MAKHUDU SEFARA | Fifa boss’s remarks were wrong, but Africa must stop scoring own goals
Africans can throw shade and insults at bigots in the world, but we have a responsibility to ourselves
27 January 2022 - 20:37
Many have responded angrily to Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s remarks about how soccer could help reduce the shameful incidents of Africans dying in the Mediterranean in search of a better life in Europe.
His offending remark was: “We need to find ways to include the whole world to give hope to Africans so that they don’t need to cross the Mediterranean to find maybe a better life but, more probably, death in the sea.”..
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