Welcome Michigan State Univ. History alum Prof. Leslie Hadfield and co-authors, Kokel Melubo & Festo Mkenda. Enjoying your presentation on the history of Mt. Kilimanjaro's African crews.

1 year ago a mass shooting devastated our Michigan State Univ. community statenews.com/article/2024...

Buongiorno

Ivory Coast Champions of Africa! Terrific 2-1 comeback vs Nigeria

Bob’s June 1977 Rainbow Theatre shows are stupendiferously irie.

Sad about South Africa’s penalty shootout loss, but looking forward nevertheless to Sunday’s AFCON final: Côte d’Ivoire vs Nigeria.

With the elections coming up, South African keeper Ronwen Williams stakes his claim to the presidency.

South Africa could use some Madiba Magic today vs Cape Verde.

Conjuring a great escape from this defensive cage

South Africa to face Cape Verde in the AFCON quarterfinals on Saturday.

Triple truth

Sports are everywhere, and so they should be on your bookshelf for understanding American history and culture. Could not be more excited to launch this important series with the juggernaut team of @profloumoore.bsky.social, Victoria Jackson, and @noahcohan.bsky.social

Maybe you're tired and broken Your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear What do you want me to do To do for you, to see you through? A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through youtu.be/XEx9fxUgWaw?...

“On the need to allow humanitarian aid to a starving population in Gaza and to prevent and punish the incitement of genocide, even the respected Israeli judge, Aharon Barak, joined the majority, making the vote 16 to 1” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 schedule (with US Eastern times) — will South Africa prevent a Morocco-Senegal final?

This year’s Football Money League (by Deloitte) is now available www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/...

Fighting for a precious draw. Phambili Bafana!!

Algeria finishing last in a group with Angola, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania—this Afcon keeps surprising.

A second ex-LASD deputy was sentenced to federal prison today after abducting and framing a skateboarder in Compton in 2020. In a victim impact statement, Jesus Alegria had words for the former deputies: “What goes around comes around," he wrote. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Today in my “Sport and Society in African history” PhD seminar.

South Africa and Juve up 3-0, Lions 10-10 at the half. What a Sports Sunday

Disgusting racism by fans of Udinese led Milan keeper Maignan to walk off the pitch. A few minutes later, Udinese tied the game. How’s this acceptable?

Just another frigid winter day

All Protocol Observed.  Welcome to Issue 147 of The Continent  Money is the best soap: TotalEnergies is sponsoring Afcon — Africa’s biggest football competition — presumably hoping the stains of its core business are washed away.

Forget NYC, LA, or DC: 2026 (Men’s) World Cup Final will be played in Dallas.

Another day of decent writing about podcasting and African studies.

Cary Grant on how LSD changed his life. Feature on "the new Cary Grant" in Look magazine, Sept 1 1959.

I agree with Dave’s point. More importantly, I agree with this demand, which is a logical extension of BDS.

So many old white dudes coaching in Africa.

Sporting mega-event in a nutshell

With Africa’s most important sporting event happening now in Côte d’Ivoire, check out our African Sport Scholars network — sportsafrica.org

-13’C outside: perfect for reading

The Admiral at his post

Namibia calls out Germany's move to defend Israel at the International Court of Justice when it hasn't fully atoned for the genocide committed there. Many of the tactics used on the Nama and Herero laid the groundwork for methods used in the Holocaust. twitter.com/NamPresidenc...

Music, Tech, and Labor History—for the AI age 📷 Oelwein Daily Register (Iowa) 17 Aug 1930

Facts and humanism matter www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f_y...

Quoted here on the political dimensions of South Africa’s 1996 Africa Cup of Nations triumph: sportsgazette.co.uk/afcon-archiv...

How about some “moto-ball”? Paris, July 10, 1932 📷 French National Library

“Is that a typo in your fancy syllabus?”

Today: first meeting of my PhD seminar “Sport & Society in African History.”

King Dusan Vlahovic

Now free live stream: best of Italian women’s fútbol www.youtube.com/live/g9OTyY3...

“Newspaper articles”

What a striking photo.

Not only for historians

Timothy Weah appreciation time