
Football inspires competition & inflames passions nowhere as strongly as in Africa. Travelling across thirteen countries from Cairo to the Cape journalist Steve Bloomfield meets players & fans politicians & rebel leaders & discovers the role that football has played in shaping the continent. He recounts how football has helped to prop up an authoritarian regime in Egypt end a conflict in Cote d Ivoire & provide a tiny ray of light in war-torn Somalia. Africa United is a superb modern-day portrait of Africa told through the game that unites it.