And so soon the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola that was heralded by an unprecedented armed attack on one of the competing teams will come to an end this weekend. It has been days of battle of nerves and sinews involving 16 crack teams from around the continent and in the final analysis we are left with four teams in the medal zone, three of them upsetting the experts’ predictions. more »

Andre Dede Ayew, Ghana’s teenage football sensation can be described as a real chip off the block in every sense of the phrase. Son of the legendary Abedi Ayew Pele, easily the brightest Ghanaian soccer gem in the 80s, Dede has given every indication that he would like to step into the illustrious shoes of his legendary father who played for the Black Stars at the age of 17 in Ghana’s fourth Cup of Nations triumph in Libya in 1982. more »