From Diego Maradona to Weah, it has been all about stereotype. In addition to the writer’s indoctrination into leftism and conflict-breeding worldview of politics, he wrongly cited that footballers remain footballers in his country. Plato’s society is ideally static, and there is no place for people like Weah to make such a political breakthrough. While warring factions destroyed the country in the 1990s, Weah was the sole consolation of a dying people. The mere fact that Weah has been elected president is a victory for footballers and sportspeople and, more generally, all those being discriminated against, stereotyped and stigmatized.

Source: Front Page Africa January 19, 2018 20:15 UTC