥🔥🔥

What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it? africasacountry.com/2026/05/tanz...

This is a must read piece, even though lengthy. So many points to higlight, but the focuses here💯✅️. Global south - like really interest of people there & their livelihoods, environment, community, climate change, biodiversity, indigenous rights, just green transition, politics & tacticts&strategies

This piece revisits Julius Nyerere's legacy through both praise and critique. The piece argues that Ujamaa's failures stem less from villagization alone than from weak class analysis and pressure from the World Bank. By @muzanalneel.bsky.social in @africasacountry.bsky.social buff.ly/Nw9VWgr

For our documentary 'After Oil,' we interviewed @triofrancos.bsky.social on the struggle over minerals, energy, and sovereignty, and how it is forcing a deeper reckoning with capitalism, climate change, and the unequal architecture of the global economy. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

In the United States, Arabs are rendered white or nonwhite depending on the political needs of empire, war, and racial control. africasacountry.com/2026/05/who-...