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Forty-five years after Pelé's 1977 prediction that an African team would win the Football World Cup before 2000, the latest World Cup and recent continental and international tournaments show why his prediction looks increasingly wrong and suggest that an African team is unlikely ever to win the event.
Fans of Senegal national team watch the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group A football match between Qatar and Senegal on a giant screen at a fan zone in Dakar on November 25, 2022. (Photo by SEYLLOU / AFP)
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AFD Country Director, Xavier Muron (left); French Ambassador to Nigeria, Her Excellency, Emmanuelle Blatmann; Executive Chairman, Lagos State Sports Commission, Sola Aiyepeku and Vice President NBA Africa & Country Head, NBA Nigeria, Gbemisola Abudu at the official launch of the Jr. NBA & AFD Basketball Experience Programme in Lagos
They also discuss how his first novel "John Crow's Devil" was rejected more than 70 times, causing him to burn the manuscript; the life-changing effect of winning the Booker Prize for his third novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"; and how the all-white cast of "The Hobbit" triggered him into writing an epic story set in Africa.
Asked about the COP27 climate conference that will take place in November in Egypt, Smith admitted that "there could be tension" between developing and developed countries over climate financing. "What I do think we might see at COP is a more unified voice from developing countries in terms of them holding their ground on the expectation that these resources be delivered," she added.
The Joola disaster had multiple causes. The ship, managed by the Senegalese navy, was in bad condition. It was overloaded, with four times more passengers than the maximum allowed. The vehicles in the hold were not secured. The captain of the ferry, who himself died, no doubt made a navigation error.