Sean Jacobs

Nov 22, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Anna Reumert |Zachary Mondesire |Sean Jacobs

On June 3, 2019, the Sudanese Transitional Military Council’s armed forces used gunfire and tear gas to disperse peaceful sit-in demonstrators camped in the center of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. During the action, paramilitary troops killed more than 100 civilians and injured several others.

Aug 6, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Sean Jacobs

Review: Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024The topic of race is ‘boring’ to Coleman Hughes. To state such a thing publicly, in the United States, is enough to land one in both social and professional hot water. Yet New York-born Hughes – half black, half Puerto Rican – has carved himself out as a leading contrarian figure on the issue of race in the United States.

Jun 26, 2024 | cnn.com | Sean Jacobs

Editor’s Note: Sean Jacobs is full professor of international affairs at the New School and the founder and editor of the website Africa is a Country. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. I arrived in South Africa shortly before last month’s national elections. I was attending a conference on the country’s 1994 transition from white minority rule to democracy in Stellenbosch, a university town about a 30-minute drive east of Cape Town.

Jun 14, 2024 | elevennamedpeople.substack.com | Sean Jacobs

At least six players born on the African continent (and eight if you count the islands off the African coast claimed by Portugal and Spain) will play in the Euros from June 14th to July 14th. They are Eduardo Camavinga (France, born in Cabinda, Angola), Brice Samba (France, born in the DRC), Yvon Mvogo (Switzerland, born in Cameroon), Breel Embolo (Switzerland, born in Cameroon), Marc Guéhi (England, born in Ghana) and Danilo Pereira (Portugal, born in Guinea-Bissau).

Jun 8, 2024 | timeslive.co.za | Sean Jacobs

09 June 2024 - 00:00 One of my favourite photographs of myself was taken by a journalist acquaintance on July 8 1992. In the black-and-white print, I am on the left, dressed in a grey overcoat over a mismatched shirt and a striped sweater (what we South Africans call a jersey) and clutching a pen and notebook. Next to me, in a tracksuit, is the footballer Doctor Khumalo. He smiles in a different direction. I look straight into the camera. I was 23, Khumalo 25. We radiate openness and cheer...