1/ So we couldn't resist: The Africa Is a Country Odds or known as: not straight footballing reasons to back a team in Euro 2021 and Copa America (inspired by @garyyounge's "Ethical World Cup"). Criteria: How many African descendent players on the team and your "Africa policy." 2 / Game 1, Euro 2021, Turkey vs Italy, June 11. Turkey: No Africans in the team (though Colin Kazim-Richards played in Euro 2008 Euros, through his Turkish-Cypriot mom); Turkish foreign policy in Africa is mostly about its own soft power; at least they're honest) ...

@veegarikayi @annamiti1 Thanks for heads up, @veegarikayi. @annamiti1, we've done a few. Here you go.
1. On Tanzania, "I join my president to pray for my country"
africasacountry.com/2020/06/i-join… @veegarikayi @annamiti1 2. Pentecostal republic: Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria. africasacountry.com/2018/09/pentec…

Now that Paul Manafort agreed to cooperate with the US Special Counsel, will we finally get the full story of the damage he did in Africa too? Working for "Leaders" like the late Mobutu, Siad Barre, Sani Abacha, Jonas Savimbi and Teodoro Obiang, the latter who is still around? On Manafort and Mobutu: Here's the receipts from 1989: washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…

1. The @RollingStone "minute-by-minute breakdown" of the making of "We are the world" on the recording of the song's 30th anniversary is nuts. A thread. 2. Willie Nelson, who spent much of the night drinking with Waylon Jennings and Ray Charles, remembered telling Charles that he thought the project was great "but wouldn't it be nice if we did something for the people in our own country"> It led to Farm Aid