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The 2010 World Soccer started today June 11 in South Africa. Scores: South Africa 1, Mexico 1 and Uruguay 0, France 0. Represented in the 2010 World Soccer are 32 nations/countries including six African countries – South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast. Every 4 years the World Soccer aka Football, the most popular sports in the world in played. Historic about the 2010 World Football is that it is played in South Africa, a country/nation that once was shunned by most people! Today people from all over the world are in South Africa in Africa to honor the sports of Football. This is a very joyous moment for several people (myself included): About 25 years ago, I obtained a passport from Cameroon. Thrilled to be the bearer of a passport, I immediately thumbed through the pages and I am halted by the words on one of the pages: Not Valid for Entry in South Africa. Why? I asked. I can go anywhere in the world but not South Africa in Africa. Why? I went to Elementary School in Cameroon. Though we breezed through some African and World history, I do not think that most of us knew the exact implications and/or magnitude of topics such as slavery and apartheid. To us slavery meant asking the same person to do the dishes, sweep, fetch water and cook; and we never heard or used the word racism. It was not until I came to the US that I knew of and understood slavery and apartheid. Cameroon is officially a bilingual English-French speaking country/nation, thus making the country attractive to other Africans and people from other Continents - seeing one needs no interpreter to get by if one can speak English or French. When I was in Cameroon, we schooled and lived peacefully with Africans from Senegal, Nigeria, Tchad, Ethiopia, Angola, Namibia, Ghana and people from France, China, Britain, US, Germany, etc. People were simply people and we would even go lengths to make others comfortable. Houston and NewYork, I thus far think, are the few places that could compare in diversity to Cameroon. I still have my 25-year old Cameroon passport and guess I would have to obtain a new passport, were I to travel to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup! Thus, it is with great delight that I celebrate this 2010 World Cup and wish all the people gathered today in Africa a wonderful and healthy stay! | |||||||||
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