More Than a Match: Africa’s Moment on the World Stage

I can still vividly remember watching the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy, my whole family jammed into our living room. I have been a football or as my American colleagues insist on calling it, “soccer” fan, since birth. The World Cup means everything to many young kids in Africa in general and in Morocco in particular. Back in my hometown, Marrakech, everyone watched the World Cup,…