Football Underdogs and Politricks
The fortunes of Sudan and Equatorial Guinea at AFCON 2012. The latter especially, a squad cobbled together by naturalizing players from Brazil and Spain.
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Elliot Ross
Elliot Ross is a former editorial board member of Africa is a Country.
Vincent Kompany is from the DRC
What countries do footballers playing in Europe’s top five leagues come from? That’s not such a straightforward question and answer.
Pizza Aid
What happens when humanitarian agencies ditch the tried-and-trusted fundraising method of splashing disaster porn across screens and news pages?
An African in the Arctic
One of the key Greenpeace activists making an assault on oil drilling in Greenland is a political activist who was regularly arrested by South African police under apartheid.
Africa’s media considered
What is the state of the media in Africa? And how is it dealing with perhaps the biggest emerging story continent-wide, the rise of the extractive sector?
Tendai Biti at Columbia University
One of the leaders of Zimbabwe’s opposition movement, the MDC, who now serves as finance minister in the unity government, talks about the challenges for his country.