The 10 best goals scored by African players in the Premier League

Ever since Rupert Murdoch invented football in 1992 (see Fivers passim), African players from all over the continent have lit up the English Premier League and helped turn the competition…..

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December 5, 2011

Africa's best soccer football players are West African

On January 10 next year FIFA will announce its World XI 2011. The result, they remind us, will be based on voting by over 50,000 professional soccer players from around the…..

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April 7, 2010

Lagos bleeds Chelsea Blue

The BBC debuts a new TV series this month, “Welcome to Lagos,” on the “ingenuity” of poor people in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos.The Observer‘s acting arts editor, Akin Ojumu, who…..

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December 31, 2009

FILM / "FOOTBALL FABLES"

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.4323016&w=425&h=350&fv=clip_id%3D5568089%26server%3Dvimeo.com%26autoplay%3D0%26fullscreen%3D1%26md5%3D0%26show_portrait%3D0%26show_title%3D0%26show_byline%3D0%26context%3Duser%3A651551%26context_id%3D%26force_embed%3D0%26multimoog%3D%26color%3D00ADEF%26force_info%3Dundefined] The trailer for “Football Fables” by English director Baf Akoto about the globalization of Ghanaian football.

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December 2, 2009

AFRICA'S WORLD CUP?

Tomorrow is the draw for the 2010 World Cup in Cape Town. Apparently Charlize Theron, the South African actress with the fake American accent will also be there. Can anyone…..

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