Preliminary Notes for a Mediterranean Manifesto
By Rasheed Araeen Once the Mediterranean becomes a great centre of communication, of exchange of ideas between the West and the East, between the North and the South, this can generate economic activity that would rejuvenate the whole area around the Mediterranean north and south, east and west, creating a civilisation based on human equality. In […]
The Sound of Freedom
[…]For over a decade Louis Moholo has been the only surviving member of the original Blue Notes. Nick Moyake died in 1969, Mongezi Feza in 1975, Johnny Dyani in 1986, Chris McGregor and Dudu Pukwana in 1990. However, their collective recorded legacy is nearly a hundred albums and, individually and collectively, they changed jazz immeasurably […]
Shift The Goalposts Of Disadvantage
By Simon Kuper Every year, in an election you may have missed, Belgian football coaches and journalists vote for the best African player in the Belgian league. The most recent “Ebony Shoe” went to the Senegalese striker, Mbaye Leye, prompting a worldwide chorus of “Who?” If you scan the list of previous winners of the […]
Ready, Willing and Able
Lolade Adewuyi profiles one of the continent’s most successful football coaches – the Big Boss, as he is widely referred to – and considers the arguments for more faith, more respect and more investment in the abilities of home-grown trainers. “I would like to dedicate the [AFCON] trophy to all African coaches. We’re not yet […]
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Ghana Dominate Women’s Football
In a brief history of women’s football on the continent, Shina Oludari reveals that, despite the overwhelming favour afforded to the beautiful game and its star male players, African women have put foot on the pitches and proven that passion and skill trump gender. Despite the bias of massive investment in the playing and marketing […]