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home > fellows' stories > spring 2003 > uganda

African Soccer Rivalry

by Jessie Graham, Spring 2003 IRP Fellow
Reprinted with permission of "Only a Game"

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Just around the time that Rwanda and Uganda threatened to go to war against each other earlier this year, the two neighboring African nations had a more benign rivalry brewing. The Uganda Cranes and Rwanda Bees are vying for a spot in the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia. On March 29th, reporter Jessie Graham followed a caravan of Ugandans to a qualifying match in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, where sport, and magic, superseded politics.

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