The Women’s Game in Africa: ‘Zanzibar Soccer Queens’ and Other Tales


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“An oft repeated trope of Africa is barefoot children playing joyously with a handmade soccer ball on colorful patches of dirt. There is, however, a reason the children in that image are almost always boys: in many parts of Africa girls don’t play much football. Why not?” (Pitch Invasion)

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