East Africans suck at football, and it is not our fault; blame it on the cows
Though East Africans have utterly hopeless footballing legs, they use their legs in ruthlessly effective ways elsewhere; when it comes to long-distance. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
It is that time in the cycle. It’s Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) is taking place in Ivory Coast. This means it is time for East African heartbreak and grumbling.
As one long-suffering East African football fan noted, Southern Africa is represented by four countries — Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia — five if you count the Democratic Republic of Congo. The wider West Africa by a whole 11 (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal). North Africa by almost all the countries of that region — Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.
