With Ivory Coast bowing out, Ghana now carries the aspirations of a whole continent. A huge responsibility on the shoulders of the Black Stars.
The first African nation to become a democracy. The first country to broach the concept of Pan Africanism under Kwame Nkrumah. The first African country to organize a football league. The founding member of the CAF.
Ghana is the African country most intimately connected with the American civil rights movement of the 1960s with Marcus Garvey setting up the Black Star, a clandestine shipping line that would repatriate African Americans back to the homeland. The shipping line became the inspiration behind the name of the national soccer team.
Read Soccerblog’s “Ghana is the crucible of African soccer” >>