You often don’t get to have dinner at the Hilton Hotel, especially not on a student budget!
In the final semester of our degree programme at the University of Nairobi, we were eager to finish the course and ready to be unleashed into the world of work as…
It just occurred to me that Kenya was once an African football powerhouse going by CAF records. For some reason, I thought the constant complaining about the state was our game was baseless. I could not put my finger on a time when Harambee…
She asked me which team I used to play for. I started to explain that I was not one of the legends, “I run The Football Foundation for Africa. It’s an organisation..”
By Odindo Ayieko
When his friend, a former teammate at Strathmore University football club was gunned down by police five years ago in Tanzania on suspicion of engaging in criminal activities, Brian Wesaala decided to take a new path in life.
Wesaala was working as an IT specialist in…
Reading Time: 6 minutesBack when I was a boy, about eight or nine years old, video games were a rare spectacle. Few households owned a console, Atari, Nintendo or SEGA. Therefore, it was common to assemble at a friend’s house every once in a while, usually when parents were away, to engage…
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn July 21st 2009, I left my country for the first time in my life. I was bubbling with energy ready to take up an opportunity that had virtually fallen on my laps. Getting on a plane was never really my dream, but when the opportunity came, I took…
Kenyans breathed a sigh of relief – “we are better off without international football, let’s get our house in order first”.
Such was the man — helpful, understanding, ready to listen (and TALK), efficient, DIPLOMATIC, forthright — Ambassador Anthony Andanje (Balozi).
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn Washington, D.C., in September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and formally launched “The Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the quest to unite Africans on the continent with their brothers and sisters in the diaspora. In essence, Ghana rolled…
In Kenya and many other countries, football provides the largest platform for sports betting. Combine that with Internet penetration through mobile, you have the next big thing if not already the big thing.