Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
New Straits Times - Google News Archive Search
New Straits Times - Google News Archive Search
THE FINE ART OF ROTTEN ENGLISH (Cameron Duodu reports on an interview with the late Ogoni writer, KEN SARO-WIWA, conducted at the time Saro-Wiwa published his novel, Sozaboy, in 1987.)
THE FINE ART OF ROTTEN ENGLISH (Cameron Duodu reports on an interview with the late Ogoni writer, KEN SARO-WIWA, conducted at the time Saro-Wiwa published his novel, Sozaboy, in 1987.)
Friday, 23 April 2010
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Last Word
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Last Word
CAMERON DUODU'S RECOLLECTIONS OF BISHOP ABEL MUZOREWA ARE TOWARDS THE END OF THE TAPE (LISTEN NOW 23/04/2010)
CAMERON DUODU'S RECOLLECTIONS OF BISHOP ABEL MUZOREWA ARE TOWARDS THE END OF THE TAPE (LISTEN NOW 23/04/2010)
Thursday, 15 April 2010
FT.com / Africa - Obituary: Zimbabwe’s first black PM
FT.com / Africa - Obituary: Zimbabwe’s first black PM
(it is good to see some of your work recycled by others!==See my earlier obituary of Muzorewa and compare and contrast!!)
(it is good to see some of your work recycled by others!==See my earlier obituary of Muzorewa and compare and contrast!!)
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Monday, 12 April 2010
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
is messi the best ever? by cameron duodu
A propos the Barca-versus-Arsenal argument: there are always certain factors that must be regarded as "given" in an argument.
It is a given that most football clubs try to have a solid defence, a solid midfield and a relatively credible or passable attack. The ones that shine are those that, given the basic good team elements, still possess one of the great names we know. The German World Cup team of 1974, for instance, with Gerd Muller as main striker, wasn't overwhelmingly good. But Muller's perfectly balanced physique, his strength and his opportunism won the World Cup for them.
Again, I had never regarded Leeds as anything much -- until Tony Yeboah got there. They suddenly shone --on the backs of three or four amazing goals from Yeboah. The fans created a song for him! When he fell out with the manager and left, that was the beginning of the end. Today Leeds is almost always falling into the relegation zone somewhere in the lower leagues.
Barca has always been good, but their attractive football has been built around great players -- most recently, Ronaldinho, who has now been eclipsed in their annals by Messi. That's the way it is. Until a few months ago, the question was not which is the better team in Spain, Real or Barca, but who is the better player, Messi or Christiaan Ronaldo. Real also once made us ask: Roberto Carlos or Ronaldo? And, of course, we can never forget Rivaldo at his peak in Barca.
If we were sitting under a neem tree, with glasses going to and from our lips, we could debate this all day and late into the night! The Internet is a poor substitute!
It is a given that most football clubs try to have a solid defence, a solid midfield and a relatively credible or passable attack. The ones that shine are those that, given the basic good team elements, still possess one of the great names we know. The German World Cup team of 1974, for instance, with Gerd Muller as main striker, wasn't overwhelmingly good. But Muller's perfectly balanced physique, his strength and his opportunism won the World Cup for them.
Again, I had never regarded Leeds as anything much -- until Tony Yeboah got there. They suddenly shone --on the backs of three or four amazing goals from Yeboah. The fans created a song for him! When he fell out with the manager and left, that was the beginning of the end. Today Leeds is almost always falling into the relegation zone somewhere in the lower leagues.
Barca has always been good, but their attractive football has been built around great players -- most recently, Ronaldinho, who has now been eclipsed in their annals by Messi. That's the way it is. Until a few months ago, the question was not which is the better team in Spain, Real or Barca, but who is the better player, Messi or Christiaan Ronaldo. Real also once made us ask: Roberto Carlos or Ronaldo? And, of course, we can never forget Rivaldo at his peak in Barca.
If we were sitting under a neem tree, with glasses going to and from our lips, we could debate this all day and late into the night! The Internet is a poor substitute!
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Life in 'Tin Can Town' for the South Africans evicted ahead of World Cup | World news | The Guardian
Life in 'Tin Can Town' for the South Africans evicted ahead of World Cup |
World news |
The Guardian
CAMERON'S COMMENT Very sad that President Jacob Zuma, who is so often touted as a "man of the people", should allow this to happen under his watch. He has two months to try and do something about it. Money is pouring into South African contractors' pockets like water, due to World Cup contracts. He should specially surcharge some of it to house the people who are being so inconvenienced by the staging of the World Cup. If the former apartheid Government had done this, the world would be up in arms protesting against it -- with Zuma leading the ANC section of the protesters with a banner proclaiming "The Poor Deserve Somewhere To Live In Dignity.".
World news |
The Guardian
CAMERON'S COMMENT Very sad that President Jacob Zuma, who is so often touted as a "man of the people", should allow this to happen under his watch. He has two months to try and do something about it. Money is pouring into South African contractors' pockets like water, due to World Cup contracts. He should specially surcharge some of it to house the people who are being so inconvenienced by the staging of the World Cup. If the former apartheid Government had done this, the world would be up in arms protesting against it -- with Zuma leading the ANC section of the protesters with a banner proclaiming "The Poor Deserve Somewhere To Live In Dignity.".
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