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Post-Colonial Stability

Thursday, March 8, 2007

Two days ago, on March 6, was the fiftieth anniversary of Ghana's independence from Great Britain. If you want insightful commentary on the event, head over to Ethan Zuckerman's post. This lack of anything useful to say is partly because when I think of Independence Day, I think of July 4 as opposed to March [...]

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Ghanaian Football and Israeli Flags

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Several viewers of the Ghana-Czech Republic game in the World Cup seemed confused as to why Ghanaian player John Pantsil was waving an Israeli flag as the Ghanaians beat the Czechs, 2-0. I have heard many explanations, including one suggesting that it was a repudiation of Holocaust denial!
Since a number of people have been directing [...]

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Issues-Based Support in the World Cup

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

From the New York Times' World Cup blog comes information about a site entitled Who Should I Cheer For?. It purports to tell you which team you should, based a number of non-football related indicators, like human rights, military spending, and the number of multinational companies that call the country home.
Partly because of that last [...]

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Two Perspectives on Panafest

Sunday, September 25, 2005

I was a bit annoyed back in August when I read Travis Kavulla's description of his time at Panafest, a biannual festival in Ghana which celebrates pan-Africanism. While I have liked the incisiveness of some of his past writing, this piece took too many cheap shots. For example, his second paragraph:
PANAFEST—not an acronym, but unfailingly [...]

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