Sean Jacobs @_SeanJacobs
Professor at @thenewschool. Founder of @africasacountry. Opinion and essays on sports culture: in New York Times, Roads & Kingdoms, and Al Jazeera elevennamedpeople.substack.com Joined October 2018-
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It gets worse every time you watch it. 🤦♂️
.@RediTlhabi speaks with author and commentator @KarenAttiah to explore the shrinking space for free expression in the US. Attiah was recently fired as a columnist (the only black columnist) at The Washington Post youtu.be/RvkFMkZnPRg?si…
@savagesourcee So @LorenLorosa, what was your intention with this question? What would a person from Nigeria, Tiwa Savage, know about race and identity in South Africa?
That time, right before COVID-19, when I was in Marseille, France, and wrote about the city's main football team for Stranger's Guide. I did not include what the late Pope Francis said, announcing a visit there: "I come to Marseille, not to France." strangersguide.substack.com/p/olympique-de…
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Paco Cerda in El País: "Sport, although it seemed forgotten, is politics. Politics, although they want us to forget it, is above all humanity. It is John Carlos's black fist in Mexico '68. It is Jesse Owens's look as he beat Hitler in the Nazi Olympics in 1936. It is getting off…
@_SeanJacobs @SACLI @MYANC @helenzille @Our_DA @AxolileNotywala @ewnreporter @lesterkk @ThabisoTema @Tessa_Dooms @lynseychutel @MkhariGiven @brettherron @NSwartbooi Sean, I just saw a trailer of the documentary. As Cape Town, born and raised person who now lives in Jozi, I am often taken aback by the unbalanced take on Cape Town's acute socio-economic challenges. These are no different from what other metros face. National solution needed.
"Nolwadle Duma and an Anaconda outside her house, Mamfiso Arts and Crafts, Vilakazi Street, Orlando West," 2009, by Jodi Bieber.
To #Johannesburg people disillusioned with @MYANC misrule and excited by @helenzille’s mayoral bid: watch "Mother City," a powerful doc on @Our_DA Cape Town's "best-governed" record. After seeing it, I wished it were freely available to all South Africans—it’s too important a…
Solid piece on @ChristivdWest — glad to see News24 spotlighting an essential thinker. Stay with it, though the writing could have been more relaxed in the 2nd half. The comments are the usual white racist dumpster fire that is @News24 reader comments. news24.com/opinions/analy…
Commentator: "By the naked eye, Fernandez is onside by a toenail."
This on Mo Salah by @_SeanJacobs is such a great read: thenewcntxt.com/ia-theorist-is…
BREAKING: 🚨 Almost 400 individuals and organizations in Ghana have called for the cancellation of an Israeli film festival scheduled to take place from September 16 to 20 in the capital, Accra.
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@_SeanJacobs @Mrbankstips You've been in the States for far too long Sean, buya ekhaya, assomablief!
I'm not sure where he's getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine. We'd welcome donations from anyone who respects our editorial independence, but we're not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation.
@_SeanJacobs @Mrbankstips It's actually Mbombela Stadium, in Mpumalanga.

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