The line from Afef Abrougui, one of the Global Voices MENA editors, from Tunisia: “There is this joke in Tunisia which says that Tunisians only feel African when our national team is playing in the African Cup of Nations.”The Tunisia joke stuck with me because the feeling that people only feel African when the national team’s playing in the Cup of Nations. Says a lot in one line: identity that’s basically switched on by football and off the rest of the time.

https://globalvoices.org/2018/05/28/how-african-is-northern-africa/