Why Does Eastern Africa Not Play Football?
By Bethsheba Achitsa Published December 11, 2009 What is more significant in football; winning the match, appearing at the event, or not making an appearance at all since you know that you will not win the game? East Africa seems to have chosen the last option and for the last eight decades that FIFA has held the World Cup tournament none of the countries that make up the East African region has ever featured. Not even as a guest. With Africa hosting the World Cup event for the first time in 2010, it would have been better to have representatives from all over the continent—west, east, centre, south and north—but, as it has turned out, none of the six representatives is from eastern Africa: Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique. Four—Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria—are from West Africa, one—Algeria—from North Africa and the other is hosts South Africa, representing the southern tip of the continent. The absence of Easter
