CNN just published a list of the eleven players who dominated and defined football in the 2000s. Samuel Eto’o of Inter Milan and Cameroon and probably the best footballer out of Africa, is the only continental player that made the list. That’s deserved. Eto’o, by the way, is also the official face of next June’s World Cup in South Africa.
A selection of news items, videos, music from and drive by commentary before I shut down for December 2009.
Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world’s leaders to sit for portraits. A number of African leaders obliged.
The historian John Edwin Mason’s photographs of Cape Town’s New Year’s Carnival.
Robbie Jansen is a key figure in what is referred to as South African, especially Cape Town, jazz.
