I have a short essay in an upcoming book, 'Black Arsenal,' about the history and relationship of the English Premier League football club Arsenal with black identity and culture. I wrote about Arsenal's relationship and history with the African continent. It is co-edited by…

A Kenyan Manchester United fan bet he'd eat a tray of boiled eggs if they lost to Arsenal in Premier League. They did. He ate 15, collapsed, had a fever, his stomach swelled up, and he ended up on an IV drip in hospital. He is fine now. He's still a United fan.
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From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense. africasacountry.com/2024/05/is-the…

My latest piece maps the use of Mogadishu as an adjective to describe what Israel has done/is doing to Gaza, and why it is a really inappropriate analogy, via Africa Is a Country.

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In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But as Faisal warns, we have to be careful when making comparisons. africasacountry.com/2024/04/the-mo…

RIP to Mac McKenzie, the Genuine Goema Captain of Cape Town.

Dar Es Salaam’s Kariakoo derby is fast becoming the continent’s biggest. Alasdair Howorth checks in from Tanzania. africasacountry.com/2024/04/the-tw…

Nico Williams of Bilbao points to his skin after scoring against Atletico Madrid on Saturday.

in my interpretation, the brave emory professor who cried out “i’m a professor” while being brutalized by police for intervening in police brutality was addressing her colleagues, all faculty nationwide who walk by the encampments & hear about the suspensions, but choose silence.

. The New School has '... investment funds have positions in the following thirteen companies, which are actively involved in, and benefiting from, the genocide in Palestine: AXA, the Boeing Company, Caterpillar Inc., CEMEX, The Chevron Corporation, Elbit Systems Ltd., General…

.sazi 🎞 explores South Africa, thirty-years after 1994. africasacountry.com/2024/04/born-f…

One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture. An interview with Aziz Faarah by Amal africasacountry.com/2024/04/buying…

When I say, America owes Africans and African descendants globally - this is part of what I’m talking about.

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today. Anakwa Dwamena interviews Yao Graham for AIAC. africasacountry.com/2024/04/kwame-…

To see Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest film as condoning the West’s orientalism is to to ignore the agency of the women in it. مريم reviews 'Four Daughters' africasacountry.com/2024/04/more-t…

Seriously asking for a friend: How is Philip de Wet still @news24's 'foreign editor'?

The (moral) bondage from which many older Jewish Americans actually need liberating is their attachment to Zionism, whose lived reality is a racist, settler-colonial project which makes Jews less safe, and less Jewish, eternally at war with the neighbors it displaced. 🧵

A rabbi once told me there was no evidence to support the idea that Jews were every enslaved in Egypt, but that the Exodus story we celebrate on Passover is a valuable morality tale. With that in mind, my Passover narrative is this: 🧵

We are failing every day to force a ceasefire and stop the genocide. But failure is not an option. We must refocus this moment. Maren Mantovani of Stop The Wall contributes: africasacountry.com/2024/04/is-the…

Instant reaction to the #CAFCL semi-final matches today that finished:

TP Mazembe 0-0 Al Ahly
Esperance de Tunis 1-0 Mamelodi Sundowns

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