DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 7 -- THIS week in East African football felt like a Bongo movie director secretly infiltrated CAF headquarters at night. He found the desk with the “Fixtures & Logic” ... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 30 -- THERE was a time when a weekend in Dar es Salaam, Arusha or Moshi felt like an eccentric colonial radio broadcast drifting into real life. Youd hear the muezzin calling the ... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 23 -- THERE are weeks when the universe wakes up, stretches in that leisurely cosmic manner, points directly at you and proclaims with suspicious excitement, “Yes, you. Today... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 16 -- WELL, my dear readers, let us begin by meeting that most common creature of modern society The armchair critic. You know the type. They sit comfortably at home or in a radio ... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 19 -- THERES an old saying whispered around East African football circles, usually after the Taifa Stars have suffered yet another heartbreak: “Tunahitaji miujiza.” We ... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 5 -- ON any given weekend in Tanzania, just as the rooster crows and the sun is still stretching itself awake over the Indian Ocean, you can hear the pounding of rubber soles on ta... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 28 -- THERE are nations that take the word “victory” and build cathedrals around it. There are others that hear the sound of triumph and immediately reach for the bras... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 21 -- IN Tanzania there are football tournaments and then there are Tanzanian football tournaments. And in between, there are tournaments that simply get swallowed whole by that ... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 14 -- IT was the sort of night when you wish the floodlights would blow out, the referee would abandon the game, and the crowd would be refund ed with free crates of Safari Lager ... Read More