THE HERO OF AFCON 2025 IS PAPE THIAW

Africa’s unique foibles must be confronted by unusual solutions. If Patrice Motsepe of CAF and

the central-officiating little Negroes believe they are inferior to the Arabs and they must skew the

outcomes of games in favour of Morocco, then the “big” Negroes must duly protest such injustice

even if the approach is not “politically correct.” Shaka the Zulu did not stick to political correctness at the expense of the interest of the wellbeing of his folks. Must Morocco as host be the champions

of Africa? Brazil was knocked out of the 2014 Mundial before the final and that was alright. If

Pape Thiaw of Senegal had not protested, the Teranga Lions would not be champions of Africa:

one righteously indignant incidence cascaded and boiled over into the other and ultimately the

Panenka failed Brahim Diaz (c’mon, is Mr. Diaz African?). CAF must understand we live in a

world where racial awareness is now in the front burner. Don’t these bunch know history and the travails the black people suffered at the hands of Arab slavers? Millions of Negroes were taken away into slavery by the Arabs and this lot trekked through the Sahara on foot. There are no traces of them today except a few scattered descendants here and there who are given the “dishonourable” task of beheading “criminals” in Mecca on Fridays. The El-Kaabis of Morocco are unskilled carpenters

who are generally unschooled. Their forebears were forcibly snatched from Mali. And

sold by King Mansa Musa, too. The Americas have explanations for the black people they took

away: did not Michael Jackson give us pure joy? Even the presence of Arabs in the African

continent is an anomaly. Surely, it was prophetic insight from me to suggest the split of AFCON

into a “Negro AFCON” for Black Africa and a “North Africa Cup” for the Arab interlopers.

The Villains of AFCON. One, Sadio Mane: He was not the captain of the day and he was not supposed to hang around

waiting for entreaties to be made to him when his coach and the true captains have walked

out. Mane, being Saudi-based and Saudi-brainwashed was willing to give up the AFCON

prize to Morocco. Edouard Mendy put him to shame.

Two, Claude LeRoy: The famed maned gaffer had no business pleading with Sadio Mane to

convince the Teranga Lions to resume play. It was obvious Teranga Lions were gonna lose

the AFCON prize. Happily, it did not turn out that way, by the quirkiest of circumstance.

That Panenka, uh?

Three, El-Hadji Diouf: That man lacking veritable Negro pigmentation had no business talking

Sadio Mane to convince his riled teammates to resume play. In his day, Diouf would have

raised bloody ruckus at the injustice meted out to the Teranga Lions. Four, Patrice Motsepe: Him the Big Fish who rigged it all for Morocco by skewed referee- selection process. To Mr. Motsepe, was AFCON 2025 about commerce and not scruples?

Did not Morocco gain enough coverage and exposure to ensure a thriving tourism trade

after AFCON? If Mr. Motsepe rigged it for Morocco, how’d it gonna be at AFCON 2027

with three countries as host? Mr. Motsepe has not read his history books thoroughly. Sports

do start regional wars. In the face of this faux pas by a South African, the centre referee

from South Africa did a great job in being fair and upright. Issa Sy of Senegal was the best

of the lot. Mr. Motsepe must take pride in his Bantu roots and not kowtow to the Arabs.

Sunday Adole Jonah,

Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State