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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herri 11 is an urgent agit-prop response from South Africa to the genocide in Gaza in the form of poetry, writing, photography, sonic responses, DJ mixes, visual art, and more. Nearly 90 contributors. herri.org.za/11/
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Read @_SeanJacobs' obituary of Tsolo from 2023. "South Africans sadly don’t have a strong sense of history. Political exiles’ harsh years and necessary contributions are now unfairly dismissed as cowardice or derided as a means to enrichment." africasacountry.com/2023/10/there-…
Read @_SeanJacobs' obituary of Tsolo from 2023. "South Africans sadly don’t have a strong sense of history. Political exiles’ harsh years and necessary contributions are now unfairly dismissed as cowardice or derided as a means to enrichment." africasacountry.com/2023/10/there-…
#Throwback. Kesivan Naidoo, the legend Mr William Parker (@LittleHueyMusic), and a random audience member at @strandbookstore in Manhattan, February 2017. (I gave a short lecture on music and liberation in South Africa before they played a set.)
"Young girls in Islamic school uniforms play football in their high school courtyard (in Tehran)," 1989, by Abbas.
"San Trance Dance," 1959, by Jurgen Schadeburg.
We are all Liverpool, Exhibit 1,000,003
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Now that Western scholars have confirmed what Palestinians have been telling us for two years, that Israel is responsible for a genocide in Gaza, will you finally stand with us? Will you come out and protest with us against the use of starvation and food as a weapon of war?
Arundhati Ghosh: “Every now and then I kiss the walls [of my apartment] and raise a glass and a middle finger to my critics, who seem to think that to write and say the things I do I must live a life of fake, self-inflicted poverty.”
From "My City" (2023) by @ZaniSizani. Via @AFREMoyaMag.
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Gary Linekar: “The noise - I’ve never heard anything like it. It is probably the wildest atmosphere I’ve ever heard.”
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@SABCNews Since you won’t name her and she remains FACELESS to many… I’ll do them a favour, here’s the Interview. This is the supposed “one of SABC’s reporters”… nanko…
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More resource: @_SeanJacobs How South Africans Used Sports to End Apartheid youtube.com/watch?v=bmD1VD…
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The Historiography of the South African Sports Boycott by @_SeanJacobs, in The Oxford Handbook of South African History academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
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My thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of journalist, political commentator, radio host and moderator Tshidi Madia who has passed away in the prime of her life. Tshidi loved our country and this was the backdrop to her tough questions and her hopeful vision of a…
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