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Esto contigo Brasil

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Esto contigo Brasil

By
Sean Jacobs

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The largest African country in the world just crashed out of the quarterfinals of the 2010 World Cup.

Don’t worry Brazil, you’ll always have Antonio Carlos Jobim.

After Brazil dominated the first half against the Netherlands, Julio Cesar (and the hotheaded Felipe Melo) gifted the Netherlands a goal. Then it unraveled. Melo, rightly tired of Arjen Robben’s theatrics, trampled on him. But with that also went any chance of Brazil coming back into the game. Surely Dunga will now be fired. See you in four years Brazil. Well done to the Netherlands. It was priceless to see Rudd Gullit’s unbridled joy after the match.

h/t Jobim (with a very cool Frank Sinatra) video via Black South Easters.

— Sean Jacobs

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.

Reading List: Barbara Boswell

While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.

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?

An annual awakening

In the 1980s, the South African arts collective Vakalisa Art Associates reclaimed time as a tool of social control through their subversive calendars.

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.