Word: nigerianism
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...Even more enlightening his reporting on the experiences of young African players on the margins of European football in his chapter on the "Black Carpathians." Here, he tracks the story of Edward Anyamkyegh, a Nigerian starlet playing at Karpaty Lviv, a Ukrainian team with a fiercely nationalist tradition. In the Soviet era, the Ukraine was recognized as the cradle of the Union's soccer talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer...
...accelerating migration of players across national boundaries is creating a few incongruities. Poland's star striker, for example, is Emmanuel Olisadebe, a Nigerian who'd gone to play for a Polish club side and had so impressed the country's football authorities that the government had fast-tracked him for citizenship in order to boost their prospects at the last World Cup. The irony is that although Olisadebe is still the mainstay of the Polish attack, he no longer even lives in Poland, having moved to a more lucrative gig for the Greek club Panathanaikos...
...line dividing Africa's Muslim north from its predominantly Christian south runs straight through the Nigerian state of Plateau. The boundary is normally hard to discern. For one thing, people in the same town can belong to different religions but work next to each other, cheer the same football team and even intermarry. But in Nigeria, every few years the divide becomes obvious and stark. Made desperate by poverty and joblessness, and often goaded by manipulative politicians, extremists on both sides go at each other in vicious battles. Plateau state, where cattle herders from the north and farmers from...
...country for 29 of the 44 years since independence. But since returning to democracy in 1999, Nigerians have been freer to vent their frustrations. More than 10,000 have died in clashes prompted by everything from Muslim protests at U.S. bombing in Afghanistan to the decision to hold the Miss World beauty pageant in Abuja, the capital. Many Nigerians argue that the real reason for the violence is not ethnic or religious division - most Nigerians have peacefully coexisted for centuries - but the scramble for scarce resources and political clout. Though Nigeria produces some 2.4 million barrels...
...scam was so prevalent online and in paper letters that the Nigerian Government published a statement officially denying any involvement. As of 1997, “successful” applications of this scam were costing gullible Americans something like $100 million annually, and just last month the Boston Herald reported that our own researcher Weldong Xu of Harvard Medical School gave $600,000 which he had collected from friends and colleagues for purported SARS research to 4-1-9 scammers from Lagos, with hopes that he’d earn back a cool $50 million to put back into...