African sport governance & policy analyst || Author -‘Football, Bloody Hell’ in ‘Hear Us Roar’ Anthology | MA @Maisi_erasmus || Currently: PhD @heriotwatt_soss
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Yaani if Kenya will have a regime in power that uses sport for legitimacy (Ruto is doing that) then rest assured the state will finance foreign clubs to come play in the stadiums. But if you have a regime that won’t care about stadiums for legitimacy shenanigans, then private sector will definitely bid to host concerts in the stadiums.
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What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
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CAF, once again, announcing crucial news when much of Africa is asleep. Afande hawa ni wezi!
Le Comité exécutif de la Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) a décidé à l’unanimité, ce jeudi, que la Coupe d’Afrique des Nations (CAN) se tiendra de nouveau tous les deux ans.
Le président de la CAF, Dr Patrice Motsepe, avait annoncé, lors de la Conférence stratégique de la CAF organisée au Cap-Vert du 7 au 9 octobre 2026, que le Comité Exécutif réexaminerait la décision prise l’année dernière de faire passer la CAN à un cycle quadriennal.
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Tonight the contradiction I cannot quite seem to understand and that which will keep me awake is: why does Trump’s Washington treat territorial control, mineral access and military usefulness as bargaining power elsewhere, yet seemingly suspend that logic in the DRC–Rwanda–M23 conflict?
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I hope more of you get to experience better, so your ceiling of imagination isn’t a few shiny infrastructure projects. You need to demand more from your leaders than hosting international events and chasing the optics of development.
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The hard thing about sportwashing is that it is a lazy analytical lens that explains everything and nothing at the same time. It’s assuming that politicians are like children who when they steal sugar, they clean dishes to distract their parents from their sins. There is no hidden play. In Itumbi’s words, IT IS SO DECLASSIFIED!
On Ruto and the Bayern-Ajax match,
the hard thing about sportswashing is that pointing it out and telling people that they are being manipulated rarely works, that's how powerful it is.
Escapism and spectacle in moments like these often overrides political exhaustion.
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The one president in Africa who has a different and unprecedented playbook to sports investment is Kagame of Rwanda. One reason is that his domestic political legitimacy is not on shaky ground, the means by which he sustains it notwithstanding. Which begs the question what his actual play is and whether it will be successful.
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Kenyans on X ridicule villagers for voting for a politician who promises them a road, but one Bayern–Ajax match has them announcing that Ruto is finally working. At least the villager is asking for infrastructure, y’all are being won over by a playbook that other (unserious) presidents in Africa have used before.
Gaddafi’s Libya brought Juventus and Parma to Tripoli (2002). Ben Ali’s Tunisia hosted PSG and Marseille (2010). Ali Bongo’s Gabon hosted PSG and Bordeaux in a stadium built for AFCON (2013). Morocco hosted Lille and Marseille (2011), PSG and Monaco (2017), and Barcelona and Sevilla (2018). Years after Gabon’s stadium-building spree, the IMF found that the investments had added nothing to the country’s productive capacity.
Ruto is just replicating the spectacle, because y’all are apparently too sophisticated to not be bamboozled by water tanks like the villagers. But a football match will do. Tulieni mpangwe.
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As stated before, the nationalism brewing in the country will have its perks and its perils. Exceptionalism is one of its perils. Y’ think you are the first of your kind in Africa to have the state bring European clubs. And then you extend that exceptionalism to your president yet he is just copy pasting a playbook that has existed for a while now.
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Tukisema Ruto ni chess master mlikuwa mnatutusi. Tulieni mpangwe 😂.
The government played a masterclass yesterday hate to admit it haha. Bringing Bayern and Ajax here something that connects the young people more than anything then those opposing it are thoroughly being cooked too organically lol. Adi Methu ameambiwa hataki maskini waone😆😆
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If the US wants to be objective in helping end the long running Rwanda/DRC face-off in Eastern Congo, then sanctioning only one side will not help. The Tshisekedi Govt has its own proxies that threaten Rwanda, so why not sanction all the troublemakers?
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Paying premium dollar to host a friendly when our lecturers are on strike
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What is the alternative? Kenya Vs Morocco for example? African national teams that do not have African born nationals who didn't go through the local pipeline? Aren't y'all seeing that "local football" is literally on its deathbed? The contradictions of globalist football!!!
Kenyan Local Football Fans, let’s hear your honest reactions.
What does this mean to the local league?
#FootballKE || The Voice of Fans
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The devil in the details is the financing model of talanta stadium. Hii ni mwecheche. But juu nikona PhD ya kufanya 🫠na so many analyses in the pipeline, if this interests you, naeza kupatia methodology ama tunaeza collaborate tuelewe nini inafanyika hapa.
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