Ghana vs Mali: Inside the Match Where Football Met Geopolitics and Everyone Lost on Penalties
Accra’s Independence Square was already vibrating at tectonic levels when the Black Stars jogged out to face Mali’s Eagles last Thursday night, and somewhere between the first vuvuzela blast and the ninety-third, the match stopped being a mere AFCON qualifier and became a referendum on everything from Chinese soft-power loans to French uranium subsidies. In…