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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I know Martinez bears the brunt for calling up Ronaldo but as for me and my mud hut, it shows that Portugal have a deeply unserious federation. Like The Brazilian one. Neymar shouldn’t have been in the squad.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Presented at the 3rd Namibia Media and Communication Conference where I spoke about journalists as social thinkers and what it means to rethink the role of the journalist at a moment when the industry itself is being redefined. Very cool to see local media pick up the presentation afterwards.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Somewhere in Namibia's capital, Windhoek.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The night before I met Nasser, I was nostalgic for the self who wrote about personal experiences and existential questions on a defunct blog. I wondered whether withholding her was defensible or merely an excuse. In this profound essay, Nasser narrates that self back to life.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have so many reasons I love Bruno and whatever transpired vs Foden is one of them. Proper enigma

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not sure if I prefer Amorim's anxiety football or Carrick's nonchalant football. Everton was there for the taking from KO.

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FairSquare @fairsqprojects.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Separating the rule-maker from the business it supervises is basic institutional hygiene, not an optional refinement" Typically excellent from Professor Miguel Maduro in the always excellent @josimarfootball.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/09/03/f...

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

from which liberal legalism derives political legitimacy. But you cannot establish the illegitimacy of a jihadist by saying that he violates a constitution whose authority he fundamentally rejects. That only restates the legitimacy of the order under contestation.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There is a mismatch in the liberal-legalist conception of legitimacy: protest, exposure and moral condemnation are treated as legitimate forms of resistance, while coups, militias and insurgencies are illegitimate because they reject the constitutional and international order

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It might be time to re-consider the rule which enables clubs to claim 100% profit on sales of home-grown players. It only seems to encourage said clubs to sell the footballers who are the purest and most relatable expressions of their identity.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The good thing about VAR is it's made us philosophers of the rules of the game.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Co hosts of the 2030 World Cup, mind you.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I have pavloved my Instagram followers to believe that anytime I reactivate my account, I'm in Kenya.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So why is it a feature not a bug? Because of the foundational designs of African football. All explained in this piece :) josimarfootball.com/2026/03/27/b...

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By design, not error - josimarfootball.com

Gaming the system or playing the game: is Morocco a scapegoat of African football’s own making?

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They lost before Kenya’s Sports Disputes Tribunal and the case has moved to the High Court. Here comes my "feature not a bug" beat: Court proceedings have delayed or suspended domestic leagues in Ghana (2015/16, 2018 and 2022), Uganda (2014), Sierra Leone (2023) and Nigeria (2016).

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

FKF introduced new regulations abolishing that playoff and providing for the bottom three clubs to be relegated automatically. Sharks argue that the amended regulations were not properly authorised and could not legitimately determine their fate.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Under the previous rules, the bottom two clubs were automatically relegated. The total number of clubs in the Kenyan top flight is 18. The club finishing 16th would play a playoff against a second-division team for the remaining top-flight place. Kariobangi Sharks finished 16th.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Kariobangi Sharks, the club suing the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) is owned by Nick Mwendwa. Nick was Football Kenya Federation president from 2016 to 2024. He vied and lost as vice president against the regime he is suing. So why is Kariobangi Sharks suing?

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Kenya’s new top-flight football season has been delayed by litigation over relegation. The is a useful illustration of something I have argued about African football where sporting consequences are opened and determined in courts and tribunals. eastleighvoice.co.ke/football/393...

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KPL season delayed as court battles over Kariobangi Sharks relegation continue | The Eastleigh Voice

The dispute centres on Kariobangi Sharks’ relegation from the top flight following the application of FKF’s 2025 promotion and relegation regulations.

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GavitronGaming @gavitrongaming.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not exactly a #DailyAffirmation, but was surprising to hear @fdsignifier.bsky.social say it in an older video about Amber Heard when it felt relevant to me. Have a good one, y’all.

