Steve Bloomfield - HOW AFRICA EXPLAINS FOOTBALL, AND FOOTBALL EXPLAINS AFRICA August 26, 2010

Football fans know there’s a lot more to the game than just the scoreline, and perhaps nowhere could this be truer than in Africa – particularly as 2010 is the year the World Cup finally arrived there. Steve Bloomfield, a former Africa correspondent for the Independent, has written Africa United, charting the build-up to the World Cup and attempting to explain the deep social and political significance of the game to the African people.