Mama Shujaa

Lovers of soccer, fanatics, Africans in the Diaspora, there is an outlet for your pent up demand for the good game. It is crunch time, qualifier matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and CAF's Cup of Nations (Angola 2010), are on this weekend. And AllSoccerAfrica in partnership with Sport Five and My African Football presents the matches to you LIVE online. Will both Cameroon and Nigeria (the giants of the African game) get kicked out of contention? Can Ghana and Ivory lock-up their spots? Click HERE for all the action this weekend as Africa's finest do battle. Saturday Sept 5th. Malawi v Guinea 8.30 am EST. Rwanda v Egypt 9.30 am EST. Gabon v Cameroon 10.30 am EST. Ivory Coast v Burkina-Faso 1.00 pm EST. Sunday Sept 6th. Mozambique v Kenya 9.00am EST. Benin v Mali 11.00am EST. Togo v Morocco 11.30am, EST. Nigeria v Tunisia 12.00 noon, EST. Ghana v Sudan 1.00pm, EST. Algeria v Zambia 5.00pm EST. All matches streamed live at AllSoccerAfrica....yeah! Check your local listi...

Our children give us plenty to brag about. As immigrant parents from Kenya and Nigeria, we trust that we have distilled the essence of all that is special in our heritage and poured it into their souls. In our household we have always raised questions like: Do you know what Utu is? It is the embodiment of you. It captures where you come from, your intangible source of strength. The God in you. Your Chi (Ibo). We have taught them that their birthplace, America, must not dilute their heritage. I addressed this in my very first post here . Our beautiful ones. A compassionate young lady, a college graduate currently employed as she anticipates graduate school. A handsome hard-working freshman in college. And our kitindamimba [last born], a bright, athletic fourth-grader, who loves the beautiful game. As you can see, he demonstrates incredible pace and skill in this video (he was only 5 here). His father says that this one of the special things he has passed on to him. Labda?? [May...