Patson Daka is loving life at Leicester City and he is cheering up a nation dismayed by another disappointing qualification campaign, according to the director of his boyhood club.The young striker is back in his homeland to complete Zambia’s matches in World Cup qualification, with a home-game against Mauritania, followed by a 6,000-mile trip to face Group B leaders, Tunisia, on Tuesday.And Lee Kawanu, the director of Kafue Celtic, a club 30 miles from the Zambian capital of Lusaka where it all began for Daka, says the Foxes forward will receive a good reception, despite the ‘Copper Bullets’ having almost…
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Issued on: 16/05/2022 – 00:20 A group of cartoonists from around the world assembled for the Cartooning for Peace initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, this month to raise awareness of the power of press cartoons in promoting democracy on the African continent. “We are in Kenya because we have a program with cartoons for peace we want to present, how we can bring peace with cartoons,” said French cartoonist Erick Traunt, speaking at a roundtable at the RFI Kiswahili offices in Nairobi.“Cartoons are a very powerful tool; and humor is a good weapon.”Cartooning is an art that has been playing a…
Sweden is also expected to follow Finland’s application to join the NATO military alliance.The Finnish government has officially announced its intention to join NATO, as Sweden’s ruling party held a decisive meeting that could pave the way for a joint application to the military alliance. Less than three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Finland’s announcement on Sunday is a stunning reversal of Finland’s policy on military non-alignment dating back more than 75 years. Sweden, which has been militarily non-aligned for more than two centuries, is expected to follow suit with a similar announcement, possibly on Monday. “This…
On Sunday, May 8, the top nine design finalists from the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA) Design For Stars Competition showcased their collection and pieces at the first-ever AMVCA runway show. The designers – Amy Aghomi, Azeezat Alawusa, Ezioghene Egbelefiyo, Felix Asuquo, Ikechukwu Nwosu, Obinna Omeruo, Omowunmi Pilot, and Oseluese Okpamen were chosen out of several entries submitted for the competition. They went through two weeks of intensive training from A-list designers – Lanre Da Silva Ajayi of Lanre Da Silva Ajayi, Mai Atafo of ATAFO and Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture to create unique pieces for the show.…
Ted’s Rwanda Trip Report Rwanda Air fly 3 times a week from London to Kigali and as you fly into this small city you realise why they call it the ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’. Unlike a number of other African capitals, you quickly notice there is almost no rubbish anywhere which is partly as a result of a strict ban on any plastic bag since 2008, but also ‘Umuganda’, where everyone takes part clearing up the streets on the last Saturday of every month. In fact, Rwanda is a very forward thinking country producing all of its own electricity…
We have reached a phase in Africa’s post-independence history where we cannot off the top of our head count the number of retired heads of states who are living peacefully at home or have quietly passed on into the great beyond. This is no mean achievement for the continent. Following independence from colonial rule, presidential transition was one of the things we in Africa often did badly; the tradition had long been for leaders to be shot out of power. This has changed. The eulogizing through gritted teeth of the 1970s has given way to far more elaborate and socially…
Sports Minister, Chief Sunday Dare and the President of Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Tonobok Okowa were excited by the performance of the athletes, as the 3rd AFN All Comers came to a spectacular end yesterday in Abuja. One of the major highlights of the event was Johnson Nnamani’s 46.24s new personal best run in the men’s 400meters. 18-year-old Nnamani, a member of the gold winning Team Nigeria mixed relay quartet at the World U20 Championship in Nairobi, Kenya, last year, needed to run faster than the 46.66seconds he ran in Lagos last month at the second edition of the…
Located in the West African nation of Mali, the name Timbuktu has come to embody the idea of a distant place, but this city was once famed as a center of learning, religion and trade. Today it’s still known for its imposing earthen mosques, and the hundreds of thousands of scholarly manuscripts held in public and private collections.Those manuscripts have had a turbulent past, threatened by Islamist rebels and irrevocable loss. Now, thanks to local residents and global academics, over 40,000 pages spanning the 11th to the 20th Century have been preserved for good in Google Arts and Culture’s “Mali…
Aymane El Hassouni of Wydad Athletic Club gets his pass away during the CAF Champions League 2021/22 Semifinal 1st Leg match between Petro de Luanda and Wydad Athletic Club held at the 11 November Stadium in Luanda, Angola on 7 May 2022 ©Ampe Rogerio/BackpagePix by Staff Reporter Thursday May 12, 2022. 16:45 Wydad Casablanca will be looking to maintain their unbeaten home record in the CAF Champions League this season when Petro de Luanda visit the Mohammed V Stadium on Friday in the semi-final, second leg.Kick-off is at 9pm CAT (SA, GMT+2)The Red Castle put one foot in the final…
Christians repeat the phrase “in the world, but not of the world” often enough that many will be surprised to find out that it’s not actually in the Bible. It’s a concept that transcends denominational splits and theological disagreements. You can hear it in churches across the world. But if it’s not lifted directly from the Bible, then where does it come from? What does it mean? Should we aim at it? And, perhaps most importantly, what does it look like? Finding Our Place In The World Is Complicated As I’ve noted, the exact phrase “in the world, but not…