… there will be football. It’s a week till the World Cup 2010 starts in South Africa. All of Africa is a-buzz with energy and excitement. The favourite World Cup songs are starting to be played endlessly over Ghanaian radio waves – K’naan’s Waving Flag, Shakira’s Waka Waka (my two favorites). And the tv commercials [...]
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Bring a bit of Ghana love to Malawi
June 2010 – Akuzike and her cousin, showing some Ghana pride during the Ghana-Germany match.
Fate of a Foreign Football
One of people’s favorite gifts to send overseas are footballs. Everyone loves football (at least outside of America), so of course it makes perfect sense. The problem (beyond undercutting a local market and sellers, promoting a sense of dependency and Western images) are that these balls are REALLY not built to withstand the enthusiam of [...]
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