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
Dar es Salaam, Sept. 7 -- IT was supposed to be East Africas grand moment of togetherness, the longawaited debutante ball where Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda waltzed arm in arm to show off to the rest of... Read More
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug. 24 -- Two down, one to go THAT was the headline I had lined up, gleaming in the draft folder, waiting to be uploaded with the smugness of a man who knows his neighbours will not sl... Read More
TANZANIA, Aug. 17 -- FOR generations, East Africa football fans have believed, with the certainty of a grandmother refusing to change her ugali recipe, that football is governed by exactly seventeen r... Read More
TANZANIA, Aug. 10 -- Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are currently co-hosting the Total Energies CHAN tournament across their stadiums in the three proud East African nations. And so far, believe me, all i... Read More
TANZANIA, Aug. 3 -- East Africa is hosting what might be the most unpredictable football tournament of the year, and no one is entirely sure how we got here. CHAN 2024, with 19 nations congregated to... Read More
TANZANIA, July 27 -- East Africa is about to catch a football fever so contagious, even the cows in Arusha are mooing in formation. From the sun-kissed shores of Dar es Salaam to the hilltop buzz of ... Read More