• Steven Friedman

One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.

• Alex Hochuli

Brazilians have a complicated relationship to the Seleção, clouded by political crises, the parliamentary coup and the decline of a national style.

• Sean Jacobs
• Sebastian Abbot

Two of Africa's standout talents at Russia 2018--Moussa Wague and Francis Uzoho--were shaped by a football academy in Qatar. A new book tells that story.

• Matthew J. Smith

In Jamaica, which is always in need of healthy distraction, football is King and everyone at heart is a Brazilian. Since 1958.

• Todd Cleveland

Watching the World Cup in Finland and Estonia. Sample: "Finns just aren’t very good at, nor are they voracious consumers of the game." As for Estonians, read on.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, "The Poets."

• Lina Benabdallah

In the 1970s, Algiers served as refuge to African Americans who confronted US racism with force and had to flee the country. Some Panthers hijacked planes.

• Ron Krabill
• Danny Hoffman

Collecting football stories that highlight the world – the African world, in this case – and making the Seattle game global in the process.

• Jesica Paola Kessler

Argentina crashed out of the 2018 World Cup. It's not Messi's fault.

• Will Youmans

The author relives his greatest World Cup moment.

• Davy Lane

Despite what happened at the 2010 World Cup, Africans have more in common with Uruguayans.

• Simon Adetona Akindes

Even VAR could not save the Africans who withered away in the first round of Russia 2018.

• John Edwin Mason

The South African photographer has left us. He was one of the most significant artists of his time.

• Fati Abubakar

The author grapples with how to photograph the lives of her neighbors in a part of North East Nigeria, where Boko Haram is on a reign of terror.

• Keith Hamusute

In 1994, Zambia was on the cusp of qualifying for the World Cup. After a tragedy wiped out the national team it lost to bad refereeing.

• Kampire Bahana

A new film and how to change minds about who is at fault for Uganda’s endemic violence against women.

• Rishi Nath

Ishmael Reed explores the future of race in America in new work, focusing in on black-South Asian solidarities.

• Steven Friedman

The reason why African teams struggle in the World Cup has everything to do with colonialism.

• Sebastian Abbot

When African football officials stop being corrupt and identify and develop young talent, an African nation would have a real chance of winning the World Cup.

• Camalita Naicker

How do you tell a different story of Indians in South Africa, one that shatters long-held and reproduced stereotypes?