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The Jet Lag They Ran Through: How America's College Tracks Quietly Built Part of Kenya's Glasgow Team

Six Kenyan student-athletes flew from the NCAA finals in Oregon to the trials in Nairobi within days — and ran their way onto Team Kenya for the Commonwealth Games.

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Athletes compete in a track race at the athletics stadium during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Scholarship That Runs Both Ways: How America's Kenyan College Stars Are Booking Tickets to Glasgow

When Kenya named its squad for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the trials in Nairobi drew a new kind of contender — student-athletes flown in from American campuses.

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Home Soil, Far From Home: African Teams and Their Diaspora Light Up a North American World Cup

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A Father's Country, Another Country's Shirt: How Philipp Mwene Became Kenya's Third Son at a World Cup

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From a Camp to a Stadium in Seattle: How Refugee and Diaspora Roots Are Quietly Rewriting the 2026 World Cup

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The Left-Back From Vienna: How a Kenyan Father's Son Wrote Himself Into World Cup History

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The Goal That Came in Stoppage Time: How Ivory Coast's Late Heartbreak Hushed Africa's World Cup Watch Parties in America

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A sprinter crouches in the starting blocks on an athletics track, ready to race.

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The Track That Leads to Glasgow: How Kenya's Commonwealth Trials Stir a Diaspora Waiting in Scotland

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Ghana football supporters in national colours waving flags and celebrating at a FIFA World Cup match

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The Continent in the Bleachers: How a Record Ten African Teams at the American World Cup United a Scattered Diaspora

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The Flags Came Out on 55th Street: How a World Cup on American Soil Became the African Diaspora's Home Tournament

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The Lane That Home Still Watches: Why a Diamond League Night in Doha Belongs to Kenya's Diaspora

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Football supporters packed into a stadium stand, holding a large flag aloft during an international match.

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The Flag They Chose Instead: How a World Cup Opener Split Africa's Diaspora Over South Africa

8 days ago5 min

Football supporters in team colours wave flags and cheer in a packed World Cup stadium crowd.

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The Stadium and the Wall: How the 2026 World Cup Gathered Africa's Diaspora and Locked Out the Family Back Home

10 days ago5 min

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The Crowd That Stayed Home: How a Visa Wall Turned Africa's World Cup Into the Diaspora's Burden

11 days ago5 min