Africa was pillaged for centuries and the riches of the continent built many of the great cities of Europe.
The 2023 Women’s World Cup was disappointing for Canada and for several other perennial soccer powerhouses. Two other top 10 teams, Germany and Brazil, did not make it out of the group stage. Several other elite teams did not advance, and four-time World Cup Champions, the United States, were knocked out early in the elimination round.
Due to a global attitude of sexism, the history of the women’s tournament is much more recent than that of the Men’s World Cup. The first official Women’s World Cup did take place until 1991. For decades, the sport was dominated by teams from wealthy countries. The United States won four World Cups, Germany won two, and Japan and Norway each won one. Canada’s best finish was fourth place in 2003.
I moved to Africa in the early 1990s, and one of my jobs was to help organize sports activities for children and youth in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I had done similar work in North America, but the first thing that struck me was how unbelievably good the Congolese were at soccer. They grew up playing barefoot, playing wherever there was an open piece of ground.
Africa’s greatest resource is not its oil, its minerals, or its forests. It is its people. The exploitation continues to this day as foreign mining companies pay workers a pittance to pull resources out of the ground while they pay off criminals willing to bleed their own people.
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