Steff Ndei is a writer and analyst at the intersection between sport and geopolitics in Africa. Her analysis has appeared in Play the Game, Nairobi Law Monthly, and Debunk Media. Her essay, Football Bloody Hell, was published in the Hear Us Roar anthology of emerging global football writers, and her work has been included in the Centre for Sport & Human Rights reading list (2025).
She has provided expert commentary to Trouw (Netherlands) on African football talent pipeline and to Follow the Money (EU) on the partnership between the European Union and Confederation of African football. Her Play the Game analysis, Behind the stadium boom: Why foreign-born players fill African football teams (2025), was subsequently republished internationally by Prachatai (Thailand).
Why “Interstice”?
An interstice is the narrow space between two structures, and Steff’s interests live in those in-betweens: the gaps between sport governance & political economy, between academic abstraction & on-the-ground strategy, between existential musings & pragmatic planning and between Kenya & the global circuits that she’s traveled to and lived in. Interstice is therefore the workshop she probes and writes about these seams.