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| Karl |
Posted - Sep 02 2002 : 11:48:29 AM
Football:Jamaica to Ghana
Sun Aug 25 23:30:10 2002
66.119.33.135
Reverse connection, nothing new, Christians were recruited from Hanover to preach the gospel around 1800's in Ghana, it was also said they took the cocoa plant there too.
I only took one paragraph (exerts)of this extensive document.
"Modern sport
It was during the era of colonialism that modern sport was introduced into the developing countries by either the military, teachers, or missionaries come to spread the good word. Football, the world's most popular sport, was, for example, introduced to Africa, in Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) to be precise, towards the beginning of the last century. While the different expeditions landed at the coastal towns with their Bibles or musketeers, a certain Mr Briton, a teacher of Jamaican origin, took a football. So the first Africans to play, and barefoot at that, with a leather ball, were the pupils of the Cape Coast Government school. In the neighbouring country of Ivory Coast, it was an Afro-Caribbean sergeant by the name of Leprince who saw to the introduction of football in a school in Bingerville. Cricket, hockey and polo were only successful in British colonies with large Indian and Pakistani communities."
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