The Diary of a Bald Black Man

The “IT professional” turned sports entrepreneur serving Africa’s youths through education and football.

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Dinner at the Hilton Hotel

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...

My 30 Years of AFCON

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...

My Day in Moscow

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.."...

Foundation Seeks to Empower Players when they walk off the Football Pitch

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...

The Sausages Analogy

Back 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...

The Year of Return – Part Two

On 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...

The Chairmen – Politicians, Administrators and Businessmen

Kenyans breathed a sigh of relief – “we are better off without international football, let’s get our house in order first”...

Farewell Balozi – Amb. Anthony Andanje

Such was the man — helpful, understanding, ready to listen (and TALK), efficient, DIPLOMATIC, forthright — Ambassador Anthony Andanje (Balozi)...

The Year of Return – Part One

In 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...