Africa is a Country

Artículos

• The distance between

  17 de junio, puesto en línea por Mattie C. Webb
  The Cape Town Marathon has become Africa’s first World Marathon Major. But can a city that sees itself as an exception to the continent be its marathon capital?

• The meaning of Omar Artan

  16 de junio, puesto en línea por Faisal Ali
  The World Cup was meant to be the culmination of Omar Artan’s remarkable rise. His exclusion from it revealed something equally striking: the magnitude of the admiration he had earned at home and globally.

• What is the World Cup for?

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por Boima Tucker
  The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry and nationalist aspiration. Almost a century later, it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle.

• A World Cup without the world?

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por Maher Mezahi
  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.

• What Bafana Bafana teaches South Africa about itself

  15 de junio, puesto en línea por Lee Nxumalo
  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.