Posts Tagged ‘soccer’
Vexed by the King of Liberia
Glenna Gordon has a fantastic story about trying to take the photo of George Weah, massive soccer star and one-time presidential candidate, whose narrow loss to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf surprised some folks. Weah was in town for the recent senate elections, lending some celebrity to his political party.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Geogre Weah is the king [...]
Missing signals that aren’t even cultural
Here’s a little intermission from my genocide memorial posts, which you can anticipate more of this week…
For the record, I realize that with this, I’ll be fulfilling age-old gender stereotypes that smart women as far back as my grandmother have been fighting, but I’ve always preferred honesty to -isms, even the good ones. And [...]
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