Francis Ngwa-Niba's blog
Africa Drain: Why Cameroonian Olympian Francoise Mbango changed nationality
This past month, the news, not fully unexpected though, filtered in. Africa has lost yet another talented athlete. This time the Cameroonian double Olympics Triple Jump medalist, Francoise Mbango Etone, has finally changed nationality to France.
Dignity and privacy is also an African Virtue… Semenya was offered none
I saw this coming. Since the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) inavertedly revealed that they were carrying out a gender verification test on 18-year-old winning athlete Caster Semenya, they committed the mistake that could have effectively ruined the life and athletic career of a young promising girl from rural South Africa.
Heroine welcome for Semenya, but is this the end of her humiliation by the media?
Women's world 800m champion Caster Semenya is back home in South Africa and in familiar turf, but the western press and their 'confidentiality breakers' aren't done yet.
Gender, races and when a woman could be a man
For an 18-year-old, the psychological stress and mental torture 800m South African athlete Caster Semenya is going through is unfair.
