(Originally published on Gef's football club)
Early September 2009, I read an interesting blog about the use of the para-normal in African football.
The blog said "there has long been a history of using far more extraordinary means to gain a psychological advantage over an opponent, to make one team feel invincible and the other quite neurotic. Voodoo. Miracles. Juju. Fetishism".
It was actually a review of a new book on African football entitled "Feet of Chameleon" by a British writer called Ian Hawkey. But it still managed to enrage a number of Africans and non-Africans about the off-handish way in which westerners treated the game as played in Africa.
But utterances by Cameroonians on football forums since the young defender Sébastien Bassong got injured playing for Cameroon and now for Tottenham have caused me to think that it is not westerners who spread these stories about African football and mysticism.
Africans are the guilty party. Cameroonians have taken it to another level with their attacks on Rigobert Song Bahanag on internet forums.
Continue reading bassong's injuries and supposed voodoo in african football
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