“I’ve been chronically online for 3 years now, as a part of this as a career. And I’ve had more than a few hate campaigns towards me, and one thing I’ve learned from this is that people can effectively just make up shit or at best take something with the tiniest sliver of truth and just repeat it telephone style in comment sections and reddit boards until it becomes basically factual lore and blown out of proportion. Because when you make shit up online, you don’t have to look people in the eye to do it. And when people don’t like you, or looking for a reason not to like you, the burden of truth and factuality on whatever bad thing they hear about you is very, very low.”

-F.D. Signifier

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Guess who else has been recruiting from Africa? "Ugandan authorities won parliamentary approval to deploy troops to Gaza as part of the international force proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace." www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs....

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Uganda approves sending troops to Gaza for international force proposed by Trump's Board of Peace

The successful motion, brought by the defense minister, is Uganda's first public indication of its willingness to join the International Stabilization Force for Gaza. Morocco also has pledged troops f...

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It grinds my gears that the concepts ”woke” and “left“ have been weaponized against people who are not anywhere near woke nor left. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don’t know why “right wing” is considered a slur or derogatory. The right seem to diagnose societal and systemic issues aptly. Their prescriptions however, are worse than the diagnosis. As for the ”left” their diagnoses are so off…! Hence why I don’t understand why they think they’re any better.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Also if I worked full time I would earn as much as what I earn as a PhD researcher. Idk man, this life is farcical 😂 You can perhaps understand why I’m unmoved by systems that dress up their malevolence as prestige, vocation and institutional legitimacy.

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This Is Fine Meme

ALT: This Is Fine Meme

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The reactions I receive whenever I divulge what I’m up to during the summer is also quite telling. Not sure if it’s confessions of what people think of cleaners or cleaning as a job. I’m actually having fun at this job as it’s honest work and doesn‘t make it to the list of existing bullshit jobs.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Of all my qualifications, the one currently proving most economically useful is an old colonial technology of discipline effected in the Kenyan education system . Maybe this is what they mean when they say colonialism worked!

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Apparently I was such a good cleaner last summer that I’ve now been promoted to team leader, which, it turns out, involves doing almost exactly what I did as a prefect in a Kenyan boarding school.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I work as a cleaner during the summer to because I’m trying to stay ahead of the AI-is-going-to-take-our-jobs curve, because academia is unsustainable and/or because I’m buying independence from the systems and industries I criticise. The official explanation depends on one‘s school of thought.

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Will Harris @sandwichpick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The perfect parody doesn't exis-

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I didn’t expect us to agree 🙂

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yet another case of taking the game global but hating it when it takes global sensibilities. Global capital, global players, global managers and you don’t want global fans? You will soon have fixtures played abroad. This is the globalist cake -it is full of edible contradictions

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

take off your idealogical hats and put on the systemic lens. Whatever happens in sports discourse is that people treat the dysfunction as a “curse“ when literally there is a scientific explanation for why it happens.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Precisely because there is so much evidence of dysfunction such as foreign born footballers in national teams, dead leagues, match fixing etc etc.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

FIFA helps construct the terms under which it is evaluated, obtains external institutional recognition within those terms, and then presents that recognition as independent validation of the whole arrangement. the entire structure producing legitimacy needs to be questioned.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Much of the source used in this article is the FIFA annual reports. Hm. I‘ve said it once and I will say it again: the sports media ecosystem is part of the problem and that’s why they’re usually pawns on Gianni’s chessboard.

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Their source is FIFA annual reports. 🚩

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Otherwise I would begrudgingly marvel at Gianni’s mastery. Either way I still am- hating the player and the game!

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The only incentive I have is most of the losers in football governance in Africa are also part of the state apparatus. They are the source of most of Africa’s misfortunes. I don’t mind liars, I mind liars who pretend their lies are benevolent

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

They say you can’t inspect FIFA because most of theFAs don’t publish their financials. I say the drug mafioso don’t publish their financials but some people still follow the trail. 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Steff Ndei @steffndei.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The wider FIFA system appears much more stable than its dysfunctional components would suggest. I suspect there’s large sources of illicit shenanigans sustaining it and I hate my brain for taking me there.

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Denzel Washington Pissed at Desk

ALT: Denzel Washington Pissed at Desk

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