World Cup Top 11 Analysis: Future Legacy
When looking at this World Cup Top 11 several strands struck me as immediately recognizable: compassion, narratives and community. These are major mentality movements that are cyclical in nature and thus never truly fade away. They just keep appearing in different forms and always co-constitutive of other movements. The findings in this top 11 present us with intersections of different desires and needs that simultaneously transcend cultural borders but are instantly recognizable as particular to Africa and to the World Cup being in Africa. Let’s not forget that that is why we are looking at Africa in the first place now. It’s not because of civil wars or famine or AIDS as is usually the case when speaking of Africa. On this list there is only specific reference to that troubled and troubling image of Africa but more on that below. These three major mentality movements paint a picture of the creation of a future, the remembrance of legacies and the creation of future legacies.
