Women’s boxing in Olympic storm: who is Algeria’s Imane Khelif and what are the issues she’s facing?
By Anne Tjønndal Imane Khelif from Algeria is one of two women boxers at the 2024 Paris Olympics making the news – as ugly issues of gender testing and testosterone...
By Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu Kenyan running star Faith Kipyegon is considered one of the greatest 1,500m athletes the world has ever seen. If she wins her third...
Who were the first Africans at the Olympics? The disturbing story of two 1904 marathon runners
By Francois Cleophas Who were the first Africans to compete in the modern Olympic Games? The answer to that question reveals the surprising story of...
Boxing girls in Nairobi learn to punch
In a boxing gym in a poor neighborhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, young women learn to punch away. “Men have become afraid of...
By Robert Ocholla One of the enduring curiosities of Kenya’s sporting scene has been the inability of our national soccer team Harambee Stars to make...
Africa’s reliable disappointments: Football
By Robert Ocholla The 2014 FIFA World Cup is over and as the fever dies in the rest of the World, congratulations are in order...
Football: God does not Love Africa!
By Robert Ocholla Every four years the World is treated to a congregation that the United Nations, all Religions and Politicians are enviable of. This...
