Promoting Africa
The 2018 Commonwealth Games are currently taking place in Australia, and have welcomed more than 6,600 athletes and team officials from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories. Here are a few highlights from some of our African teams attending the event: South Africa Caster Semenya Caster Semenya’s smashing win in which she broke the world record…
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At the age of 27, Salma al-Majidi has broken a lot of barriers as she has now been acknowledged by FIFA as the first Sudanese and Arab woman to coach a men’s football team in the Arab world. A drastic change of mentality In 2012, Sudan’s religious authority, the Islamic Fiqh Council, banned the formation…
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Young South African woman Samukelisiwe Cele is breaking with prejudices by showing her country that black women are capable of excelling in surfing, a sport dominated by male, and often considered a whites only sport. Samukelisiwe Cele has always been a huge fun of water sports: “I just loved water sports, I used to be a really…
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Ivory Coast sprinter Murielle Ahouré won the world title at the 60m World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England, ahead of compatriot Marie-Josée Ta Lou, who finished second. In Friday's race, Ahouré crossed the finish line in 6 "97, ahead of Ta Lou (7 sec 05), 2nd in the 100m and 200m at the 2017 London…
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Salah is the quickest Liverpool player to score premier league goals in Liverpool history. He beat the likes of Michael Owen, Fernando Torres, Luis Suarez and other club Legends. In the game that Mo Salah broke the record against Spurs, the Egyptian’s heroics appeared to have given Liverpool all three points before a late penalty…
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Morocco's national football team won the 5th African Nations Championship (CHAN) on Sunday, February 4, 2018 with a 4-0 victory over Nigeria. They become the first host nation to claim the African Nations Championship (CHAN) title. The star of the night was Zakaria Hadraf, the right winger who swept Morocco into the lead with the last…
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Kelechi Iheanacho became the first player to score a goal decided by video assistant referee in the FA cup third round replay. Iheanacho opened the scoring, with a beautiful strike from Islam Slimani’s pass. The main talking point of the game came when the Leicester city striker initially had a goal disallowed for offside from…
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