Sport

Malawian Under-19 Women’s Cricket Team breaks through thick glass ceiling, one game at a time. Blantyre, Malawi – Vivek Ganesan founded the Cricket Academy in 2010. [read more…]

LIBREVILLE, Gabon – Only a tiny minority of African soccer players achieve stardom and the rich rewards that go with it. Some of them will [read more…]

Cameroon won their fifth Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Gabon on Sunday and it was arguably their greatest triumph. World Cup star Roger Milla [read more…]

Africa’s ultimate football prize, the biennial African Cup of Nations (Afcon), kicked-off on Saturday 14 January in Gabon. Its 31st edition, Afcon 2017 is not [read more…]

From superhero masks to acrobatic flips, there’s nobody quite like Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang when it comes to goal celebrations. And with 15 goals in just 12 [read more…]

Riyad Mahrez has been crowned the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2016. Fans from across the world voted for the Algeria and Leicester midfielder [read more…]

Cameroon forward Gaëlle Enganamouit, right, celebrates her second goal against Ecuador at the World Cup in Canada in 2015. Photograph: Andy Clark/AFP/Getty Images   Shortly [read more…]

At the 2016 NBA Draft Combine, Thon Maker recorded a 32”no-step vertical jump—the record for any player 6’11” or taller. Photo: Randi Berez for The [read more…]

Out of the thousands of young football hopefuls, only a tiny fraction like Didier Drogba, will get a chance to migrate abroad to play football [read more…]

Fifa Secretary General Fatma Samoura has been in her post for three months The most powerful woman in global football is not the chief executive [read more…]