Africa

When considering the impact of ethics in sport, the mega-stadia constructed especially for the 2010 World Cup certainly is a controversial talking point. Many South Africans have expressed the opinion that the funds spent on...[more]

A new study entitled “Using Football for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa”, has found that football-based programmes aiming to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS has proved to be very successful.[more]

With Mogadishu, the lawless capital of Somalia experiencing daily armed confrontations, the country’s national volleyball federation successfully ended the 24th men’s volleyball championship on Tuesday afternoon.[more]

In case you missed it BBC Newsnight has announced that FIFA was warned that the Nigerian team may have been vulnerable to fixing games at the 2010 South Africa World Cup.[more]

The president of Somalia’s transitional federal government (TFG) Sheik Sharif sheik Ahmed on Monday vehemently condemned overnight’s twin blasts in the Ugandan capital Kambala which killed at least 64 world cup fans.[more]

At least two persons died and three others were wounded in a grenade attack on a house where young Somalis were secretly watching a world cup game in the Elasha biyaha neighborhood south of Mogadishu last night.[more]

This paper, by Professor Michael Schatzberg examines the microcosm of football by looking at the complicated relationship between the state, non-political societal organizations, and international institutions exemplified by a...[more]

The Somali football federation has vehemently welcomed the reinstatement of the country’s sports minister Khadija Mohamed Diriye over the weekend.[more]

Somali football referees will have voting rights in the future soccer elections in the country.[more]

Can one say that Ghana is Africa’s team? This is the question Brendan O'Neill poses in the always interesting online magazine Spiked. And it is an important question.[more]