Is the final of the African Champions League of 1971 and Asante Kotoko is leading, until the corrupted referee gives a penalty to the home team, Englebert. The coach of Asante wants to pull back the team, to protest, but the goalkeeper Robert Mensah stops him. He’s got his magic hat, but the opponents say it’s juju, therefore against the rules. If he will defend the goal, he will have to take it off…
Africa, magic and football: the curse of Ivory Coast
Africa has the stereotype of being the most superstitious continent, since the colonizers defined “juju” the sum of beliefs, traditions and rituals. Actually they are banned, to give a more secular image, but somehow they still can have their powerful effects…
Joan Mulholland, the Southern white woman who challenged KKK
Usually only leaders of revolutions are those who “make History”, for better or worse. So, a Joan Mulholland is less famous for the majority than a Martin Luther King or a Malcolm X, but is also and especially for people like her that those fights succeeded. Because she was white and from the South, an area which was generally more conservative than the average…