Promoting Africa
In the days leading up to the Ineos 159 challenge in Vienna, the social media was awash with scientific demonstrations of how it was virtually impossible for one Eliud Kipchoge, the man who set the World Marathon record in Berlin at 2:01:39 in the 2018 Berlin Marathon, to run a sub-two hour marathon. The arguments…
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Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge made athletics history in Austria on Saturday as he became the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours, passing a milestone few thought could be reached for decades if at all. "Kipchoge tore up the specially tailored course over 4.4 laps of the Prater Hauptallee, a park in central…
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Sporting events and other related activities bring people together. Sporting events market and elevate a country’s statute in the global society. Football is one of the most loved games in the world. Indeed, the FIFA World Cup is one of the most prestigious and renowned tournaments in the world, pitting teams from different parts of…
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Toronto Raptors star Serge Ibaka, brought the 2019 NBA championship trophy to his home country, the Republic of the Congo. Ibaka shared a video, on his social media accounts, of him, eating a full meal at a restaurant he used to visit to beg for leftovers some 15 years ago. He returned to eat a…
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Simthandile ‘Sim Tiger’ Tshabalala, has shown such outstanding talent on the golf course that the world will not be able to not notice him ! Humble beginnings Simthandile Tshabalala learned how to play golf from YouTube videos he was watching with his father, Bonginkosi Tshabalala. The young Sim tried several sports, tennis, swimming, cricket, soccer,…
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Team Acrobot from West Africa Ghana took first place in the Senior Game Division at the Robofest World Championships, held Saturday May 18 at Lawrence Technological University, in Southfield, Michigan. Team Acrobot from the Ghana Robotics Academy Foundation Team Acro-Bot, nine girls from the Methodist Girls’ High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana, were…
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Three African players, Mohamed Salah, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sadio Mane are joint-winners of the Premier League Golden Boot 2018/19. The race to be crowned the English Premier League's leading scorer this season was great for Africa. Indeed, it ended in a three-way tie as the African trio of Sadio Mane (Senegal), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), and…
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