Africa Is a Country

South Africa’s Glorious Moment

South Africa’s Glorious Moment

By
Sean Jacobs

it is a testament to the hosts that my young daughter insists South Africa won the 2010 World Cup.

A Ghanaian player during the 2010 World Cup Group D match between Ghana and Germany at Soccer City Stadium on June 23, 2010.

As part of a retrospection of 2010, The New York Times commissioned twelve writers to contribute to the series, “Around the World in 12 Months (in 2010).”  My recollections of the 2010 World Cup was the entry for June.  Rosa, my four year old daughter at the time (she’s since turned 5), traveled with me and the piece riffs on her experiences of the tournament. I don’t think the paper would mind if I cut-and-pasted the short entry below.

Further Reading

No one should be surprised we exist

The documentary film, ‘Rolé—Histórias dos Rolezinhos’ by Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Vladimir Seixas uses sharp commentary to expose social, political, and cultural inequalities within Brazilian society.

Kenya’s stalemate

A fundamental contest between two orders is taking place in Kenya. Will its progressives seize the moment to catalyze a vision for social, economic, and political change?

More than a building

The film ‘No Place But Here’ uses VR or 360 media to immerse a viewer inside a housing occupation in Cape Town. In the process, it wants to challenge gentrification and the capitalist logic of home ownership.