Breaking the Sidelines: Women Rewriting the Story of Sport
A little detour, I think one of the best pieces of advice I have received time and again has been, “Invest in yourself.”
A little detour, I think one of the best pieces of advice I have received time and again has been, “Invest in yourself.”
Rose dreams of setting up infrastructure and systems to support, mentor, and equip girls with skill sets to thrive in the basketball world. “I want to get as many girls involved in basketball as I can.” With every minute Rose spends on the court, she wears the South Sudanese jersey with pride.
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When I got a short playing stint with Makerere University, I was equally shocked about the challenges we had to shoulder as athletes. First, we had one basketball court used for practice and game day. The University has two outdoor basketball courts, but one (pool court) was “kidnapped” by the community and turned into a pickup spot.
Baby Je is now 15 years old. He has impaired speech (during the surgery, the brain didn’t receive enough oxygen), he is on the autism spectrum and takes medication each day of his life to keep him afloat. But you want to know the most beautiful thing that has happened beyond baby Je. Three years ago, my mother, frustrated by how autistic children are treated in society (having seen the treatment baby Je received in public spaces), set out to create a group of mothers who care about their children on the autism spectrum.
I was recently pondering why AFCON is a top tournament on the continent, but it’s still struggling beyond just the issue addressed in this article. Particularly, I am puzzled when most Africans ask questions like, “Is AFCON a qualification tournament for the World Cup?” Or when an African diehard for the English Premier League states, “I don’t even know anything about AFCON apart from the fact that one or two of our players won’t be playing the next couple of EPL games.”
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast