Injecting “Milwaukee Messi” into my veins. www.foxsports.com/stories/socc...

'The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry & nationalist aspiration...it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle' Boima Tucker on football's political contradictions and conflicting emotions @chiefboima.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/06/what...

Got to writing, this time about football.

Part of an African filmmakers talk tomorrow in Brooklyn www.moretotalkabout.com/event/diaspo...

Catch 'After Oil' at the New York African Film Fest this upcoming May 24 at the @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Use code NYAFF2026 for $5 off of your ticket. www.bam.org/film/2026/fi...

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-...

Fun fact: Sierra Leone were once Unofficial World Champions of Football en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unoffic...

I have no idea why but La Macarena stays on repeat at playgrounds across Lima.

Sam Fan Thomas is still the best. That is all.

We are currently in production of our 2nd physical edition. The focus will be on the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup and its implications. We're launching it with a free salon at the Africa Center in New York on the eve of the tournament. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/africa-is-...

There's a North African/Levantine rhythm that reminds me of Nyabinghi.

Rauw giving us some Afro Peruvian festejo for the World Cup youtu.be/-o-38aZg6o0?...

Our first full length documentary film "After Oil" will be premiering at the NY African Film Fest this May 24th at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. The film traces the politics of energy in South Africa, Kenya, and Western Sahara. africasacountry.com/after-oil

I’m just now remembering that my first ever commissioned writing was about the transnational connections of Shakira’s World Cup song for South Africa.

Modern suburban parents: if our child is going to play soccer, we want their team to have them on a serious professional track. Same parents: a BA in history is simply not practical

The view from where I'm sitting www.youtube.com/watch?v=jezl...

It’s kind of wild how often a journalist will write unprecedented for events mirrored in a history book I read the night before.

Since no one asked, here's my Sinners take: It's a fine fun action fantasy movie that is technically accomplished and is able to raise some interesting questions in a context of a contemporary Hollywood studio system with a dearth of black perspectives at the highest levels of funding (as with BP).

#ReadABook on the radio 📡 www.spectorbooks.com/book/ten-cit...

Whether at home or abroad, many experts say, the war-induced shock to fossil fuel markets reinforces China’s energy policies. “The big takeaway,” Logan said, “is that this really vindicates a lot of China’s clean energy push.” (Inside Climate News)

I just figured out that my favorite Wande Coal song was Fuji music.

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

Since being in Peru I feel like all I eat is Chocolate and Avocado.

“AUMF type beat”

Razão 100,000,003 que o Brasil é mais grande www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqg...

Is anyone writing an academic argument in favor of the platformization of information? A new literacy perhaps?

I see Bruno been listening to SalSoul records

How come I don’t hear everyone talking about Chronixx album?

surely varied by region and social context, but from my little area I know well, there were a lot of Yiddish partisan songs as well as ones written by internees in Nazi ghettos, here's a well-known one www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...

Listening to the Regional Mexican station, a song about being undocumented comes on, and the polka/klezmer cadence got me wondering what resistance music was in WW2 Europe.

Im thinking that post-Apocalyptic nostalgia might be the best label for our current cultural era (one which we’re only at the beginning of).

Jamaican Airhorns are serious right now.

The development of technology (under capitalism) just feels like a long sequence of inventing ways to have enough time to do what you actually want to do.

A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!

In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful. Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall. Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

San Francisco staves off Ice invasion while federal police amass in the East Bay? africasacountry.com/2021/03/what...

My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...

The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures? africasacountry.com/2025/06/when...

We’re live in Nairobi radio.calotropis.xyz/static/uploa...

I really can’t imagine what experiencing a world war was like when your only updates came once a day from newspapers, radio broadcasts, or the previews before a Charlie Chaplin film.

Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!

Booked a window seat so I could stare out at the Amazon, only to realize that a RAINforest isn’t that interesting from 30,000 ft.

What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?

Changed paper towel dispenser backstage so Ben Harper could dry his hands. He nodded at me while dripping water into the sink.

I was now years old when I found out Flag Day was a thing in the US, and last week's years old when I found out celebrating a national flag (in this case Peru) was even a thing.

Saw there was a bloghouse book.

That they tagged up the federal building with anti-ICE graffiti that just happens to be next to MOCA is brilliant.

So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.

It’s amazing how useless the Internet has become if you’re not actually logged into anything that’s spying on you.

First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?...