Africa Rising, but still ignored. President Obama is on his second visit to Africa, his choice of nations to visit was tricky, he avoided Kenya, the land of his father and chose nations that were safe. A state visit by an American president is seen as a papal blessing to his visitors, Macky Sall of Senegal basked in the glow of Obama, he was hailed as a new leader that represents Africa.
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The Ivory Coast international and Manchester City midfielder has today been named the 2013 African footballer of the year by BBC. Yaya Toure who has been nominated in the past four years beat John Obi Mikel, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jonathan Pitroipa and Victor Moses to the crown. On receiving the award, the humble Ivory Coast giant, also the current official Confederation Of African Football player of the year had the following to say.
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Today, Fc Barcelona and Argentina forward Leo Messi beat Gerd Muller's record of goals scored in a single calendar year. During the 1972 season, Muller scored 85 goals in 60 games and Messi broke this 40 year old standing record with 66 games played. Considering that there's still a lot of games to play this year, only the soccer 'gods' can tell where Messi's goal tally (which will be a record to reckon) will be come January 1st 2013.
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Born Alice Zeluji (Zeluji is the same as Theluji; except that Zeluji is with a Congolese Swahili accent) in the Democratic republic of Congo, Kivu Province, Alicios has quickly claimed the respect of her peers, fans, music executives, industry producers with her first signle. It is safe to say that she’s now the really deal in East, Central Africa.
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