Sanaga Peregrinations

Football lessons from African Exiles (Source Financial Times s via African Unchained ) "Football is one of the most visible signs of Africa’s skills exodus: the very best African players are quickly snapped up to play for European leagues where they have become ubiquitous. They represent just a tiny proportion of the skilled Africans of all trades and professions who leave the continent. According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, about 27,000 Africans left for industrialised countries between 1960 and 1975. Now, an equivalent number leaves the continent every year." [...]  It is perhaps paradoxical to talk of benefit and the brain drain at the same time. But the brain drain is not necessarily bad for African countries. It is every motivated and ambitious person’s dream to compete with the best in their field: footballers want to play in the top leagues, students want to study at top universities, professionals want to compete and learn from the best amo...

Il y en a beaucoup qui se le demandent, mais la chaîne de sports ESPN croît savoir qu'il défendre le maillot vert-rouge-jaune aux prochains jeux olympiques à Pékin. “I think I am going to be called, but because I’m here, I don’t have all the information,” said Eto’o, a striker from Cameroon, on Saturday to the New York Times . “ I have heard rumors that they want me,” Eto’o said. “Whether I want to or can go or not is not yet certain. It is always an honor to defend the jersey of your country in a tournament like the Olympics. It’s not something for every day. And you know I have won there, against Ronaldinho." Concernant cses intentions de rester au Barça l'année prochaine, Eto'o a été plus qu'évasif préférant contourner la question délicate de son avenir en répondant qu'il était off et en vacances. Eto’o, too, who has scored 77 goals in 108 games for Barcelona since 2004, could be ticketed out of Spain after the club’s new coach, Pep Guardiola, said that E...

Beaucoup de nos jeunes rêvent de devenir le prochain Eto'o Fils (dont l'avenir au Barça est encore incertain ) et d'être la prochaine star du football Camerounais. Un article sur la fièvre footballistique qui touche notre pays, intitulé Field of Dreams dans le Time Magazine relate comment ces espoirs peuvent vite tourner à la désillusion pour des centaines de jeunes qui tentent leur chance et s'en remettent à des intermédiaires peu scrupuleux dans la perspective de se faire recruter par un grand club européen. Leaving. That word holds rare promise in this central African country. In a region with outsized corruption and limited opportunities, leaving Cameroon — and the continent — can transform lives of grinding poverty and rewrite an entire family's history. And among Yaoundé's one million or so residents, who live mostly in cramped shanties with patchy electricity and little indoor plumbing, it is football that holds more promise — and potential peril — th...

ok la CAN 2008 c'est fini. Le résultat des Lions Indomptables était honorable quoique la déception est forcément là. Petit cadeau pour les lecteurs de Sanaga des souvenirs en images de la CAN 2008. Aux images des matches et du terrain, j'ai préféré al vue côté gradins et vous avouerez qu'elle ne manque pas de piquant :) Avion affrêté par le sponsor officiel pour convoyer une partie de son personnel au Ghana. Il est des fois où je me dis que je devrais me trouver un boulot tout aussi cool... Celle-ci a pour le moins un côté truculent... Qui sont-ils et où vont-ils? Your guess is as good as mine! Mille mercis à Serge pour les images. Tags: CAN 2008 , ACN 2008 , image de la CAN 2008 , CAN 2008 Ghana

Ok on est en finale . Surprenants que sont nos lions! Je me suis laissée dire que le match était assez ennuyeux, mais seul le résultat compte; Rendez-vous est donc pris dimanche pour la finale qui opposera les Lions Indomptables aux Pharaons d'Egypte. Comme un air de déjà vu... Quelles sont vos prédictions pour la finale? Petit widget sympa dégoté lors de mes pérégrinations internautiques, un résumé en images des matches de la CAN 2008. Tags: Lions indomptables , football , CAN 2008 , Coupe d'Afrique des Nations

The Highs and Lows of African Oil (Time Magazine). A small account of " the promise and pitfalls of business on the world's second fastest-growing continent. Africa? That's right. In October, the IMF predicted that sub-Saharan Africa's real GDP will grow 6.75% in 2008, versus 7.2% in Asia, 3.2% in Europe and 1.9% in the U.S. Growth rates in several African countries evoke the Asian tigers of two decades ago, prompting keen international interest. " Spotlight: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – Nigerian reformer (Financial Times). Ok, ok I am a big fan of her, but one must say she did a great job while she was Nigeria's finance minister. Now she up to a lot more : " For the past year, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala has chaired advisory boards on Africa for Renaissance Capital, the Russian investment bank seeking to repeat in Africa the success it had in the former Soviet states during the 1990s. She has set up an opinion poll back home as well as a $60m fund to promote African w...