The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday in Abuja released a list of 26 players picked for the country’s participation in the 2023 Africa Under-17 Cup of Nations in Algeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the list has 16 players from various football academies across the country, while the rest 10 are from amateur clubsides. Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets, who are five-time world champions, are scheduled to arrive in the Algerian city of Constantine on Sunday night for their final preparations for the competition. NAN reports that the team was earlier scheduled to finalise their preparations in Germany, ahead of the…
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AiW note: This year, Sunday 23rd April is World Book Night. Running over the evening of the UNESCO International Day of the Book— whose theme this year is indigenous languages — World Book Night is a UK-sprung celebration of reading and books run by The Reading Agency (a UK charity), with a focus on reaching and inspiring people to become more regular, confident and enthusiastic readers. Books selected for the World Book Night list are being gifted through reading and books organisations — including to prisons, libraries, colleges, hospitals, care homes and homeless shelters — and there’s a host of…
Did you know that the city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, was once home to the largest Black Caribbean population in the country? This can be dated back to the mid-20th century when Caribbean immigrants arrived in the UK as part of the Windrush Generation (when thousands of immigrants from the Caribbean were invited to the UK between 1948 and 1971 to help rebuild the country after World War II). Many of these immigrants settled in Birmingham and other major cities, seeking employment opportunities and a better life for themselves and their families. When the Caribbean nationals arrived on…
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles are likely to face Brazil and Argentina in the group stage of the 2023 U-20 World Cup. On Thursday, 20 April, FIFA unveiled on their Twitter handle the pots ahead of Friday’s draw for this year’s edition which will be hosted in Argentina. The Flying Eagles were placed in pot three with Uzbekistan, Japan, Iraq, Honduras and Fiji. The implication is that Ladan Bosso’s side can be placed in the same group as host Argentina who are in pot one and Brazil in pot two. Aside from the two South American football giants, there is the possibility…
Traditional musical instruments are slowly but surely losing their influence as young people embrace more western and urban sounds. The Orutu is no different. The single-stringed fiddle is held horizontally while being played using a bow.The Luo are known for their strong tradition of stringed instruments and are famous for their skills with harps and lyres. Traditionally, women were not allowed to play instruments like the nyatiti (a musical instrument that typically has eight strings) and orutu. But Labdi Ommes takes pride in breaking this gender barrier and becoming a professional orutu player, a rarity in the community…[more]
While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom. Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash When the news filtered through that stalwart novelist, essayist, memoirist, and feminist Lauretta Ngcobo had died in 2015 at the age of 84, a colleague and I lamented that yet another black South Africa women writer would be consigned to obscurity. To counter this tendency of black women’s intellectual work disappearing from history, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and I decided to co-edit a special edition of…
Napoli’s forward Victor Osimhen (L) and Milan’s defender Fikayo Tomori (R) in action during the UEFA Champions League quarter final second leg soccer match SSC Napoli vs AC Milan in Naples, Italy, 18 April 2023. EPA/CESARE ABBATE by Staff Reporter Wednesday Apr 19, 2023. 13:00 AC Milan defender Fikayo Tomori has revealed how he battled to stop SC Napoli striker Victor Osimhen on Tuesday night.Tomori, who is of Nigerian descent, helped Milan hold Napoli to a 1-1 draw in an UEFA Champions League quarter-final second-leg clash played in Naples with Osimhen scoring in stoppage time.Therefore, Milan won the tie 2-1…
Comment on this storyCommentThe three Gupta brothers have come to embody the corruption that blighted South African President Jacob Zuma’s almost nine-year rule. They allegedly used their friendship with the president and business ties to his son, Duduzane, to influence cabinet appointments and illicitly secure state contracts worth billions of dollars. They fled South Africa for Dubai in early 2018 after the ruling party forced Zuma to quit and were charged with graft later that year. Two of the Gupta brothers were arrested in Dubai in 2022 but they were freed after a court refused to extradite them to face…
The year of 2022 witnessed a landmark setback for U.S. human rights, a report on human rights violations in the United States issued by China said on Tuesday. The report, titled “The Record on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2022,” was released by the State Council Information Office and is based on research, published data and media reports about the human rights record in the U.S. The report notes that chronic diseases, such as money politics, racial discrimination, gun and police violence, as well as wealth polarization, are rampant in the U.S., a country that labels itself…
The VIDAL boot factory was founded in September 2016 in Douala, the brand offers men a range of shoes: Hand Grade.The VIDAL manufacturer has kept the original case which guarantees the durability of its know-how. The specificity of the Goodyear fitting of these shoes, which combines style, comfort, and longevity, goes back to the techniques of the 19th century.It requires special expertise to carry out more than a hundred manual operations requiring around two weeks of work.As a local Cameroonian company managed by a young entrepreneur, VIDAL is committed to maintaining the highest standards of traditional craftsmanship, quality, and service…