nehandaradio - 13 days ago

By Luke Tamborinyoka Today is Africa Day; that great day when we revel about our beloved continent and its people. As a football fan, I am proud that last year, two great African sons Sadio Mane and Mohammed Salah who had dazzled the world with their sublime football skills in the English Premiership, showcased their talent when their Liverpool team clashed with Real Madrid in the European Champions League Final 72 hours after Africa Day. And at the Men’s Football World Cup Finals in November in Qatar last year, Rwanda’s Salima Mukaransanga was among the first ever three female referees to officiate at the most-watched global football fiesta. Salima, Africa’s girl child, was officiating at the global football showcase, far away from Kampala or rural Uganda where she probably grew engaging in child play games (mahumbwe). That an African girl child would blow the whistle at world football’s grand bonanza was unthinkable only a few years ago. This year’s Africa Day comes in the wake of a growing optimism around the globe about our beloved continent, never mind the negative reality that those of us who slug it out on Africa’s soil have to endure every day. Yet we all love our Africa. We were born here, we grew up here. And we will die here, never mind that we continue to receive the body bags of patriotic sons and daughters who have died elsewhere in search of greener pastures which their countries failed to afford them by dint of the misgovernance and corruption by the political elite and the oligarchs connected to them. They too wanted to live and die here but it was not to be. The post Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye: Africa Day: Is our continent rising? (Republished) appeared first on Nehanda Radio.

Latest News

Hashtags:   

Beast

 | 

Africa

 | 

continent

 | 

rising

 | 

Republished

 | 

Sources