Djibouti e Brasil


Abdourahman Waberi talks about Djibouti
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Overview of Soccer in South Africa


Overview of Soccer in South Africa

Get a comprehensive overview of Soccer in South Africa: its history, current teams, and more!
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Who will play George Weah?


Hollywood actor/director Dermot Mulroney (what does he know about football?) will develop and probably direct a biopic on the life of Liberian football legend George Weah.
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This Time for South Africa



Marcus Gilroy-Ware talks to South Africans as well as Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall about what comes next now that the tournament is over.
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As all eyes turn toward South Africa and the 2010 World Cup, Chimurenga and the Chinua Achebe Center will send fourteen prominent writers, among them Chris Abani and Alain Mabanckou, on a guided pilgrimage to thirteen cities in Africa (and Salvador do Bahia). Their experiences will be published as travelogues and will also appear here on this web site in the form of blogs.